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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 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.

3 .

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.

4 .

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.

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 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.

7 .

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.

8 .

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.

9 .

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.