UK Safari Home Page
   A Website for Anyone Interested in the
   Wildlife and Countryside of Britain

Nature Photo

 Home | Animals + Nature | Nature Shop | Photography | Members Area | Latest News | Advertise | E-Cards


 

Free Newsletter

NewsletterSent to you
by e-mail

Simply enter your details and hit the send button
more info

Your name

e-mail address  



Search
 

First Visit?
Click Here


Explore More


Links
Advertise
Terms of Use
Contributors
About Us
Contact Us


 

Go back Go Back  |  Bookmark Add to Favourites  |  Print Page Print Page  | E-Mail Us Tell us what you think of this page

Rare Bird Sightings
May 2005
by Steve Botham

Trumpeter Finch - Photo © Copyright 2005 Steve Botham: s.botham@ntlworld.com
Photo: Steve Botham

UK Safari Tip:
Need help identifying birds? One of the best field guides is the "Collins Bird Guide" - available through the Amazon bookshop -  click here

This Trumpeter Finch was spotted at Languard in Suffolk on the 22nd May. It's a juvenile, possibly a female. Unusually a second Trumpeter finch was spotted at Tankerton in Kent the same week.

Trumpeter finches are extremely rare vagrants in the U.K. with only eight British records up to date. This is the first twitchable one for 21 years. Staff at Languard estimated 5,000 people came to see the bird over the weekend it showed up.

These birds thrive in barren areas, and are well at home in the desert conditions of North Africa, so their arrival here in the U.K. is possibly a result of recent dust storms in the Sahara.

Trumpeter finches can also be found in southern Spain, the Canaries and Turkey.



Track Down More Info

Top 50 Garden Birds ID Chart
Wetland Birds Identification Chart
UK Safari Rare Bird Section
UK Safari Bird Section








 © 2006 G. Bradley. All Rights Reserved