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  • Water Vole Arvicola terrestris Length 20-32cm Charming waterside mammal, equally at home in water or on a river bank. Adult has plump body and reddish brown fur. Head is relatively large and rounded. Front feet grasp vegetation while eating. Hind feet are used for swimming. Tail is bristly and relatively shorter than Brown Rat, which has a naked tail. Mostly silent. Likes clean, slow flowing or still waters with marginal vegetation and steep, muddy banks into which it burrows. Thrives only where habitat is maintained and predatory American Mink are controlled.
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  • Water Vole Arvicola terrestris Length 20-32cm Charming waterside mammal, equally at home in water or on a river bank. Adult has plump body and reddish brown fur. Head is relatively large and rounded. Front feet grasp vegetation while eating. Hind feet are used for swimming. Tail is bristly and relatively shorter than Brown Rat, which has a naked tail. Mostly silent. Likes clean, slow flowing or still waters with marginal vegetation and steep, muddy banks into which it burrows. Thrives only where habitat is maintained and predatory American Mink are controlled.
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  • Water Vole Arvicola terrestris Length 20-32cm Charming waterside mammal, equally at home in water or on a river bank. Adult has plump body and reddish brown fur. Head is relatively large and rounded. Front feet grasp vegetation while eating. Hind feet are used for swimming. Tail is bristly and relatively shorter than Brown Rat, which has a naked tail. Mostly silent. Likes clean, slow flowing or still waters with marginal vegetation and steep, muddy banks into which it burrows. Thrives only where habitat is maintained and predatory American Mink are controlled.
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  • Water Vole Arvicola terrestris Length 20-32cm Charming waterside mammal, equally at home in water or on a river bank. Adult has plump body and reddish brown fur. Head is relatively large and rounded. Front feet grasp vegetation while eating. Hind feet are used for swimming. Tail is bristly and relatively shorter than Brown Rat, which has a naked tail. Mostly silent. Likes clean, slow flowing or still waters with marginal vegetation and steep, muddy banks into which it burrows. Thrives only where habitat is maintained and predatory American Mink are controlled.
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  • Water Vole Arvicola terrestris Length 20-32cm Charming waterside mammal, equally at home in water or on a river bank. Adult has plump body and reddish brown fur. Head is relatively large and rounded. Front feet grasp vegetation while eating. Hind feet are used for swimming. Tail is bristly and relatively shorter than Brown Rat, which has a naked tail. Mostly silent. Likes clean, slow flowing or still waters with marginal vegetation and steep, muddy banks into which it burrows. Thrives only where habitat is maintained and predatory American Mink are controlled.
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  • Water Vole Arvicola terrestris Length 20-32cm Charming waterside mammal, equally at home in water or on a river bank. Adult has plump body and reddish brown fur. Head is relatively large and rounded. Front feet grasp vegetation while eating. Hind feet are used for swimming. Tail is bristly and relatively shorter than Brown Rat, which has a naked tail. Mostly silent. Likes clean, slow flowing or still waters with marginal vegetation and steep, muddy banks into which it burrows. Thrives only where habitat is maintained and predatory American Mink are controlled.
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  • Water Vole Arvicola terrestris Length 20-32cm Charming waterside mammal, equally at home in water or on a river bank. Adult has plump body and reddish brown fur. Head is relatively large and rounded. Front feet grasp vegetation while eating. Hind feet are used for swimming. Tail is bristly and relatively shorter than Brown Rat, which has a naked tail. Mostly silent. Likes clean, slow flowing or still waters with marginal vegetation and steep, muddy banks into which it burrows. Thrives only where habitat is maintained and predatory American Mink are controlled.
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  • Hooded Vulture - Necrosyrtes monachus
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  • Hooded Vulture - Necrosyrtes monachus
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  • Hooded Vulture - Necrosyrtes monachus
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  • Mullein Moth - Shargacucullia verbasci
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  • Mullein Moth - Shargacucullia verbasci
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  • Mullein Moth caterpillar - Cucullia verbasci
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  • Mullein Moth caterpillar - Cucullia verbasci
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  • Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla L 14-15cm. Distinctive warbler with a musical song. Sexes are dissimilar. Adult male has grey-brown upperparts, dusky grey underparts, palest on throat and undertail, pale eyering and diagnostic black cap. Adult female and juveniles have grey-brown upperparts, pale buffish grey underparts (palest on throat and undertail) and reddish chestnut cap. Voice Utters a sharp tchek alarm call. Song is rich and musical warble; similar to Garden Warbler’s but contains jaunty phrases. Status Common summer visitor to deciduous woodland with dense undergrowth, scrub and mature gardens. Migrants from N Europe pass through in autumn and some remain throughout winter.
