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

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

 

 

Ducks & Geese

 

4.7.2024 Melanitta perspicillata 1 ind Ría de Foz, Lugo. Still present (Anonymous eBirder)

 

Waders

 

2.7.2024 Cursorius cursor 1 juvenile Playa del Torreguadiaro, Cádiz (Miguel González; Ignacio Barrionuevo; Rafael García, Miguel Ángel Mora, Ricky Owen –photo-; Julio Ortega, Antonio Jesús Sepúlveda, Andrés Rojas; Miguel Juan); 3.7 (Niki Williamson, Simon Tonkin; Sergio González); 4.7 (Francisco Becerra, Fernando Portillo; Juan Rodríguez, Tamara Ortega)

 

 

 

2.7.2024 Pluvialis fulva  1 ad El Prat de Llobregat, Llobregat Delta, Barcelona (Daniel López, Ferran Pujol, Ferran López; Annabel Valledor); 3.7 (Juan Miguel Díaz -photo- ; Ferran López)

 

 

Herons

 

Raptors

 

Rallidae

 

Seabirds

 

30.6.2024 Sula sula 1 ind North Atlantic Ocean ES (42.4928,-9.1289), A Coruña (Manuel Fernández-Bermejo, Mac Aragón, Xabier Vázquez Pumariño –photos-)

 

 

4.7.2024  Sula leucogaster 1 ind immature Isla de las Palomas, PN Estrecho, Cádiz (Ignacio Barrionuevo)

 

2.7.2024 Leucophaeus atricilla 2 cy Guadalhorce river mouth, Málaga (Raaland Burke –photo-)

 

 

6.7.2024 Leucophaeus atricilla 1 ind Islas Cíes, Pontevedra (Antonio Ceballos –photo-). Returning bird.

 

 

1.7.2024 Thalasseus elegans 1 ind Guadalhorce river mouth, Málaga (Javier Escobedo; Joseph Bliss)

 

3.7.2024 Thalasseus elegans 1 ind Santa Pola saltpans, Alicante (Toni Zaragozí; Alex Marmol; David Hurtado; Jannick Forquignon); 2 birds 6.7 (Miguel Sabio; Marcos Real –photo-; Elias Gomis; Daniel Valero); 8.7 (Marina Pachón; Daniel Dumas; José Mª Criado); 9.7 (Mark Simmonds); 10.7 (Miguel Ángel García, Eugenio Castillejos)

 

 

9.7.2024 Thalasseus elegans 1 ind at sea Huelva (37.1525,-6.8982), Huelva (Juanjo Cipriano). Quoted as ‘sp’ but elegans for sure.

 

 

3.7.2024 Thalasseus elegans x sandvicensis 1 ind Santa Pola saltpans, Alicante (Jannick Forquignon); 8.7 (José Mª Criado –photo-)

 

 

6.7.2024 Thalasseus elegans x sandvicensis 1 ind Racó de l’Olla, Albufera de València (Joan Balfagón).

 

 

 Passerines and others

 

2.7.2024 Corvus cornix (only records off Catalonia featured) 1 ind Cabo de Gata NP, Almería (Raimundo Martín, Simón RC, David Cristóbal –photo-). Found the day before by an unknown observer.

 

 

2.7.2024 Passer luteus 1 ind at Playa del Inglés, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Still present (Guillem Izquierdo, Arnau Pedrocchi –photo-)

5.7.2024 Emberiza sahari 2 ind Algeciras (singing ♂ + ♀), Cádiz (Ángel Luis Méndez, Antonio Méndez); 9.7 2 ind (Antonio Jesús Sepúlveda).

 

 

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