"""pettychaps"". These names were often shared with other warblers including the blackcap, common whitethroat and common chiffchaff. Garden warbler The garden warbler (""Sylvia borin"") is a common and widespread small bird that breeds in most of Europe and in western Asia. It is a plain, long-winged and long-tailed typical warbler with brown upperparts and dull white underparts; the sexes are similar and juveniles resemble the adults. Its two subspecies differ only slightly and interbreed where their ranges overlap. Due to its lack of distinguishing features, this species can be confused with a number of other unstreaked warblers. The garden warbler's"
"breeding populations of a number of species of birds that are listed in the United Kingdom's Red Data Book (Birds), including three—merlin, Eurasian golden plover and short-eared owl—that are listed in Annex 1 of the European Commission's Birds Directive as requiring special protection. The flora of the area includes a number of species that are scarce locally or nationally. Bollihope, Pikestone, Eggleston and Woodland Fells Bollihope, Pikestone, Eggleston and Woodland Fells is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Teesdale district of west County Durham, England. It covers a broad expanse of moorland to the north and east of"
"Granton Garden The Granton Garden is an organic wildlife garden in the Granton area of Edinburgh, at the home of the musician and gardener Fraser Drummond. There are over 200 species in one small walled garden. Drummond has recorded 29 bird species in the garden as well as fox, hedgehog, squirrel and a colony of frogs. It has appeared in the BBC television programme ""The Beechgrove Garden"" and in ""The Scotsman"". and has regularly been open to the public as part of Scotland's Garden Scheme. The garden is 90 feet by 40 feet and divided into three areas: woodland, rockery"
"the UK, has been recorded at the site. The open heath and grassland no longer forms a breeding site for the small heath butterfly (""Coenonympha pamphilus""), whose numbers are declining in the UK. Sixty species of spider have been recorded at the site. Sound Heath forms an important breeding site for a wide range of birds. Locally rare species include the Eurasian sparrowhawk (""Accipiter nisus"") and the willow tit (""Parus montanus""). Among the other species that have been observed here are the moorhen, reed bunting, turtle dove and willow warbler, the tawny, little and barn owls, and the greater spotted,"
"Canada geese, ruddy duck, mandarin duck, rose-ringed parakeet, gadwall, coot and red kite. Despite the acres of concrete, hundreds of thousands of motor vehicles, and more than ten million people, London still boasts many excellent birding sites. Bill visits Trafalgar Square, Regent's Park, Lee Valley country park, Wraysbury gravel pits, Rainham Marshes and the Chilterns. Species seen: bananaquit, palm tanager, blue-grey tanager, spectacled thrush, ruddy ground dove, yellow oriole, least grebe, southern lapwing, white-winged swallow, pied water-tyrant, golden-headed manakin, bay-headed tanager, white-bearded manakin, laughing gull, royal tern, large-billed tern, cattle egret, black skimmer, common potoo, scarlet ibis, white-necked jacobin, tufted"
"Harrisson was instrumental in the organization of pioneering surveys of the great crested grebe. Increased mobility of birdwatchers ensured that books like ""Where to Watch Birds"" by John Gooders became best-sellers. By the 1960s air-travel became feasible and long distance holiday destinations opened up with the result that by 1965, Britain's first birding tour company, ""Ornitholidays"" was started by Lawrence Holloway. Travelling far away also led to problems in name usage, British birds like ""wheatear"", ""heron"" and ""swallow"" needed adjectives to differentiate them in places where there were several related species. The falling cost of air-travel made flying to remote"
"which monitors the birds in the valley. Breeding birds include common chiffchaff (""Phylloscopus collybita""), common whitethroat (""Sylvia communis""), dunnock (""Prunella modularis""), Eurasian blackcap (""Sylvia atricapilla""), Eurasian wren (""Troglodytes troglodytes"") and sedge warbler (""Acrocephalus schoenobaenus""). Other birds found include brambling (""Fringilla montifringilla""), cirl bunting (""Emberiza cirlus""), common grasshopper warbler (""Locustella naevia""), Eurasian siskin (""Spinus spinus""), lesser redpoll (""Acanthis cabaret"") and subalpine warbler (""Sylvia cantillans""). Rareties ringed in the autumn of 2014 were aquatic warbler (""Acrocephalus paludicola""), barred warbler (""Sylvia nisoria"") and paddyfield warbler (""Acrocephalus agricola""). A first for Britain occurred on 8 October 2008 with the trapping, and the measuring of"
