British Birds Calendar

British Birds Calendar Overview

Bird watchers and lovers of wildlife will delight in the outstanding photos of our native birdlife in the British Birds calendar. Each bird is depicted in its natural environment throughout the changing seasons, along with background notes which provide an insight into its behaviour, habitat and how to recognise it, as well as the bird’s Latin name.

The lapwing is shown in one photo. A familiar sight on farmland and wetlands, wheeling through the skies in large flocks, it is named after the ‘lapping’ sound of its wings in flight. The male performs an acrobatic tumbling display, with a piercing call, giving rise to its other name ‘peewit’. A shelduck is featured in another image. Shelducks feed by digging or dabbling for invertebrates, small fish, worms and seeds. Found on muddy shores, estuaries and salt marshes around the UK coast, they have spread inland to flooded gravel pits. In winter resident shelducks are joined by thousands of migrating birds. Ducklings are often left in crèches, guarded by a single pair of adults.