Rare Birds in Spain Blog

On 24 May 2023, Roland Bekkers, photographed an Ancient Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus antiquus) at the Odiel river mouth , an important wetland in the Huelva province, in the Atlantic coast of Andalucia, S Spain. At 20:22 the same day the news came out and were broadcasted within the Rarebirdspain group. Despite the rarity of the record, a number of local birders decided to give it a try on 25 May morning.  Local birders asked to respect local colonies of Little Terns Sternula albifrons and Collared Pratincoles Glareola pratincola remaining within marked paths in any attempt of twitching the murrelet.  On 25 May, at 10:37 AM the bird was relocated c.400m from the mouth of the Mazagón Marina (José Luís Anguita, Manuel Bárcenas, Juanjo Cirpriano, Alfonso Barragán), UTM 37.138718, -6.841995 . See photos below (José Luís Anguita) and videos (José Manuel Reyes). Some boats flushed the bird c. 2000 m from the initial place and a bit later it flew a further 3000 m to the W remaining ne...

Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat, observado.es, birdingemporda.com and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group  1-10 May 2023 Ducks & Geese 2.5.2023 Spatula discors   1 female Valdoviño lagoon, A Coruña (Amadeo A Pombo, Rubén Juiz). Still present   Waders   7.5.2023 Pluvialis dominica 1 ind Arealonga, Lugo (Álvaro Crego https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/568316961 , Luis Javier Rodríguez, Diego Montenegro). Still present.   2.5.2023 Calidris falcinellus 1 ind Torre de l’Aufacada, Sant Jaume d’Enveja, Delta de l’Ebre, Montsià, Tarragona (Cristian Jensen, Eugeni Capella et al; Marcel Gil; Luís Carretero); 3.5 (Ramón Ruiz) 9.5.2023 Tringa flavipes 1 ind El Matà, Aiguamolls de l’Empordà, Alt Empordà, Girona ((Marga Esparch, Mireia Jiménez, Berto Minobis, Oriol Clarabuch, Luis J. Salaverri, Jordi Martí-Aledo) @birdingemporda.com); 10.5 (Marga Esparch, Elvira Morilla, Manuel Caamaño, Jordi Martí-Aledo; Gerard Dalmau ...

  Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat. observado.es and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group  11-20 April 2023   Ducks & Geese   23-27.4.2023 Mareca americana 1 female Xunqueira do Lagares, Vigo, Pontevedra, coming from January (Manuel Velasco, photo)  22.4.2023 Spatula discors   1 male Encoro de Cecebre, A Coruña (Juan Carlos Grandal), 23.4 (Diego Montenegro –photo-, Franqui Illanes, Antón Santos, Lois Santos, Álvaro Pérez, Jag Escariz, Pablo Lado), 24.4 (Ignacio Aparicio, Daniel García Novo, Juno Toni), 25.4 (Álvaro Crego, Javier R M), 26.4 (Manuel Segura), 27.4 (Daniel García Novo, Juan García Barreiro, José Emilio Oti, Juan García Barreiro), 28.4 (Amadeo Antonio Pombo), 29.4 (Adrián Bartolomé), 30.4 (Antonio Sandoval, Francisco Hervella, Ana Sainzdelatorre)     23.4.2023 Spatula discors   1 female Valdoviño lagoon, A Coruña (Xabier Vázquez Pumariño, Xabier Prieto, José Ramón Castro, Pablo Pita), 27.4...

  Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat. observado.es and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group  11-20 April 2023   Ducks & Geese 12-20.4.2023 Mareca americana 1 female Xunqueira do Lagares, Vigo, Pontevedra, coming from January (Manuel Velasco, photo)       20.4.2023 Aythya afinnis   Embalse de los Molinos, Fuerteventura, Canary Is. 1 m still present (Samuel Hilaire; Óscar Frias)     Waders 13.4.2023 Tringa flavipes 1 ind El Hondo, Alicante (Marcos Rodrígue; Luna Redondo, Óscar Aldeguer –photo-), 14.4 (Claudio Amorós); 16.4 (Oriol palau, Irene M. Arnaldos, Jana Marco), 17.4 (Pablo Perales, Raquel Perulero, Luís Correia), 18.4 ((Daniel Ferràndez i Castelló, Pablo Santonja, Marcos Real, Yanina Maggiotto), 19.4 (Oriol Palau, Jana Marco), 20.4 (Stefan Aki Ragnarsson, Susana Noguera)   Seabirds 11.4.2023 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind Guadalhorce river mouth, Málaga . Still prese...