"capercaillie, but does not succeed, not helped by the miserable ranger: ""You don't always get what you want Bill."" ""True, but I would still have liked to see a Caper!"" The British Birdwatching Fair: the event of the year that any keen enthusiast should visit Species seen: great crested grebe, moorhen, coot, grey heron, cormorant, tree sparrow, common chaffinch, greenfinch, swallow, sand martin, and house martin. Experience migration on the east coast. Species seen: Arctic tern, guillemot, razorbill, puffin, whitethroat, little stint, curlew sandpiper and knot. Bill visits the Farne Islands, via Yorkshire, to North Norfolk, in search of migrating"
"willow ptarmigan, the female takes all responsibility for nesting and caring for the chicks, as is typical with gamebirds. The distinctive British form of willow ptarmigan, the red grouse (""Lagopus lagopus scotica"") has sometimes been considered a separate species, ""L. scotica"", but this is no longer accepted. Two prehistoric species and two paleosubspecies are only known from fossils: Lagopus Lagopus is a small genus of birds in the grouse subfamily commonly known as ptarmigans (). The genus contains three living species with numerous described subspecies, all living in tundra or cold upland areas. The genus name ""Lagopus"" is derived from"
"""skopos"", ""seeker"" (from ""skopeo"", ""to watch""), and the specific ""trochilus"" is from ""trokhilos"", ""wren"". Before the English name was standardised to willow warbler by William Yarrell in 1843, it was sometimes called ""willow wren"". Willow warbler The willow warbler (""Phylloscopus trochilus"") is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia. It is strongly migratory, with almost all of the population wintering in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is a bird of open woodlands with trees and ground cover for nesting, including most importantly"
"nidus-avis""), violet helleborine (""Epipactis purpurata""), the extreme rarity ""E."" x ""schulzei"" (first British record here, 1931), and green-flowered helleborine (""E. phyllanthes""). Various rare molluscs and insects have been recorded. Butterflies on the Common include the Duke of Burgundy (""Hamearis lucina""), silver-washed fritillary (""Argynnis paphia"") and purple emperor (""Apatura iris""). The avifauna includes most of the species typical of broad-leaved woodland in southern England, such as sparrowhawk (""Accipter nisus""), stock dove (""Columba oenas""), tawny owl (""Strix aluco""), European green woodpecker (""Picus viridis""), great spotted woodpecker (""Dendrocopos major""), garden warbler (""Sylvia borin""), blackcap (""S. atricapilla""), chiffchaff (""Phylloscopus collybita""), spotted flycatcher (""Muscicapa striata""),"
"(""Falco subbuteo""), European stonechat (""Saxicola rubecola""), common redstart (""Phoenicurus phoenicurus"") and tree pipit (""Anthus sylvestris""). As in much of Britain common snipe (""Gallinago gallinago"") and meadow pipit (""Anthus trivialis"") are common as wintering birds, but in the Forest they still also breed in many of the bogs and heaths respectively. Woodland birds include wood warbler (""Phylloscopus sibilatrix""), stock dove (""Columba oenas""), European honey buzzard (""Pernis apivorus"") and northern goshawk (""Accipiter gentilis""). Common buzzard (""Buteo buteo"") is very common and common raven (""Corvus corax"") is spreading. Birds seen more rarely include red kite (""Milvus milvus""), wintering great grey shrike (""Lanius exubitor"")"
"the wild boar included. The Forest of Dean is known for its birds; pied flycatchers, redstarts, wood warblers and hawfinches can be seen at RSPB Nagshead. The mixed forest supports Britain's best concentration of goshawks and a viewing site at New Fancy is manned during February and March. Peregrine falcons can be seen from the viewpoint at Symonds Yat rock. Mandarin ducks, which nest in the trees, and reed warblers can be seen at Cannop Ponds and Cannop Brook, running from the ponds through Parkend, is famed for its dippers. Butterflies of note are the small pearl-bordered fritillary, wood white"
