Rare Birds in Spain. Bird News 1-10 February 2024

 

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

 

Ducks & Geese

 

 

10.2.2024 Anser serrirostris  1 ind Embalse de Búrdalo, Cáceres. Still present (José Arcadio Calvo, photo)

 

 

2.2.2024 Cygnus cygnus  2 ind Sada beach; A Coruña. Still present (Javier Río)

 

2.2.2024 Spatula discors 1 1w♂ Algeciras, Cádiz. Still present (Miguel Juan) to 9.2 (Leo Damrow)

 

8.2.2024 Spatula discors 1 1w Fuerteventura golf club, Antígua, Fuerteventura. Still present (Mark Cutts)

 

10.2.2024 Anas rubripes  1 male. Sada, A Coruña. Still present (Javier Río)

 

3.2.2024 Anas carolinensis 1 ind Charca de Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Still present (José Manuel Caballero), 9.2 (José Manuel Caballero)

 

3.2.2024 Aythya affinis 1 ad ♂ La Oliva pond, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Still present (Óscar Martínez; Wojciech Miczajka; Llado Coia); 4.2 photo (Peter Hines) to 10.2 (Eliseo Reyes).

 

 

 

3.2.2024 Aythya affinis 1 ind Ría de Ribesella/Ría de Ribadesella, Asturias. Still present (Patari Piñón) to 8.2 (Clemente Álvarez Usategui


2.2.2024 Melanitta perspicillata 1 1w ♂  Faro de Guardamar, Alicante. Still present (Eugenio Castillejos) to 10.2 (Lucas de las Heras, Miguel Sabio, Daniel Valero).

 

2.2.2024 Mergus merganser 1 ♂ Nules, Castelló. Still present (Ricardo Villora)

 

Waders

 

3.2.2024 Pluvialis fulva 1 ind Migjorn, ind Sant Jaume d’Enveja, Delta de l’Ebre, Montsià, Tarragona. Relocated (Josep Tantull, Roser Solé; Ponç Feliu; Bernat Iglesias, Daniel Bonnici)

 

3.2.2024 Limnodromus scolopaceus  1 ind Sant Jaume d’Enveja, Delta de l’Ebre, Montsià, Tarragona. Relocated (Josep Tantull, Roser Solé; Ponç Feliu; Xavier Parra; Eloi de San Martín; Bernat Iglesias, Daniel Bonnici)

 

4.2.2024 Limnodromus scolopaceus 2 ind Veta la Palma, Doñana, Sevilla (J.A. Sencianes)

 

7.2.2024 Actitis macularius 1 ind Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Still present (Xabier Remirez, photo)

 

 

6.2.2024 Tringa flavipes 1 ind Barranco de la Florida, Tuineje, Fuerteventura. Still present (Godfried Schreur) to 7.2 (Peter Hines)

 

3.2.2024 Tringa flavipes 1 ind Arroyo de las Cañas, Guadalhorce river basin, Málaga. Still present (Leo Damrow; Anders Kvalvåg Wollan), Photo 6,2 (Antonio Tamayo) to 10.2 (Juan Ramírez)

 

 

 

Herons

 

Raptors

 

8.2.2024 Clanga clanga 1 ind Dehesa de Abajo, PN Doñana, Sevilla (Manuel Bárcena)

 

Rallidae

 

6.2.2024 Porphyrio alleni The 1w found at Badalona, Barcelona on 16.1 and recovered at Torreferrussa Recovery Center was released at Filipines Marsh, Llobregat delta (Ricard Gutiérrez -photo-, Hubert Mas, Ponç Feliu, Daniel González, Joan Capdevila, Sergi Torné, Armand Ramal, Enric de Roa, Elena Obón and others).

 


 

7.2.2024 Porphirio alleni 1 ad reported having been found inprevious days at Barranco de Arguineguin, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands and brought into recovery (Reported by Pascual Calabuig).

 

 

Seabirds

 

 

3.2.2024 Sula leucogaster 1 ad La Platjola beach, Amposta, Delta de l’Ebre, Tarragona (Ramón Ruiz)

 

2.2.2024 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind ad Carnota, Lira, A Coruña. Still present (Amadeo A. Pombo)

 

2.2.2024 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind 1w, Costa Ballena, Cádiz. Still present (Jesús Fernández Mejías, Arturo Montes, Pablo Barrena –photo- ; Daniel Maza) to 8.2 (Rafael García)

 

 

4.2.2024 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind ad Bilbao, Euskadi, still present (Víctor Escribano Gordillo, David Guillén) to 10.2 (Sergio GM).

 

6.2.2024 Leucophaeus pipixcan  1 ind Santoña, Cantabria (Sergio Gallego, David Gutiérrez-Solana).

 

2.2.2024 Larus smithsonianus 1 ad ‘Barrilete’. Returning adult. Lires, A Coruña  (Amadeo A. Pombo)

 

 Passerines and others

 

4.2.2024 Corvus albus 1 ind Cabo de Gata, Almería (Javier Garrido Romero, photo)

 

 

7.2.2024 Corvus cornix 1 ind Medina Sidonia, Cádiz. Still present (Javier Salcedo)

 

 

1.2.2024 Phylloscopus humei 1 ind Parc del Laberint d’Horta, Barcelona (Paul Tufvesson; Jaume Campderròs; Gabriel Patinyo) to 10.2 (Joan Cortés, Antonio Rodríguez Sinovas). Still present to 10.2 (Antonio Rodríguez-Sinovas). Photo 4.4 (Ramón Ruiz Jarillo)

 



3.2.2024 Motacilla tschutschensis 1 ind Migjorn, Sant Jaume d’Enveja, Delta de l’Ebre, Tarragona.  Probable returning bird. Still present  (Ponç Feliu)

 

1.2.2024 Emberiza pusilla 8 ind La Janda, Cádiz. Still present  5 ind (Raimundo Martín –photo-) to 10.2 (Leo Damrow).

 

 

1.2.2024 Emberiza rustica, 5 ind La Janda, Cádiz (Raimundo Martín); Photo 5.2 (Faustino Chamizo) to 7.2 (Antonio Anta).

 

 

4.2.2024 Zonotrichia albicollis 1 ind Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona (Àlex López). Present at least for a month until it was been properly identified. Still present (Ponç Feliu)

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

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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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