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General London wildlife

A collection of recordings made around London of birds, mammals and insects. Special thanks to xeno canto recordist Stuart Fisher for kindly allowing many of his recordings to be included here.

Blackbird alarm calls Wanstead Park
Blackbirds Telegraph Hill Telegraph Hill
Blue Tit Colindale
Brambling Bromley-by-Bow
Carrion Crow 1 Lesnes Abbey Woods
Collared Dove Rainham station
Common Chaffinch Bromley-by-Bow
Common Whitethroat Wanstead–Ilford
Dunnock 1 Wanstead Flats
Dunnock 2 Wanstead–Ilford
Eurasian Blackbird 1 Bromley-by-Bow
Eurasian Blackbird 2 Leytonstone
Eurasian Jay Wanstead Park
Eurasian Tree Sparrow Beddington Farm
European Robin 1 Lesnes Abbey Woods
European Robin 2 Bromley-by-Bow
European Starling Beddington Farm
Garden Warbler 1 Manor Park Cemetery
Garden Warbler 2 Manor Park Cemetery
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Beddington Farm
Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 Walthamstow Marshes
Great Tit 1 Telegraph Hill
Little Owl Beddington Farm
Mistle Thrush Wanstead Flats
Ringnecked Parakeet 1 Lesnes Abbey Woods
Rock pigeon roost Belvedere By the Thames, Belvedere
Skylark Dartford Marshes
Song Thrush Bromley-by-Bow
Stock Dove Wanstead Park
Water Pipit Beddington Farm
     
         
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Indian Ring-necked Parakeet

Classification: Land birds

Common name: Indian Ring-necked Parakeet

Scientific name: Psittacula krameri

Recorded by: IM Rawes

Recording date and time: 27 September 2009, 9.30am

Location: Lesnes Abbey Woods

Description: Quiet clucks and squeals from a single ring-necked parakeet shuffling slowly along a branch, around eight or nine feet above ground level. Sounds of other ring-necked parakeets in flight in the background.

Technical guff: Stereo. Audio Technica BP4029 mid/side mic and Fostex FR-2LE digital recorder.

Additional notes: None.