Greater Flamingoes Taking Off

Phoenicopteriformes

Place: Marismas del Odiel, near Huelva, Andalucia
Date: 14 June 2015.

[Phoenicopterus roseus, Family Phoenicopteridae, Order Phoenicopteriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Greater flamingo]

The sound of the greater flamingo (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist José Carlos Sires)

Distribution and sightings of the greater flamingo across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Spoonbill Catching a Fish

Pelecaniformes

Place: La Rocina, Andalucia
Date: 14 June 2015.

[Platalea leucorodia, Family Threskiornithidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian spoonbill]

The sound of the Eurasian spoonbill (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Frank Lambert)

Distribution and sightings of the spoonbill across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).