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British Birds - Miscellaneous 04
Very uncommon in the UK until the mid 1900s - now one of our most often seen birds. Do you recognise it?

British Birds - Miscellaneous 04

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements. Birds are social; they communicate using visual signals and through calls and songs, and participate in social behaviours, including cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of predators.

1 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Terry Ross
Osprey
Goldcrest
Twite
Collared Dove
  • Group: Osprey
  • Binomial: Pandion haliaetus
  • Order: Falconiformes
  • Family: Pandionidae
  • Status: Breeding Summer Visitor
  • Sometimes known as the sea hawk or fish eagle.
  • It is unusual in that it is a single living species that occurs nearly worldwide.
  • Has vision that is adapted to detecting underwater objects from the air.
2 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://www.photomecan.eu/
Lesser Whitethroat
Twite
Common Pied Oystercatcher
Collared Dove
  • Group: Old World Warblers
  • Binomial: Sylvia curruca
  • Order: Passeriformes
  • Family: Sylviidae
  • Status: Breeding Summer Visitor
  • Unlike many typical warblers, the sexes are almost identical.
  • It is quite skulking and often only noticed when it gives its rattling song, or 'tacking' call.
  • Best located by its song and calls.
3 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Sergey Yeliseev
Goldcrest
Osprey
Great Grey Shrike
Shore Lark
  • Group: Shrikes
  • Binomial: Lanius excubitor
  • Order: Passeriformes
  • Family: Laniidae
  • Status: Scarce Winter Visitor
  • They are very territorial so you're unlikely to see more than one at once.
  • Are often 'mobbed' by other birds which recognise them as dangerous predators.
  • The black mask and grey plumage are distinctive.
4 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://photo-natur.de/
Ring Ouzel
Goldcrest
Shore Lark
Lesser Whitethroat
  • Group: Larks
  • Binomial: Eremophila alpestris
  • Order: Passeriformes
  • Family: Alaudidae
  • Status: Scarce Winter Visitor And Passage Migrant
  • This is a bird of open ground.
  • They are almost exclusively coastal birds.
  • Watch for them shuffling their way across shingle and sandy beaches.
5 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Horia Varlan
Shore Lark
Common Pied Oystercatcher
Ring Ouzel
Collared Dove
  • Group: Pigeons and Doves
  • Binomial: Streptopelia decaocto
  • Order: Columbiformes
  • Family: Columbidae
  • Status: Resident Breeding Species
  • Adults have a black and white collar around the back of the neck but this is missing in young birds.
  • Very uncommon in the UK until the mid 1900's - now one of our most often seen birds.
6 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Unknown
Shore Lark
Twite
Common Pied Oystercatcher
Skylark
  • Group: Finches
  • Binomial: Carduelis flavirostris
  • Order: Passeriformes
  • Family: Fringillidae
  • Status: Resident Breeding Species
  • Treeless moorland is favoured for breeding.
  • This species can form large flocks outside the breeding season, sometimes mixed with other finches on coasts and salt marshes.
7 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of 33138035@N07
Ring Ouzel
Goldcrest
Common Pied Oystercatcher
Shore Lark
  • Group: Kinglets
  • Binomial: Regulus regulus
  • Order: Passeriformes.
  • Family: Regulidae
  • Status: Resident Breeding Species
  • Called the 'king of the birds' in European folklore.
  • The female is reluctant to leave the nest when disturbed, and has been recorded to stay in the nest when it is moved, or even when it is being held.
8 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of http://photo-natur.de/
Ring Ouzel
Osprey
Twite
Great Grey Shrike
  • Group: Thrushes
  • Binomial: Turdus torquatus
  • Order: Passeriformes
  • Family: Turdidae
  • Status: Breeding Summer Visitor
  • It is primarily a bird of the uplands, breeding mainly in steep sided valleys from near sea level in Scotland up to 1,200m in the Cairngorms.
  • The young are fed a diet consisting mainly of earthworms and beetles.
9 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of www.bjornfree.com/galleries.html
Ring Ouzel
Collared Dove
Common Pied Oystercatcher
Shore Lark
  • Group: Oystercatchers
  • Binomial: Haematopus ostralegus
  • Order: Charadriiformes
  • Family: Haematopodidae
  • Status: Resident Breeding Species
  • They are obvious and noisy plover-like birds, with black and white plumage, red legs and strong broad red bills.
  • The bills are used for smashing or prising open molluscs such as mussels or for finding earthworms.
10 .
What is the name of this bird?
Photograph courtesy of Daniel Pettersson
Goldcrest
Twite
Shore Lark
Skylark
  • Group: Larks
  • Binomial: Alauda arvensis
  • Order: Passeriformes
  • Family: Alaudidae
  • Status: Resident Breeding Species
  • It is renowned for its song flight.
  • The male bird rises vertically from the ground high in the air where it remains stationary for several minutes on fluttering wings before parachuting back down to the ground.

 

Author:  Sarah Garratty

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