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  • Blue Jay
    Description to come soon!
    Minnesota, USA
  • Atlantic Puffin
    Description to come soon!
    Skomer Island
  • Crested Screamer
    The Southern Screamer, also known as the Crested Screamer, is found in the swamps, estuaries and pools of South America. These birds are monogamous, mating for life, which can be up to 15 yrs. The chicks of these birds leave the nest as soon as they hatch, but the parents will take care of them during the fledging period. This bird is non-migratory despite being an excellent flier.
    WWT Slimbridge
  • Great-crested Grebe
    The Great-Crested Grebe is an excellent swimmer and diver, the young able to do so almost immediately after hatching. The adults are unmistakable in summer with bright rusty colors on their head and neck. The hatchlings are striped black and white, much like a zebra. It is the largest grebe in europe.The species was almost hunted to extinction in the 19th century, but thanks to the RSPB, it is now a common sight.
    Roath Park
  • Barnacle Goose
    Description to come soon!
    Roath Park, Cardiff
  • Stonechat
    Stonechats are robin sized birds. Males have striking black heads with white around the side of their neck, orange-red breasts and a mottled brown back. Females lack the male's black head, but have brown backs and an orange tinge to their chests. Birds are frequently seen flicking their wings while perched, often doing so on the tops of low bushes. As its name suggests, birds utter a sharp loud call that sound like two stones being tapped together. They breed in western and southern parts of the UK, but disperse more widely in winter.
    Goldcliff NR
  • Gannet
    Adults are large and bright white with black wingtips. They are distinctively shaped with a long neck and long pointed beak, long pointed tail, and long pointed wings. At sea they flap and then glide low over the water, often travelling in small groups. They feed by flying high and circling before plunging into the sea. It breeds in significant numbers at only a few localities and so is an Amber List species. Biggest mainland breeding colony at RSPB's Bempton Cliffs. Two mainland colonies - at Bempton and Troup Head, Scotland. Big island colonies on St Kilda, the Northern Isles and Bass Rock in Scotland and Grassholm in Wales.
    Ireland
  • Canada Goose
    Description to come soon!
    Roath Park
  • Bald Eagle
    Description to come soon!
    Crex Meadows NR, USA
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak
    Description to come soon!
    Minnesota, USA
  • European Goldfinch
    Description to come soon!
    Wyllie
  • Song Sparrow
    Description to come soon!
    USA
  • Atlantic Puffin
    Description to come soon!
    Skomer Island
  • Solitary Sandpiper
    Description to come soon!
    Crex Meadows NR, USA
  • Herring Gull
    Herring gulls are large, noisy gulls found throughout the year around our coasts and inland around rubbish tips, fields, large reservoirs and lakes, especially during winter.They have suffered moderate declines over the past 25 years and over half of their UK breeding population is confined to fewer than ten sites.
    Ireland
  • Mandarin Duck
    Description to come soon!
    WWT Swansea
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
    Description to come soon!
    Pagham Harbor
  • American Wigeon
    The American Wigeon is the american counter part to the Eurasian Wigeon, and a widespread breeder in much of North America. It is a rare but regular vagrant to western Europe. This bird groups in tremendous flocks outside of the breeding season, often seen in company with the American Coot. You will typically find this bird in open wetlands grazing on plants.
    WWT Slimbridge
  • Great Cormorant
    The Great Cormorant is a very large black bird. With a longish tail and yellow throat patch, the adults have white thigh patches in the breeding season. It can be distinguished from the very similar Shag by its lack of green tinge and lack of crest. An extremely wide spread bird, its breeding range extends all over europe and asia, south across africa, to the atlantic coast of North America.
    Cosmeston
  • Northern Cardinal
    Description to come soon!
    Minnesota, USA
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Latest Updates
10-Oct-2015 New sort option "Date Added" now available to show latest additions. E.g. Birds
13-Jun-2015 Wildlife photos from our first visit to the Republic of Ireland added
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01-Jan-2014 Visit to Forest Farm pics added
01-Jan-2014 Norfolk pics Added
01-Jan-2014 Minnesota 2013 pics Added
20-June-2013 Animals from Berwick upon Tweed & Scotland 2013 Trip Added
20-June-2013 Birds from Berwick upon Tweed & Scotland Trip Added
02-Apr-2013 Pagham Harbor 2013 Trip Added


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