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  • Common Redstart
    Redstarts are immediately identifiable by their bright orange-red tails, which they often quiver. Breeding males look smart, with slate grey upper parts, black faces and wings, and an orange rump and chest. Females and young are duller. Redstarts 'bob' in a very robin-like manner, but spend little time at ground level. It is included on the Amber List as species with unfavourable conservation status in Europe where it is declining.
    Scotland
  • Chinese Spotbill
    Description to come soon!
    WWT Slimbridge
  • Pied Avocet
    Description to come soon!
    Pagham Harbor
  • 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.
    Kenfig NR
  • Falcated Duck
    The Falcated duck is a duck mostly found in eastern Asia. Its strongly migratory, spending its winter in large flocks in southeast Asia. Because of the popularity of this bird in captivity, the origins of this duck are unknown. This is a duck of the lowland wetlands, such as meadows or lakes, feeding or grazing on vegetation.
    WWT Slimbridge
  • Barn Swallow
    Description to come soon!
    Minnesota, USA
  • Pied Avocets
    Description to come soon!
    Pagham Harbor
  • Great Blue Heron - Juvenile
    Description to come soon!
    Minnesota, USA
  • Osprey
    Description to come soon!
    Crex Meadows NR, USA
  • Blue Jay
    Description to come soon!
    Minnesota, USA
  • Wheatear
    The wheatear is a small mainly ground-dwelling bird. It hops or runs on the ground. It is blue-grey above with black wings and white below with an orange flush to the breast. It has a black cheek. In flight it shows a white rump and a black 'T' shape on its tail. It is a summer visitor and passage migrant. Birds breed mainly in western and northern Britain and western Ireland, although smaller numbers do breed in southern and eastern England. It winters in central Africa.
    Skomer Island
  • Eurasian Siskin
    Description to come soon!
    Loch Garten RSPB
  • Comb Duck
    Description to come soon!
    WWT Swansea
  • Tufted Duck
    The Tufted duck is a year-round resident here in the UK, and in winter we're also home to many migrants from further north. This diving duck has an estimated worldwide population of over a million birds, spread throughout much of eurasia. This bird in the winter months can also be found on the east coast of North America. </br></br> The only other similar bird is the Ring-necked duck in North America.
    Cosmeston Lakes
  • Redshank
    Description to come soon!
    RSPB Titchwell Marsh NR
  • Mute Swan
    Description to come soon!
    Pagham Harbour
  • 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.
    Pagham Harbour
  • Sandhill Cranes
    Description to come soon!
    Crex Meadows NR, USA
  • Great Tit
    Description to come soon!
    Wyllie
  • Mute Swan
    Description to come soon!
    Cosmeston
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20-June-2013 Animals from Berwick upon Tweed & Scotland 2013 Trip Added
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