hard shelled egg

Ruby throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris in flight, feedin with tis long beak from a pink convolvulus like flower and showing its bright green featehrs and scarlet thoat patch

Saqr falcon with eye shades and tresses, ready for falconry hunting and perched on ceremonial Arabian perch

Sanderling Calidris alba standing in a rockpool with seaweed covered stones on a beach with lots of other wading birds behind and distant sea view of a rocky coast

Sanderling Calidris alba

Stylized diagram of the duck egg showing chalaza, yolk, white, germination, membranes, and air pocket

Short eared owl Asio falmmeus in amongst vegetation icnluding grasses and ferns

Skylark Alauda arvensis ascending in flight small vignette scene with fields and heather behind

Skylark Alauda arvensis

Smew Mergellus albellus pen and ink illustration of the bird swimming on water

Snipe Gallinago gallinago perched on a slab of limestone looking forwards

Snipe Gallinago gallinago looking over its shoulder

Ring ouzel Turdus torquatus perched on a branch looking surly

Snipe Gallinago gallinago on the ground, cut to white

Robin Erithacus rubecula with a worm in its beak returning to an open fronted nest box attached to the trunk of a tree with a blue sky behind

Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus perched on top of a post with moss at its feet

Peacock pavo pair with male tail on display, disintersted peahen passing by in front of him

Peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus cut to white

Pheasant Phasianus colchicus cock perched in a tree

Pheasant Phasianus colchicus cock striding on the ground with small fern and grass at his feet

Pigeon Columba livia skeleton simple line drawing

Pochard Aythya ferina pair with male with rusty head and female on one leg with head nestled into her chest

Puffin Fratercula arctica standing on tufts of grass facing left

Raven Corvus corax cut to white

Red grouse Lagopus lagopus