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  • Blackcap - Sylvia atricapilla - Female. L 14-15cm. Distinctive warbler with a musical song. Sexes are dissimilar. Adult male has grey-brown upperparts, dusky grey underparts, palest on throat and undertail, pale eyering and diagnostic black cap. Adult female and juveniles have grey-brown upperparts, pale buffish grey underparts (palest on throat and undertail) and reddish chestnut cap. Voice Utters a sharp tchek alarm call. Song is rich and musical warble; similar to Garden Warbler’s but contains jaunty phrases. Status Common summer visitor to deciduous woodland with dense undergrowth, scrub and mature gardens. Migrants from N Europe pass through in autumn and some remain throughout winter.
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  • Blackcap - Sylvia atricapilla - Female. L 14-15cm. Distinctive warbler with a musical song. Sexes are dissimilar. Adult male has grey-brown upperparts, dusky grey underparts, palest on throat and undertail, pale eyering and diagnostic black cap. Adult female and juveniles have grey-brown upperparts, pale buffish grey underparts (palest on throat and undertail) and reddish chestnut cap. Voice Utters a sharp tchek alarm call. Song is rich and musical warble; similar to Garden Warbler’s but contains jaunty phrases. Status Common summer visitor to deciduous woodland with dense undergrowth, scrub and mature gardens. Migrants from N Europe pass through in autumn and some remain throughout winter.
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  • Red-tipped Clearwing - Synanthedon formicaeformis. Length 11-14mm. A fly-like, day-flying moth. Adult has mainly black body with red band on abdomen. Wings are mainly clear but note the red tips and red leading edge to forewing. Larva feeds in stems of sallows and willows. Widespread but commonest in southern England.
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  • White-barred Clearwing - Synanthedon spheciformis - larvae inside Alder twig
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  • Painted Stork - Mycteria leucocephala - feeding with Eurasian Spoonbills - Platalea leucorodia
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  • Indian Roller - Coracias benghalensis
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  • Lapwing - Vanellus vanellus. L 30cm. Pied-looking wader with a spiky crest. Has rounded, black and white wings and distinctive call. Sexes are separable in summer. Adult male in summer has green- and purple-sheened dark upperparts; underparts are white except for orange vent and black foreneck. Note black and white markings on throat. Adult female in summer has less distinct black neck markings and shorter crest. Winter adult is similar to summer female but throat and foreneck are white, and back feathers have buffish fringes. Juvenile is similar to winter adult but crest is short and back looks scaly. Voice Utters a choked pee-wit call. Status Fairly common nesting species of undisturbed grazed grassland, moors and arable farmland; numbers have declined seriously. Migrants from Europe boost numbers in winter.
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  • Griffon Vulture - Gyps fulvus
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  • Griffon Vulture - Gyps fulvus
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  • Laughing Gull - Larus atricilla - 1st winter
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  • Laughing Gull - Larus atricilla - summer adult
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  • Laughing Gull - Larus atricilla - summer adult
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  • Laughing Gull - Larus atricilla - summer adult
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  • Jack Snipe - Lymnocryptes minimus. L 18-20cm. Dumpy wader. Much smaller than Snipe, with shorter bill and legs, and more striking head and back markings. Pumps body up and down as it walks. Easy to overlook: plumage is cryptic and bird is very reluctant to fly. Sexes and ages are similar. Adult and juvenile have mainly brown upperparts with intricate, cryptic dark feather markings. Note striking yellow stripes on back; greenish sheen sometimes discerned. Head is has dark and pale buff stripes, including forked, pale supercilium. Neck and breast are streaked and underparts are white. Voice Mostly silent. Status Non-breeding visitor in small numbers. Favours muddy margins of pools and marshes, where tangled dead rush and grass stems match its cryptic plumage.
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  • Green Heron - Butorides virescens
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  • Green Heron - Butorides virescens
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  • Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis
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  • Bonelli's Eagle - Aquila fasciata - female
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  • Bonelli's Eagle - Aquila fasciata - female
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  • Bonelli's Eagle - Aquila fasciata - female
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  • Eurasian Black Vulture - Aegypius monachus
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  • Eurasian Black - Aegypius monachus, Monk or Cinereous Vulture with Griffon Vultures - Gyps fulvus
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  • Eurasian Black, Cinereous or Monk Vulture, Aegypius monachus, juvenile approaching food with spread wings, summer, Castilla y Leon, Spain
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  • Eurasian Black Vulture - Aegypius monachus with Griffon Vultures - Gyps fulvus
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  • Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris Length 35-45cm Britain’s native squirrel. Adult has compact body with large head, tufted ears and bushy tail. In summer, coat is mainly orange-brown with creamy white underparts; tail bleaches paler with time. In winter, coat is thicker and darker on back; ear tufts more pronounced. Utters chattering calls. Formerly widespread in Britain prior to introduction of Grey Squirrel; now common only in N in mature conifer forests with a few southern outposts (eg Thetford Forest in Norfolk, Isle of Wight and Brownsea Island, Dorset.