"bat. About 420 species of birds have been found in Wales. Red kites and ospreys are a ""signature species"" of Wales. Dippers, choughs, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, short-eared owls, Manx shearwaters, whimbrel and plovers are also common. Montagu's harrier (""Circus pygargus""), a rare species in Britain, has several nesting places in Wales. Red grouse (""Lagopus lagopus scotica""), once a common species, has reduced population dramatically due to human hunting. Red grouse can be found at the extreme north part of Wales. King eider (""Somateria spectabilis"") is also heavily hunted for its feathers. Adders, common lizards (try Oxwich bay) and grass snakes"
"sphagnum and other mosses can be found along with liverworts, Hare's-tail Cotton-grass, round-leaved sundew and bog asphodel and in the valley bottoms, many different sedges, bogbean and pale butterwort all grow. A large variety of bird species can be found on Dartmoor including ones that have declined elsewhere in the UK, such as skylark and snipe, or are even rare nationally, such as the ring ouzel and the cuckoo. There are internationally important populations of meadow pipit and stonechat. Woodland birds include a number of migrant species, like the pied flycatcher, the wood warbler or the common redstart. Mammals found"
"a type characterised by the widespread occurrence of Sweet Vernal Grass (""Anthoxanthum odoratum""), Crested Dog's-tail (""Cynosurus cristatus""), Cowslip (""Primula veris"") and Green-winged Orchid (""Orchis morio""). A total of 74 different species have so far been recorded. This site is one of only 3 localities in Britain in which the grass ""Gaudinia fragilis"" is a prominent feature of the sward. Barrington Hill Meadows Barrington Hill Meadows () is a 16.1 hectare (39.5 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, England, notified in 1987. Barrington Hill Meadows, 2 km west of the A358, midway between the villages of Windmill Hill"
"white willow, crack willow and osier. In the area of rough grassland the nationally rare swamp meadow grass may be found. Woodland trees include alder and ash as well as willow. Nationally rare species supported include greater dodder which parasitises nettle. There is also tastless water-pepper, small water pepper, mudwort and needle spike rush. This is the only known site in Gloucestershire for small water pepper, mudwort and needle spike rush. Narrow-leaved water plantain, keeled barlic (""Allium carinatus""), glaucous bulrush (""Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani"") and sea club rush (""Scirpus maritimus"") are also recorded. Birds include mallard, coot, red warbler and sedge warbler."
"pike, which eat planktivorous fish, continuing to control their numbers. These effects tend to create a stable ecosystem where low growing underwater plants dominate. The Broads are Britain's largest protected wetland and are home to a wealth of birdlife. Amongst the species seen are mallard, coot, moorhen, great crested grebe, greylag goose, Canada goose, Egyptian goose, grey heron, marsh harrier, cormorant, kestrel, sparrowhawk and bittern. The scarce Cetti's warbler breeds in the broads and breeding common cranes are found in the area. Among the rare insects are the Norfolk hawker, a species of dragonfly, and the Old World swallowtail butterfly"
"sighted included yellow warbler, spotted sandpiper, barn swallows, and great egret. In May 2014, The New York Times featured a week-long ""Q. and A. About Birds in New York City"" in which Willow answered readers' questions. However, the Times commented that ""Mr. Willow...describes himself less as a birder and more of a storyteller and interpreter of human ecology, which explores the relationship between people and their environments."" Willow lives in Brooklyn, in an urban collective, which attempts to live sustainably. In 2010, the environmental news and commentary magazine Grist quoted Willow as saying, ""Farming isn't for everyone, but we can"
"More than 100 different species of bird have been recorded in surveys over the length of the canal, of which 38 could be classified as specialist waterway birds, including grey heron (""Ardea cinerea""), reed bunting (""Emberiza schoeniclus"") and common kingfisher (""Alcedo atthis""). Fourteen species have been confirmed as breeding including sand martins (""Riparia riparia""), which nest in drain-pipes in the brick walls of the canal in the centre of Reading. Wilton Water by Crofton Locks and the Kennet Valley gravel pits provide habitats for breeding and wintering waterfowl. Several species of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) and other invertebrates have also"
