Category: cliff&coastline-b
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Carrion Crow
Carrion Crows can be seen throughout the year. All too often maligned in popular culture, these are amazing and intelligent birds.Photo: © Richard Birchett
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Ring Ouzel
This member of the thrush family is easily mistaken at a distance for its cousin, the Blackbird, but a closer look gives the game away. A passage migrant across The […]
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Merlin
The Merlin is our smallest bird of prey, but it makes up for its size with lots of grit and steely determination. Photo: © Richard Birchett
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Sandwich Tern
Lizard Point is a great place for spotting migrant birds, such as Sandwich Terns, as they head to their breeding grounds. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt
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Redwing
Windmill Farm is a good place to spot these winter visitors. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt
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Ross’s Gull
This pretty, small gull is native to the High Arctic of Canada and Siberia. This vagrant was spotted early in January 2016 flying by Lizard Point. Photo: Tony Blunden
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Common Sandpiper
Common Sandpipers are often spotted on the Helford, on their migration. Read on to find a video showing its characteristic, and very endearing, bobbing motion as it forages for food. […]
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Dunlin
Dunlins can be spotted in estuaries and salt marshes in the autumn and winter. Photo: Amanda Scott
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Sparrowhawk
Although the Sparrowhawk breeds in woodland, it can be spotted hunting across many habitats. Photo: © Natural England/Andy Neale
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Sand Martin
In the spring and early summer, look out for breeding Sand Martins. They nest in burrows in sandy banks and cliffs. Photo: Myosotis Scorpioides at en.wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL]
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Bar-tailed Godwit
Look out for this long-beaked wader round the Lizard coastline in winter, or on passage in spring and autumn. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt
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Linnet
Look out for the smart chestnut breasts of male Linnets in their summer plumage. Photo: © Allan Drewitt/Natural England
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House Martin
House Martins arrive back in the UK in the spring. Photo: Ken Billington
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Mediterranean Gull
Some Mediterranean Gulls overwinter round the Lizard coast, before returning to their summer breeding grounds. Photo: © Allan Drewitt/Natural England
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Herring Gull
Did you know the Herring Gull is a red-listed species in the UK? Photo: Amanda Scott
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Purple Sandpiper
Scan the rocks near Lizard Point in the winter months, and you may be lucky enough to find a flock of hard-to-see Purple Sandpipers. Photo: By Myosotis Scorpioides at en.wikipedia, […]