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  • Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris Length 35-45cm Britain’s native squirrel. Adult has compact body with large head, tufted ears and bushy tail. In summer, coat is mainly orange-brown with creamy white underparts; tail bleaches paler with time. In winter, coat is thicker and darker on back; ear tufts more pronounced. Utters chattering calls. Formerly widespread in Britain prior to introduction of Grey Squirrel; now common only in N in mature conifer forests with a few southern outposts (eg Thetford Forest in Norfolk, Isle of Wight and Brownsea Island, Dorset.
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  • Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
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  • Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
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  • Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
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  • Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
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  • Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
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  • Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
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  • Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
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  • Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult male
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Baltimore Oriole -  Icterus galbula - Adult female
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  • Moorhen Gallinula chloropus L 32-35cm. Familiar wetland bird. Swims with jerky movements and constantly flicks its tail. Often tame on urban lakes. Sexes are similar. Adult can look all-dark but has dark blue-grey head, neck and underparts, and brownish back, wings and tail. Has yellow-tipped red bill and frontal shield, and yellow legs and long toes. Note white feathers on sides of undertail and a white line along flanks. Juvenile is greyish brown with white on throat, sides of undertail coverts, and along flanks. Voice Utters a loud kurrrk. Status Common resident on all sorts of wetland habitats, from village ponds to flooded gravel pits and lakes.
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  • Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus L 18-20cm. Dumpy wader. Much smaller than Snipe, with shorter bill and legs, and more striking head and back markings. Pumps body up and down as it walks. Easy to overlook: plumage is cryptic and bird is very reluctant to fly. Sexes and ages are similar. Adult and juvenile have mainly brown upperparts with intricate, cryptic dark feather markings. Note striking yellow stripes on back; greenish sheen sometimes discerned. Head is has dark and pale buff stripes, including forked, pale supercilium. Neck and breast are streaked and underparts are white. Voice Mostly silent. Status Non-breeding visitor in small numbers. Favours muddy margins of pools and marshes, where tangled dead rush and grass stems match its cryptic plumage.
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  • Knot Calidris canutus - Juvenile. L 25cm. Dumpy, robust wader. Forms large flocks in winter. Has white wingbar but otherwise lacks distinctive features in non-breeding plumage. Sexes are similar. Adult in winter has uniform grey upperparts and white underparts. Bill is dark and legs are dull yellowish green. In summer plumage (sometimes seen in late spring or early autumn) has orange-red face, neck and underparts; back is marked with black, red and grey. Legs and bill are dark. Juvenile resembles winter adult but has scaly-looking back and peachy flush to breast. Voice Utters a sharp kwet call. Status Non-breeding visitor to Britain and Ireland. Locally common in winter on estuaries and mudflats.
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  • Knot Calidris canutus - Juvenile. L 25cm. Dumpy, robust wader. Forms large flocks in winter. Has white wingbar but otherwise lacks distinctive features in non-breeding plumage. Sexes are similar. Adult in winter has uniform grey upperparts and white underparts. Bill is dark and legs are dull yellowish green. In summer plumage (sometimes seen in late spring or early autumn) has orange-red face, neck and underparts; back is marked with black, red and grey. Legs and bill are dark. Juvenile resembles winter adult but has scaly-looking back and peachy flush to breast. Voice Utters a sharp kwet call. Status Non-breeding visitor to Britain and Ireland. Locally common in winter on estuaries and mudflats.
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  • Blackbird Turdus merula - Male. L 25-28cm. Familiar ground-dwelling bird. Sexes are dissimilar. Adult male has uniformly blackish plumage. Legs are dark but bill and eyering are yellow. 1st winter male is similar but bill is dark and eyering is dull. Adult and 1st winter female are brown, darkest on wings and tail, and palest on throat and streaked breast. Juvenile is similar to adult female but marked with pale spots. Voice Utters harsh and repeated tchak alarm call, often at dusk. Male has rich, fluty and varied song. Status Common and widespread in gardens, but in woodland, farmland and coasts. Upland birds move to lower levels in winter and migrants arrive from Europe.
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  • Black Tern - Chlidonias niger
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  • Black Tern - Chlidonias niger
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  • Black Tern - Chlidonias niger
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  • Dunlin Calidris alpina (L 17-21cm) is the yardstick by which all other small waders should be judged. Get to know it in all its different plumages and you will have overcome the biggest hurdle in identification of other similar species. Several different races, with differing bill lengths, occur here outside the breeding season. Forms large flocks in winter. Summer adult has reddish brown back and cap, and whitish underparts with bold black belly and streaking on neck. Male is usually more boldly marked than female. Winter adult has uniform grey upperparts and white underparts. Juvenile has reddish brown and black feathers on the back; pale feather margins align to form ‘V’ patterns. Underparts are whitish but with black streak-like spots on the flanks and breast; head and neck are brown and streaked. Voice Utters a preeit call; breeding ‘song’ comprises a series of whistling calls. Status Local breeding species on damp moorland and mountain habitats. Locally abundant outside breeding season due to migrants from Arctic.
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