"now belongs to the new leaf-warbler family Phylloscopidae. The genus name ""Phylloscopus"" is from Ancient Greek ""phullon"", ""leaf"", and ""skopos"", ""seeker"" (from ""skopeo"", ""to watch""). The specific ""trochiloides"" is from Ancient Greek ""trokhalos"", ""bowed"", and ""-oides"" ""resembling"", from the similarity to the willow warbler, ""P. trochilus"". The English name of this species provides a perfect argument in favour of the capitalisation of species names (i.e. treating them as proper nouns), a convention which is generally applied in scientific literature. The decapitalised ""greenish warbler"" is equally descriptive of many bird species across multiple families, whereas a capitalised ""Greenish Warbler"" shows unambiguously"
"fern (""Thelypteris palustris"") and royal fern (""Osmunda regalis""). Old peat workings and rhynes have a wetland community which includes bulrush (""Typha latifolia""), yellow flag iris (""pseudacorus""), cyperus-like sedge (""Carex pseudocyperus"") and lesser bur-reed (""Sparganium minimum""). Insects recorded include 33 species of butterflies, 200 moths and 12 grasshoppers and crickets, with several notable rarities. Birds breeding in the carr woodland include the local willow tit Street Heath Street Heath () is a 12.5 hectare (31.0 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest 4 km west of Glastonbury in Somerset, notified in 1966. It next to the Glastonbury Canal and Ham Wall"
"common frog, common toad and common lizard are widespread in appropriate habitats. The green hairstreak, purple hairstreak, comma, hummingbird hawk-moth, broad-bordered bee hawk-moth and ghost moth are sometimes seen in the woods with the common butterfly and moth species, and a clouded yellow or Camberwell beauty may also occur in some years. Grayling, small heath and common blue butterflies can be found in the dunes, where there is also a large antlion colony, making Holkham one of only two locations for this predatory insect in the UK. Dragonflies include the migrant hawker, southern hawker and ruddy darter. On exposed parts"
"through wild breeders or vagrants. The introduced species admitted to the British list are: Western capercaillie, ""Tetrao urogallus"", and white-tailed eagle, ""Haliaeetus albicilla"", are reintroductions of formerly breeding species. British avifauna The British avifauna consists of the birds which have occurred in Great Britain. This article is a general discussion of the topic. A full species list can be found at List of birds of Great Britain. In general the avifauna of Britain is, of course, similar to that of Europe, consisting largely of Palaearctic species. As an island, it has fewer breeding species than continental Europe, with some species,"
"part, the site is home to nationally important breeding populations of a number of birds. Three species—merlin, Eurasian golden plover and short-eared owl—are listed in Annex 1 of the European Commission's Birds Directive as requiring special protection; the high density of merlin is particularly noteworthy. Other breeding species include red grouse, Eurasian curlew, common redshank, common snipe and dunlin, which are listed in the United Kingdom's Red Data Book (Birds). Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham and Northumberland, England. It"
"a chicken, three little crakes, three Eurasian scops owls, the only late December record of tawny pipit, three black-eared wheatears, a record of two White's thrushes together in April, a spring lanceolated warbler, two moustached warblers and a pine grosbeak. Furthermore, issues were found with the identification of Britain's first western sandpiper, on Fair Isle in 1956, and these led the BOURC to reject this record. The western sandpiper has been recorded several times subsequently in Britain however, and remains on the national list. The subcommittee's final report also hints at the prospect that some records from immediately prior to"
