Rare Birds in Spain. Bird news 21-28 February 2023

 

Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat. observado.es and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group 


21-28.2.2023

 

Ducks & Geese

21-28.2.2023 Anas rubripes Sada, Ría de Betanzos, A Coruña (Xabi Varela), 26.2 (Roberto Figueiras), 28.2 (Juno Toni)

21.2.2023 Mareca americana 1 female Xunqueira do Lagares, Vigo, Pontevedra, coming from last month (Raúl  Granados; Fátima Romero); 22.2 (Javier Rodríguez); 27.2 (Marcos Prada)

22.2.2023 Aythya afinnis  Embalse de los Molinos, Fuerteventura, Canary Is. 1 m (Pep Manchado); 23-26.2 (Yann Rudent), 26.2 (Maggier Greer)

21.2.2023 Aythya afinnis  Cecebre reservoir, A Coruña 1 f (Xose Manoel Carregal). Still present. 25.2 (Xose Manoel Carregal, Graciela Fernández), 26.2 (Roberto Figueiras)

 

Waders

27.2.2023 Vanellus gregarius  1 ind La Roca de la Sierra--Vegas de Morantes (Roberto Bravo Gil) https://crextremadura.info/cita/avefria-sociable-vanellus-gregarius-15/

27.2.2023 Charadrius semipalmatus  1 ind Las Maretas, Tenerife, Canary Is. Still present (Tomas Stafström)

26.2.2023 Tringa flavipes 1 ind Abama reservoir, Tenerife, Canary Is. Still present (Albrto Aguiar)


Raptors

 

25.2.2023 Buteo rufinus rufinus 1 ind Font de Queralt, Segarra, Lleida. Still around (Pablo Pascual)

26.2.2023 Clanga pomarina 1 ind Tarifa, Cádiz (AJ Sepúlveda)

25.2.2023 Clanga pomarina x clanga1 ind Doñana, El Rocío, Huelva (Claus Pedersen)

 

Seabirds

21.2.2023 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 2 ind Guadalhorce river mouth, Málaga (Armando Molina; Antonio Tamayo); 22.2 (Javier Escobedo, Antonio Tamayo; Peter Alexander https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/538340341 ; Mick Richardson); 24.2 (Antonio Tamayo, Santiago Cabrera, José Adrián Sánchez, Antonio Román-Muñoz; Antonio García Lavado); 27.2 (Armando Molina)

 

  

 

 

21.2.2023 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind Carnota, Lira, A Coruña. Still there (Xavier Vázquez Pumariño)

 

22.2.2023 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind Urumea river, Donostia, Gipuzkoa (Xabier Saralegi https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/538334161

 

28.2.2023 Larus smithsonianus  1w Playa de Alba, Arteixo, A Coruña 7th for Galicia, 17th for Spain (Xabi Varela), photo below.

 


 

25.2.2023 Larus glaucoides kumlieni 1 ind Muxia, A Coruña (Ricardo Rojo, Adrián Bartolomé; J.L.García Allut)

 

Passerines

 

21.2.2023 Lanius isabellinus 1 ind coming from last year but not reported this 2023. Odiel marshes, Huelva (Juanjo Cipriano) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/537883051 ; 22.2 (Francisco Rivas; Manuel Bárcena); 24.2 (José Manuel Méndez)

 

 

 

22.2.2023  Phylloscopus humei  1 ind Parc del Laberint d’Horta, Barcelona. Still present  (Carlos Nos, Jaume Campderròs; Oriol Clarabuch), 24.2 (Jaume Campderròs); 25.2 (Jakub Macháň), 26.2 (Lluís Gustamante)

26.2.2023 Oenanthe deserti 1 ind Cabo de Gata, Almería. Still present (José Martín)

21.2.2023 Tarsiger cyanurus  1 ind Casasola, Albacete. Still present (Delfín González) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/538063681 ; 25.2 (José María Paraiso; García de los Ríos), 27.2 (Eugenio Castillejos)

 

 

21.2.2023 Ficedula parva 1 ind Paseo del Parque, Málaga (José A.Campos; Ifer Fernández, José Alberto Fernández); 22.2 (José A.Campos; Mick Richardson); 24.2 (José A.Campos); 25.2 (José Martín); 27.2 (Ignacio Barrionuevo; Javier Paricio), 28.2 (Radboud Schwarzenwalder)

21.2.2022 Motacilla tschutschensis 1 ind Guadaiza river mouth, Málaga (Guillermo Piñal) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/538083371 ; 22.2 (Miguel Juan; Juan Ramírez); 23.2 (Peter Alexander; MIck Richardson); 24.2 (Antonio Román-Muñoz, Juan Ramírez, Sergio González, José A.Campos); 25.2 (Samuel Milán; José Martín); 28.2 (Javier Paricio, Kevin Wade)

21.2.2023 Emberiza spodocephala 1 ind Sèquia nova de Silla, Albufera de València, València. Still present  (Juan Luis Muñoz; Esther Yera; Toni Polo, Montse Ferrís; Vittorio Pedrocchi, Arnau Pedrocchi https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/538028171 ; Miguel Angel Martín; Juan Luís Muñoz); 22.2 (Xurxo Piñeiro); 23.2 (Adolfo Torres, Félix Arribas Del Álamo; Vicente Tamarit; Rubén Piculo); 24.2 (Daniel Fernández; Celestino González, Carles Fabregat; Enrique Villaespesa; Miguel Rivera, Arnau Rivera; Gregorio Chaguaceda; Eugenio Castillejos); 25.2 (Massimiliano Dettori; Carlos Grande; Rosa Requena; Daniel Bonnici; Bernat Iglesias; Ángel Bereje; Luis Albero; Guillem de los Santos; Marcos Real; Tomàs García); 26.2 (Manuel A. Macias; David Sánchez; Aitor Mora); 27.2 (Manuel Salas; Carlos Gutiérrez-Expóstio); 28. 2 (García de los Ríos; Yanina Maggiotto)

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