Rare Birds in Spain Bird News 21-31.10.2023

 

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

 


 

Ducks & Geese

 

22.10.2023 Branta bernicla hrota 6 ind, Ría de O Burgo, A Coruña. Still present ( Ignacio Aparicio); 26.10 (Ignacio Aparicio https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/610399069 ).

 

 

21-28.10.2023 Spatula discors 1 1w Fuerteventura golf club, Antígua, Fuerteventura (Eliseo Reyes). Confirmed 27.10.2023 (J.A. Sarry –photo-), 30.10 (J.A. Sarry).

 


 

 

21.10.2023 Anas rubripes  1 male. Esteiro do Mandeo, A Coruña. Still present. Same bird as seen before at Sada (Amadeo Antonio Pombo).

 

22.10.2023 Aythya affinis 1 ind Encoro de Cecebre--Cola Norte, A Coruña. Still present (Xose Manoel Carregal; Adrian Bartolomé, Javier Sampedro); 23.10 (Cosme Damián Romay, Pablo Lado); 24.10 (Pablo García, Amadeo Antonio Pombo, Dorindo Pérez); 25.10 (Javier Río); 27.10 (Amadeo Antonio Pombo, Juno Toni); 29.10 (Xose Manoel Carregal).

 

23.10.2023 Aythya affinis 1 ind Traba lagoon, Traba, A Coruña (Adrián Bartolomé).

 

30.10.2023 Aythya affinis 1 ind Embalse de los Molinos, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Still present (Juan Carlos Prieto).

 

Waders

 

 

24.10.2023 Pluvialis dominica 1 ind Faro y Salinas de Fuencaliente, La Palma, Canary Islands (Bastian Mayer)

 

21.10.2023 Limnodromus scolopaceus 1 ind El Hondo, Alicante. Still present (Miguel Angel Andrés, Toni Mulet, Miguel Sabio, Jana Marco. Eugenio Castillejos, Jesús Ruiz Rodrigo, Xurxo Piñeiro); 22.10 (Fernando Enrique Navarrete, Darío Gijón, Pau Lucio); 24.10 (Borja Candela, Marcos Real, Jana Marco); 26.10 (Irene M. Arnaldos, Jana Marco, Eugenio Castillejos); 29.10 (Paul Horton, Julia Horton, Stefan Aki Ragnarsson, Oriol Palau, Jana Marco; Marcos Real); 30.10 (Mark Simmonds)

 

28.10.2023 Tringa flavipes 1 ind El Hondo, Alicante (Stefan Aki Ragnarsson https://ebird.org/checklist/S153253879, Mark Simmonds); 29.10 (Jana Marco, Oriol Palau; Marcos Real)

 

31.10.2023 Tringa flavipes 1 ind Parc Natural des Salobrar, Campos, Mallorca (Biel Bernat, Toni Soler)

 

 

Herons

 

Raptors

 

27.10.2023 Buteo rufinus  1 ind Es Blanquer de Maria, Mallorca, Illes Balears (Maties Rebassa –photo-); 29.10 (Pep Manchado, Biel Bernat, Susana Costitx); 30.10 (Toni Soler); 31.10 (Toni Luque).




Rallidae

 

Seabirds

 

28.10.2023 Leucophaeus pipixcan 1w, EDAR Vuelta Ostrera, Ría de San Martín, Cantabria (Antonio Rodríguez Arduengo; Jesús García, Jorge Peláez, Pedro Arratibel, Chencho Fernández, Abel Ojugas); 29.10 (Fernando Arce, Juan Manuel Pérez de Ana https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/610515461 , Antonio Rodríguez Arduengo, Francisco Javier Calvo, Pablo González-Ocio, José Velasco, Jesús Menéndez, María Díaz, Guillermo Piñal, Chencho Fernández, Marcos Cruz, Bruno Kovács, Jon Iratzagorria, Abel Ojugas); 30.10 (Manuel Hermosilla, Raúl Granados, Rosario Mendoza); 31.10 (Ricardo Martínez; Iñigo López Areal, Luis López Areal, Gorka Ocio).

 

 

31.10.2023 Larus smithsonianus 1 ad Ría de Lires, A Coruña. ‘Barrilete’, returning adult (Pablo García https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/610591396 ).

