Birds

Mae cyfanswm o 59 gwahanol rywogaeth o adar wedi’u cofnodi yma.

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While our panel for these magnificent birds has highlighted some of the varieties of birds you may see while walking, we have a list of over nearly sixty species of birds recorded.

Some of these include:

• Blackbird
• Blackcap
• Blue Tit
• Bullfinch
• Buzzard
• Cartoon Crow
• Chaffinch
• Chiffchaff
• Coal Tit
• Collared Dove
• Crossbill
• Cuckoo
• Dunnock
• Feral Pigeon
• Garden Warbler
• Goldcrest
• Goshawk
• Grasshopper Warbler
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Great Tit
• Green Woodpecker
• Greenfinch
• Grey Wagtail
• House Martin
• Jackdaw
• Jay
• Kestrel
• Linnet
• Long-tailed Tit
• Magpie
• Mallard
• Marsh Tit
• Meadow Pipit
• Mistletoe Thrush
• Nightjar
• Peregrine
• Pheasant
• Pied Wagtail
• Raven
• Red Kite
• Lesser Redpoll
• Redstart
• Reed Bunting
• Robin
• Sand Martin
• Siskin
• Skylark
• Song Thrush
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Stonechat
• Swallow
• Swift
• Tree Pipit
• Whinchat
• Wood Warbler
• Whitethroat
• Wood Pigeon
• Willow Warbler
• Wren

For those of our walkers who are using a screen-reader to help them access the information on the panels, our text in readable format is below in Welsh and English:

Our Forest has been surveyed for birds annually for the last 25 years as part of a national study by the British Trust for Ornithology. A total of some 59 different species of bird have been recorded here. These are some of them:

Siskin – these tiny yellow birds love conifer plantations as they eat the seeds from the cones. We have a very healthy Siskin population locally and you can attract them into your garden if you put Nyger seed or sunflower hearts in your bird feeders. They are not at all shy.

Nightjar – can occasionally be seen hunting for moths and insects at dusk. They have a strange churring call and are almost 30 cm long but their nocturnal habit and silent flight make them difficult to spot. We do however have 25% of the Welsh Nightjar numbers in our County’s conifer plantations with the Dulais Valley a stronghold. Nightjars used to have a supernatural reputation and were even referred to in Harry Potter!

The Northern Goshawk is probably not as familiar to us as our local Buzzards and even Red Kites, but there are breeding pairs in Crynant Forest. They have a reputation of being one of the fiercest hawks, hunting almost anything including squirrels, rabbits and birds. They were persecuted almost to extinction by gamekeepers in the 1800s but the numbers have slowly picked back up to several hundred across the UK.

Lesser Redpoll – we are lucky to have good numbers of these tiny finches in the forest as they are in decline in many areas. They are on the Red list, which means they are of “conservation concern”.

Crossbill – named because its bill/beak crosses over to get at the small seeds inside pine cones. This chunky finch breeds as early as February. The males are brick red while the females are greenish and they are often seen in flocks above the conifers.

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Dros y 25 mlynedd diwethaf mae’r Goedwig wedi’i harolygu’n flynyddol yn rhan o astudiaeth genedlaethol gan y Ymddiriedolaeth Adarag Prydain, y ‘British Trust for Ornithology’. Mae cyfanswm o 59 gwahanol rywogaeth o adar wedi’u cofnodi yma. Dyma rai ohonynt:

Pilaod Gwyrdd – mae’r adar bychain melyn hyn yn dwlu ar goedwigoedd conwydd oherwydd eu bod yn bwyta hadau o’r conau. Mae gennym boblogaeth iach iawn o Bilaod Gwyrdd yn lleol a medrwch eu denu i’ch gardd os rhowch hadau Niger (Guizotia) neu galonau blodau haul yn eich ymborthwr adar. Nid ydynt yn adar swil.

Troellwr Mawr – e’u gwelir o bryd i’w gilydd yn hela am wyfynod a phryfed rhwng dau olau. Mae ganddynt alwad grilliol rhyfedd ac maent bron yn 30cm o hyd, ond mae’r ffaith mai yn y nos y dônt allan a’u bod yn hedfan yn gwbl dawel yn eu gwneud yn anodd i’w gweld. Fodd bynnag yma ym mhlanhigfeydd conwydd y Sir y ceir 25% o niferoedd Troellwyr Mawr Cymru ac mae Dyffryn Dulais yn gadarnle iddynt. Roedd gan Droellwyr Mawr enw am fod yn oruwchnaturiol ac mae cyfeiriad atynt yn Harry Potter hyd yn oed!

Gwalch Marth bosib nad yw hwn mor gyfarwydd i ni â’r Boncath a hyd yn oed y Barcud Coch lleol, ond mae yna barau sy’n bridio yng Nghoedwig y Creunant. Mae ganddynt enw am fod yn hebogiaid ffyrnig, yn hela fwy neu lai popeth gan gynnwys gwiwerod, cwningod ac adar. Cawsant eu herlid bron i ddifodiant gan giperiaid yn yr 1800au, ond mae eu niferoedd bellach wedi cynyddu’n araf i nifer o gannoedd ar draws y DU.

Llinos Bengoch Fechan ydym yn ffodus iawn fod gennym nifer dda o’r pincod bychain hyn yn y goedwig er bod eu niferoedd yn dirywio mewn llawer o ardaloedd. Maent ar y rhestr Goch, sy’n golygu eu bod o “bryder cadwraethol”.

Gylfingroes oherwydd y ffaith bod ei phig yn croesi drosodd er mwyn cyrraedd yr hadau bach y tu fewn i’r conau pinwydd y daw’r enw Saesneg, ‘Crossbill’. Mae’r pincod bach tew hyn yn bridio mor gynnar â mis Chwefror. Mae’r gwrywod yr un lliw coch â briciau tra bod y benywod yn wyrddliw ac fe’u gwelir yn aml mewn haid uwchlaw’r coed conwydd.