Rare Birds in Spain. Bird news 1-10 June 2023

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

1-10 June 2023

 

Ducks & Geese

Waders

9.6.2023 Xenus cinereus 1 ind Ría de San Martín, EDAR Vuelta Ostrera, Cantabria  (Abel Ojugas Diaz, Francisco Rivas; Francisco Solano)

 

10.6.2023 Phalaropus lobatus 1 ind Villafáfila lagoons, Revellinos, Zamora  (Alfonso Rodrigo –photo- https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/583174601 ; José Barrueso, Juan José Gonzalez; José Javier Orduña; José Miguel San Román)

 

Herons

 

1.6.2023 Egretta gularis  1 ind Els estanys de Platja d’Aro, Baix Empordà, Girona. Still present (Lourdes Torres, Rosa Matesanz); 2.6 (Pablo Pascual); 3.6 (Gerard Ramionet; Núria Formatger, Sussi Abel, Daniel González, Josep Barbarà); 4.6 (Carlos Àlvarez-Cros; Thibaud Daumal); 5.6 (Joan Pujol); 6.6 (Sergi Sales); 7.6 (Oriol Clarabuch); 8.6 (Carlos Álvarez-Cros); 9.6 (Carlos Álvarez-Cros ; Pedro Plans https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/582889801 ), 10.6 (Abraham Álvarez; Carlos Álvarez-Cros)

 

Raptors

Seabirds

 

8.6.2023 Thalasseus albidorsalis 1 ind Huelva (George Schreier –photo-)


 

10.6.2023 Thalasseus albidorsalis 1 ind Los Cristianos, Tenerife, Canary Islands (Sergio Hernández –photo-)

 


 

1.6.2023 Synthliboramphus antiquus 1 ind Odiel river mouth, Huelva. Coming from 24.5. (César San Segundo); 3.6 (Maria Diaz Muñoz; José Martin;  Carmen; Pablo Barrena; Miguel Campos; AntonioJe Entrena; Sandra Pérez; Celestino Gonzalez; Paulo Alves; Jorge  Safara; José Godinho; Javier Martínez de Aramayona; Tomás García – photo-  https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/581148711 ; Borja De Madariaga; Ramon Ruiz; Juan Luis Muñoz; Esther Yera) ; 4.6 (Carlos Carmona;- Ángela Ruiz Delgado; Carlos Miguel; Guillermo Risco; Miguel Rodríguez Esteban; Dani Hernández; David Sánchez Canto; César San Segundo); 5.6 (Delfín González; Sergio González Fabiano; Samuel de la Torre; Ana Rivas; Clemente Álvarez Usategui; Mick Richardson); 7.6 (Teresa Cohen); 8.6 (Georg Schreier); 9.6 (Ignacio Fernandez Otero; José Manuel Jiménez; Francisco Becerra; Francisco Rivas; Tamara Ortega); 10.6 (Elena Vs, Ricky Owen; Antonio Méndez, Ángel Luis Méndez; Mónica Guerreiro; Alexandre Guerreiro; Daniel Maza; Alberto Sewjee)

 

 Passerines and others

3.6.2023 Junco hyemalis  1 ind Montferrer i Castellbó, Alt Urgell, Lleida (Pep Farràs @ twitter, -photo- ), 1st for Catalonia and Spain.

 




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Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus ), 1st for Spain, 3rd for the Western Palearctic

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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 near the pl
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Rare Birds in Spain. Bird News 21-31 December 2023

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  Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat, observado.es, birdingemporda.com and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group   Ducks & Geese   26.12.2023 Branta bernicla hrota 2 ind, Santoña, Cantabria (Javier Train –photo-)   21.12.2023 Cygnus cygnus   2 ind Ría de Betanzos; A Coruña. Still present (Xabier Vázquez Pumariño; Cristina Soto); 22.12 (Javier Río); 23.12 (Daniel García Novo); 24.12 (Franqui Illanes –photo-; Ramón Ternero); 25.12 (Leticia Miranda); 26.12 (Javier Río; Jorge Vilas); 28.12 (Diego Montenegro);   29.12 (Carlos Durán; Francisco Rodal); 30.12 (Carmen Peñalver, Juno Toni); 31.12 (Xavier Parra).     24.12.2023 Cygnus cygnus 1 ind Urdaibai, Bizkaia. Still present (A.Galache).   30.12.2023 Spatula discors 1 1w Fuerteventura golf club, Antígua, Fuerteventura. Still present (Eliseo Reyes).   21.11.2023 Anas rubripes   1 male. Sada, A Coruña. Still present (Xabier Vázquez Pumariño; Cristina Soto); 22.12 (Javier Río); 28.12 (Diego Monten
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Grackles (Quiscalus) in the Iberian peninsula

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Quiscalus mexicanus , Mexico, 31.8.2007 © Ricard Gutiérrez Grackles (genus Quiscalus ) are birds from Icteridae family, typical of Neotropical region, but also present in the Holartic, including USA coast. Typical 'resort' birds known by many as those 'black' birds frequenting the tables of hotels in the Caribbean or Mexican coasts trying to steal food from customer's breakfast or lunch.  Not a typical long-distance migrant group, they are believed to be quite intelligent, in a rather Corvidae mood, so despite they cannot be considered as true vagrants to the Palearctic according to the uncapability of crossing by themselves the Atlantic, it is true that they (presumably) board on ships to do the crossing. And not only one species but, at least, two having been recorded in Gibraltar and mainland Spain.  E-listed in Europe due to the 'current rules', a review of the treatment of what A listing means regarding 'clever' birds such as Corvidae
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