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Birdwatching Holidays in Spain, Morocco & More… BIRD Birdwatching Holidays in Spain, Morocco & more… BOLETAS Birdwatching centre 22192 Loporzano (Huesca) – Spain tel/fax 00 34 974 262027 or 01162 889318 e.mail: [email protected] // www.boletas.org Esther Diago Millán - NIF 38493051K BIRD HIGHLIGHTS TOUR DATES Andalucía & Extremadura May 2nd to 11th Iberian Lynx special Party: Tessa Huguet , Chris Travis , Brenda Faulconbridge , Jill Faulconbridge Barbara Clay , Joyce Jones , Janet Jones Tour Leader : Josele J. Saiz Total Number of Species : 165 Weather & Sites: Day 1 – Sunny- Malaga – Laguna de Fuente de Piedra – Hinojos – El Rocio Day 2 – Sunny - El Rocio – La Rocina – Dehesa de Abajo – North of Doñana Nacional Park Day 3 – Sunny & hot - Laguna de La Mujer – La Rabida Lake – Odiel Marshes - El Portil Lake Day 4 – Clouds but nice - Hinojos – Laguna El Rincon – Sierra Morena Day 5 – Cloudy but nice - Sierra Morena Day 6 – Coludy - Sierra Morena – Belen Monastery – La Serena Plaíns - Acedera Day 7 – Cloudy with heavy storms- Finca Santa Marta – Belen Plains – Trujillo Day 8 – Cloudy with heavy storms - Jaraicejo – Monfrague Natural Park – Serradilla Day 9 - Cloudy with some storms and windy - Kurro´s Farm – Sierra Brava area Money for conservation has gone to : h/Heard */ Seeing ad/ Adult juv/ Juvenile f/ Female m/Male XX / Common (?) possible SPECIES Scientific Name Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 1 Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis 10+ 2 9 2 Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea 3 Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus 4 Mediterranean or Yelkouan Puffinus yelkouan 5 Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis 6 Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus 7 Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo 8 Purple Heron Ardea purpurea xx 4 1 9 Little Egret Egretta garzetta x 10+ 5+ 10 Great Egret Egretta alba 31 11 Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis x x x x x x x 12 Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides 7+ 5 13 Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax 20+ 14 Great Bittern Botaurus stellaris 15 Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus 1 2 16 Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus xx 4 17 Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia 30+ 30+ 18 White Stork Ciconia ciconia xxxx x x x 19 Black Stork Ciconia nigra 1 4+ 20 Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber xx x x 21 Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna 2 22 Gadwall Anas strepera 20+ 40+ 23 Garganey Anas querquedula 24 Northern Pintail Anas acuta 25 Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina 60+ 20+ 2 26 Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca 27 White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala 28 Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus 5+ 29 Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus 30 Cinereous, Black or Monk Aegypius monachus 15+5+1 31 Eurasian Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus 2 1 x xx xx x x 32 Osprey Pandion haliaetus 1 33 European Honey-Buzzard Pernis apivorus 1 1 34 Red Kite Milvus milvus 1 171 35 Black Kite Milvus migrans migrans; x xx x x x xx x x x 36 Black-winged or shouldered Elanus caeruleus 1 3 37 Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciatus 2 2 38 Booted Eagle Aquila pennatus 1 2 4 4+ 1 39 Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos 40 Spanish Imperial Eagle Aquila adalberti 2 1 41 Short-toed Snake-Eagle Circaetus gallicus 5+ 42 Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis 131 43 Common Buzzard Buteo buteo 44 Western or Eurasian Marsh Circus aeruginosus 2 2 2 45 Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus 1 3 5+ 2 10+ 3 46 Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus 47 Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonora 48 Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo 49 Merlin Falco columbarius 50 Lesser Kestrel Falco naummani 51 Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus mutus 2 3 10+ 2 15+ 3+ 52 Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus 53 Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa x x x x 54 Common Crane Grus grus 55 Red-knobbed or Crested Coot Fulica cristata 1 56 Purple Swamphen Porphyrula porphyrula 35 57 Corncrake Crex crex 58 Water Rail Rallus aquaticus 59 Spotted Crake Porzana porzana 60 Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla 61 Little Crake Porzana parva 62 Great Bustard Otis tarda 50+ 15+ 7 63 Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax 5 3 64 Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus 6+ xx xx x x 65 Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius x x 66 Kentish or Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus x190x 67 Eurasian Dotterel Eudromias morinellus 68 Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii 69 Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus 70 Eurasian Thick-knee or Stone Burhinus oedicnemus 71 Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola 3 3 6+ 72 Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus 73 Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii 1ju 74 Slender-billed Gull Larus genei 75 Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica 10+ 1 10+ 76 Little Tern Sterna albifrons 77 Caspian Tern Sterna caspia 78 Black Tern Chlidonias niger xx 79 Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus x x 80 Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata 81 Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis 5 82 European Turtle-Dove Streptopelia turtur 6 1 83 Monk Parakeet (escaped) Myiopsitta monachus 84 Ring-necked Parakeet (escaped) Psittacula krameri 85 Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius 2 1 1 86 Barn Owl Tyto alba 87 Eurasian Eagle-Owl Bubo bubo 2 88 Long-eared Owl Asio otus 1 89 Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus 90 Common or Eurasian Scops- Otus scops 91 Little Owl Athene noctua 1 2 1 1 92 Boreal or Tengmalm's Owl Aegolius funereus 93 Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis 1 2 1 94 Pallid Swift Apus pallidus 2 1 95 White-rumped Swift Apus caffer 96 Alpine Swift Apus melba 10+ 97 European Bee-eater Merops apiaster 6+ 10+ 2 2 10+ 10+ 6 15+ 6 98 European Roller Coracias garrulus 25 99 Eurasian or Common Hoopoe Upupa epops 8 2 1 4 6 6 4 5 100 Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla h 101 Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius 102 Middle Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos medius 103 White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos 104 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos minor 105 Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra 10+ x x 106 Dupont’s Lark Chersophilus duponti 107 Thekla Lark Galerida theklae 2 7+ 4+ 108 Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla 20+ 109 Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens 110 Eurasian Crag-Martin Hirundo rupestris x x x 111 Red-rumped Swallow Hirundo daurica 1 2 6+ 2 4 10+ 1 112 Tawny Pipit Anthus campestris 3 113 Rock Pipit Anthus petrosus 114 Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta 115 Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio 116 Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator senator; 3 5 1 x x x x x 2 117 Southern Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis 2 1 4 4 10+ 118 Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor 119 Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris 120 Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides h 121 Great Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus 1 5+ 2 h h 122 Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon 123 Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis 3 x 3 2 h h 1 1 1 124 Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti 2 h h 1 h 125 Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta 1 1 1 1 126 Olivaceous Warbler Hippolais pallida H 127 Orphean Warbler Sylvia hortensis 1 h 128 Sardinian Warbler Sylvia melanocephala h 1 1 3 4+ 2 6+ 5+ 5+ 129 Subalpine Warbler Sylvia cantillans 1 1 130 Spectacled Warbler Sylvia conspicillata 3 131 Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata h 4 132 Marmora's Warbler Sylvia sarda 133 Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli 134 Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus ibericus; 135 Firecrest Regulus ignicapillus 136 Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin Cercotrichas galactotes 1 137 Rock-Thrush Monticola saxatilis 138 Blue Rock-Thrush Monticola solitarius 1 3 139 Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica 140 Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura 141 Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros 2 142 Bluethroat Luscinia svecica 143 Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos h h 2 1 h 3 1 1 144 Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus 145 Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus 146 Penduline-Tit Remiz pendulinus 147 Crested Tit Parus cristatus 2 148 Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria 149 Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla 1 3 2 1 h h h 150 Dipper Cinclus cinclus 151 Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyana 10+ 5+ 5+ x xx x 10+ 10+ 10+ 152 Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax 3 153 Alpine Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus 154 Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis x 155 Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor 156 Golden-Oriole Oriolus oriolus 2 h 1 4 h 157 Common Waxbill (introduced) Estrilda astrild 158 Blue Chaffinch Fringilla teydea 159 European Serin Serinus serinus x x x x x x x x x 160 Citril Finch Serinus citrinella 161 Common Crossbill Loxia curvirostra 162 Trumpeter Finch Buchanetes (=Rhodopechys) 163 Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes 164 Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia 2 h h 165 Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis 166 Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus 167 Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana 168 Rock Bunting Emberiza cia 3 OTHER SIGHTINGS Mammals Iberian Lynx – 3 individuals Seeing two days Red Dear Wild Board Fallow Dear Rabbit Red Fox Butterflies Wallbrown Paintedlady Marbled White Spanish Gate Keeper Reptiles Large Pasmodromus Natrix Maura Ocellated Lizard Pond Terrapin Gree Frog Rock Lizard .
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