Rare Birds in Spain Blog

Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat. observado.es and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group  11-20.2.2023   Ducks & Geese   11.2.2023 Anas carolinensis   Valdoviño lagoon, A Coruñá (Lois Santos); 16.2 (José Manuel Mouriz) 18.2.2023 Spatula discors 1 male Charcas de Visvique, Gran Canaria, Canary Is. (Ayoze Rodríguez); 19.2 (Xabier Remirez; J.Marcos Benito; Pep Manchado); 19.2 (Alberto Aguiar) 11.2.2023 Mareca americana 1 female Xunqueira do Lagares, Vigo, Pontevedra (David Alonso), coming from last month. 2.2.2023 Aythya afinnis   Embalse de los Molinos, Fuerteventura, Canary Is. 1 m (Steve Lanchbury); 11.2 (Ferran López; Richard Baxter); 14.2 (Steve Grimwade); 19.2 (Miguel Hernández) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/536870591 ; 20.2 (Pep Manchado).   11.2.2023 Aythya afinnis   Cecebre reservoir, A Coruña 1 f (Ignacio Aparicio, Franqui Illanes). Wintering bird. 18.2 (Roberto Figueiras; Manuel Cernadas) ...

 Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group      1-10.2.2023   Ducks & Geese   2.2.2023 Cygnus cygnus 1 ind Valdoviño lagoon, A Coruña (Antonio Gutiérrez, Pablo Gutiérrez), 3.2 (Xabier Prieto). Wintering bird. 5.2 (David Chas) 2.2.2023 Anser serrirostris   2 ind Villafáfila lagoons (Alfonso Rodrigo). Coming from 2.12.2022. 5.2 (Seppo Hjerppe, photo https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/531834841 ) 4.2.2023 Anas rubripes 1 ind Sada, Ria de Betanzos, A Coruña (Xabi Varela). Wintering bird. 4.2 (Francisco Manuel Illanes; Ignacio Fernández Otero). 9.2 (Luís López Areal). 2.2.2023 Anas carolinensis   Valdoviño lagoon, A Coruñá 2 drakes (Antonio Gutiérrez, Pablo Gutiérrez),   4.2 (Francisco Manuel Illanes; Ignacio Fernández Otero), wintering bird., 6.2 (Dorindo Pérez, photo https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/532233591 ; Pablo Lado -2 birds-; 10.2 (Amadeo Antonio Pombo, Rubén Juiz...

Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group       21-31.1.2023   Ducks & Geese   21.1.2023 Anser serrirostris   2 ind Villafáfila lagoons (Luís Albero; Anxo Villalobos) 22.1 (José Barrueso, Carlos Díez, J.Javier Orduña; Miguel Díez), 28.1 (Manuel Rodríguez, Martín Rodríguez, Joan A. Ximenis; Juan Rodríguez, Juan José González, Miguel A GM), 29.1 (Aitor Mora, David Guillén; Víctor Alonso, Inés Garrido) 21.1.2023 Cygnus cygnus 1 ind Valdoviño lagoon, A Coruña (Delfín González; Daniel García Noivo), 23.1 (Xabier Vázquez Pumariño; Ignacio Aparicio), 25.1 (Aitor Mora), 26.1 (Javier RM) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/527510521 ), 28.1 (Daniel García Novo), 30.1 (Álvaro Pérez) 21-27.1.2023 Mareca americana 1 female Xunqueira do Lagares, Vigo, Pontevedra (Manuel Velasco https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/526522081 et al), 28.1 (Aitor Mora), 29.1 (Marcos Prada), 31.1 (Paulo Lago) 27.1.202...

  Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group      Ducks & Geese 13.1.2023 Anser serrirostris   2 ind Villafáfila lagoons (Gary Losada), 20.1 (Víctor Coello https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/526234301 , Vanesa Sotelo).   11.1.2023 Cygnus cygnus 1 ind Valdoviño lagoon, A Coruña (Daniel García Novo; Javier RM), 13.1 ( Leif Erikson , Paulo Lago), 14.1 (Álvaro Crego, Javier Rodríguez Escudero), 15.1 (José Ramón Castro, Felipe Yllanes; Xabier Prieto), 20.1(Delfín González https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/526234631 )   11.1.2023 Mareca americana 1 female Xunqueira do Lagares, Vigo, Pontevedra (Marcos Prada), 14.1 (Manuel Velasco, David Alonso), 15.1 (Manuel Velasco , https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/524295041 , David Alonso), 19.1 (Javier Rodríguez), 20.1 (Manuel Velasco).   11.1.2023 Anas rubripes 1 ind Sada, Ria de Betanzos, A Coruña (Felipe Yllanes),12.1 (David Calleja), 14.1 (...

Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group     1-10 January 2023 Ducks & Geese 2-7.1.2023 Anser serrirostris The birds coming from Villafáfila lagoon, Zamora, were still there on 2.1 (José Barrueso, Alfonso Rodrigo, photo https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/519540571 ), 3.1 (Jose Miguel   San Román, Dani G. Jambrina) and 7.1 (Alejandro Sanz).   2-8.1.2023 Cygnus cygnus The swan coming from 2022 was still at Valdoviño lagoon, A Coruña: 2-3.1 (Daniel García Novo), 4.1 (Daniel García Novo, José Ramón Castro, Sergio Mayordomo),   5.1 (Jose Martin, Jesús Risueño, Daniel Izquierdo, José Maria Paraíso), 7.1 (Diego Montenegro –photo- https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/521386151 , Ricardo Hevia), 8.1 (Antón Santos,Lois Santos, Ricardo Rojo, Adrián Bartolomé).  3-5.1.2023 Anas rubripes The drake coming from 2022 was still at Sada, Ría de Betanzos, A Coruña: 3.1 (Sergio Mayordomo), 4.1 (Daniel Izquierdo)...