"stone curlew, sand martins, baby tawny owls, dawn chorus (tits, treecreeper, finches, wren), reed and sedge warblers, nightingale, spoonbill, bittern, marsh harrier and common cranes. Oddie: ""If you asked me where I would go to see the biggest number of different species of birds, in Britain, in one day, I'd say Minsmere, in Suffolk, in early May. And that's exactly where I am!"" A quest for the Scottish ""Big Six"" Species seen: osprey, crossbills, red squirrels, crested tit, (female) capercaillie, Slavonian grebe, golden eagle, dipper, grey and pied wagtails, common sandpiper, ptarmigan and dotterel. Bill attempts to see a male"
"is only found in a few localised sites in County Kerry and western County Cork. For atlases see Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland. It reached Ireland some time after the ice age. About 400 bird species have been recorded in Ireland. Many of these species are migratory. There are Arctic birds, which come in the winter, and birds such as the swallow, which come from Africa in the summer to breed. Many birds which are common residents in Britain and continental Europe are rare or unusual in Ireland, examples include the tawny owl, willow tit,"
"warbler, sedge warbler and reed bunting in the reed bed, sallows and alders of the dune slack, common whitethroat, grasshopper warbler, skylark and European stonechats in the fixed dunes and their low scrub and burnet roses. 268 species of bird have been recorded, with up to 170 in a single year. The grasshopper warbler has recently been elevated to red status in the Birds of Conservation Concern list whilst reed bunting has amber status. The site is an important breeding site for natterjack toads, a breed common in mainland Europe, but rare in the UK. Natterjack toads are confined to"
"Poland: red-backed shrike, corncrake, golden oriole, hawfinch, white stork, aquatic warbler, white-winged black terns, great snipe, flycatchers (pied, spotted, collared and red-breasted). Species seen in Wales: red kite, dipper, nuthatch, redstart, pied flycatcher, wood warbler, little tern, seabird colony, chough, gull colony, house martin, fulmar, Manx shearwater. Species seen: black skimmer, 'peeps' (small wader), peregrine falcon, sharp-tailed sparrow, ruby-throated hummingbird, kestrel. Oddie: ""There are just a few places in the world where the very name means birds and birding. Cape May, New Jersey, is one of them."" Birding with Bill Oddie Birding with Bill Oddie was a British TV programme,"
"autumn, the numbers of Scandinavian breeders such as bluethroat and wryneck are linked to the prevalence of easterly winds. Perhaps also best placed in this category are a few seabirds which breed in the southern hemisphere, but ""winter"" in the northern hemisphere during the northern summer. These are seen off the south west of Britain in autumn. They are the great shearwater, sooty shearwater and the rare Wilson's petrel. One of the fascinations of the British list is the number of rarities. Because of its position on the western fringes of Europe, Britain receives a number of vagrants from North"
"became commonly known as coachwhip bird or stockwhip bird. John Gould recorded the aboriginal term ""Djou"" from the Hunter Region of New South Wales. Its specific name is derived from its olive colouration, though was soon placed in the new genus ""Psophodes"" by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield, derived from the Greek ""psophōdes""/ψοφωδης meaning 'noisy'. The family placement has changed, some now placing it in a large broadly defined inclusive Corvidae, while others split it and several other genera into the quail-thrush family Cinclosomatidae. Other research proposes that the quail-thrushes are themselves distinctive, leaving the whipbirds and wedgebills in"
"are the oystercatcher, many species of plovers, woodcock, common snipe, jack snipe, Eurasian curlew, common sandpiper, redshank and lapwing. About half of the European birds are passerines of the songbirds suborder. The more common of these include larks (skylark, crested lark, woodlark), swallows (barn swallow, sand martin, house martin), Motacillidae (tree pipit, meadow pipit, white wagtail, yellow wagtail), shrikes (red-backed shrike, great grey shrike), golden oriole, European starling, crows (magpie, jackdaw, hooded crow, rook, Eurasian jay), white-throated dipper, dunnock, Eurasian wren, Eurasian nuthatch, goldcrest, several warblers (reed warbler, sedge warbler, great reed-warbler, icterine warbler, Cetti's warbler, garden warbler, blackcap, whitethroat,"