 

 

Passerines and others

 

22.10.2023 Chordeiles minor 1 ind Praias de Monduiña y Fuchiños, Vigo (Paulo Lago); 23.10 Identified by Tito and Rafa Salvadores; seen (Marcos Prada, Rafael Costas, Javier Escudero, César Vidal, Paulo Lago, Pablo Pita, Manuel Velasco and others); 25.10 (Manuel Velasco, Clemente Álvarez Usategui); 26.10 (Marcos Prada –photo-, Rafael Costas, Manuel Velasco, José Alberto Fernández Ugarte, Iker Fernández, Xurxo Piñeiro, Pablo Olivares); 27.10 (Jon Iratzagorria, Diego Santamaría; Ana Rivas, Nicolás Magdalena, Saúl Román); 28.10 (Xabier Vázquez Pumariño, Alejandro Sanz); 29.10 (Alejandro Sanz, Diego Montenegro; Rafael Costas); 31.10 (Antón Santos, Lois Santos, Xabi Varela, Cosme Damián Romay).

 


 

20.10.2023 Megaceryle alcyon 1 ind Paseo Lea, Lekeitio, Bizkaia. Still present (David Hurtado); 22.10 (José Maria Ayuela); 23.10 (Delfín González https://ebird.org/checklist/S152891734 , Juan Carlos Andrés); 24.10 (Juan Carlos Andrés); 27.10 (Andrés Alfaro, Samuel Aunión); 28.10 (Juan Carlos Andrés; Alfredo Sánchez Galán, Ángela de Castro, Fátima Romero, Raúl Granados, Juan Ricardo Villora); 29.10 (José Ignacio Sáenz, Samuel Aunión).

 

 

 

24.10.2023 Acrocephalus agrícola 1 ind Manilva river mouth, Málaga (Andrés Rojas https://ebird.org/checklist/S152999707 , Ignacio Barrionuevo); 25.10 (Sergio Briones, Sergio González); 26.10 (Ricky Owen, Álex Colorado); 31.10 (Kevin Wade).

 

 

23.10.2023 Curruca curruca 1 ind Paseo Marítimo de Cariño, A Coruña (José Miguel Alonso Pumar; Ricardo Hevia) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/610290550

 

29.10.2023 Corvus cornix 1 ind Llagostera, still present (Gerard Ramionet)

 

30.10.2023 Corvus cornix 1 ind Medina-Sidonia, Cádiz (Mario Durán).

 

23.10.2023 Passer luteus 1 ind Dunas de Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Canary islands (Miguel Hernández https://ebird.org/checklist/S152912980 ); 26.10 (Miguel Hernández); 27.10 (Miguel Hernández, Josefa Díaz); 28.10 (Xabier Ramírez; Niklas Zander); 29-31.10 (Miguel Hernández; José Manuel Caballero –on 30.10-).

 

 

22.10.2023 Calcarius lapponicus 1 ind Cabu Peñes, Gozón, Asturias (Manuel Antonio Suárez Caballero https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/610253922) ; 31.10 (Manuel Antonio Suárez Caballero).

 

 

23.10.2023 Emberiza pusilla 1 ind Bigues i Riells, Barcelona (Artur Morales); 24.10 (Jaume Campderròs, Ramon Grimalt, Arnau Bonan, Pablo Pascual, Arnau Pedrocchi, Vittorio Pedrocchi); 26.10 (Óscar Martínez, Oriol Cabrero, Freddy Rivas); 27.10 (Ramiro Aibar;  Josep Crusafont, Sergi Arís); 28.10 (Joel Soto, Bernat Iglesias, Pau Gabriel, Oriol Palom, Sergi Sales, Xavier Parra, Martí Gonzàlez, Diego Ruiz, Eva Asensio, Jero Soto,Daniel Bonnici, Ramón Ruiz Jarillo, Manel González, Manolo Romero), 29.10 (Bernat Garrigós, Marc Gàlvez, Ferran López, Otger Fortià, Mireia Pintado, Sergio Hoces, Jordi Sala, Guillem Izquierdo, Eugeni Capella, Miquel Bonet, Marcos Martín, Karla López, Eva Asensio).

 

31.10.2023 Emberiza pusilla 1 ind Parque Princesa Sofía, La Línea, Cádiz (Antonio Jesús Sepúlveda https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/610587723 ).

 

 

 

25.10.2023 Emberiza rustica 1 1w trapped and ringed, Les Madrigueres, El Vendrell, Tarragona (Manel Bonilla, Ramón Ruiz Jarillo, Arnau Pedrocchi, Xavier Parra). –foto-.

 


 

 

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