Rare Birds in Spain. Bird News 11-20 February 2023

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)

18.2.2023 Aythya affinis  1 m Laguna de la Veguilla, Alcázar de San Juan, Ciudad Real coming from 27.1.2023 still there on 18.2 (Rodolfo Velasco; Beatriz Cortés, Javier Hernández); 19.2 (Alba Becerra. photo https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/537327941 )

 


Waders

16.2.2023 Pluvialis fulva  1 ind Migjorn, Sant Jaume d’Enveja, Delta de l’Ebre, Montsià, Tarragona (Marcel Gil); 18.2 (Juan Carlos Bellido)

14.2.2023 Charadrius semipalmatus  1 ind Las Maretas, Tenerife, Canary Is. Still present (Rebuen Braddock –photo- https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/535250981 ; Viorel Ilie-Arghius, Horatiu Stefanie) 15.2 (Lorenza Piretta); 18.2 (Richard Baxter)

 

12.2.2023 Limnodromus scolopaceus 1 ind El Serrallo, Sant Jaume d’Enveja, Delta de l’Ebre, Montsià, Tarragona (Kari Korhonen, Annika Vaaranto, Kari Norha, Jari Kontiokorpi, Tuula Kyllönen, Kari Norha, Jouko Poutanen)

11.2.2023 Tringa flavipes 1 ind Abama reservoir, Tenerife, Canary Is. Still present (Víctor Díaz); 15.2 (Lorenza Piretta) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/535549301 ; 18.2  (Richard Baxter; Nicole Janinhoff; Hans Verdaat)

 

 
Raptors

 

11.2.2023 Buteo rufinus rufinus 1 ind Font de Queralt, Segarra, Lleida. Still around (Ricard Gutiérrez, Helena Arbonés); 12.2 (Jaume Castellà); 15.2 (Carles Oliver, Nick Leiby); 20.2 (Arnau Bonan)


© Ricard Gutiérrez 11.2.2023


Seabirds

 

11.2.2023 Sula leucogaster 1 ind Las Acacias, Málaga (Antonio Román-Muñoz). Same bird seen in the área.

11.2.2023 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind Guadalhorce river mouth, Málaga (José A. Campos) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/534055961 ; 12.2 (Alain Beauchamp; Antonio Romero; Geoff Morgan; Salvador Romero; Blas López; Juan Ramírez; Mick Richardson); 13.2 (Armando Molina; Geoff Morgan; Teresa Subiza); 14.2 (Geoff Morgan; Juan Ramírez, Antonio Tamayo), 15.2 (Zbigniew Kajzer; Antonio Tamayo); 16.2 (Zbigniew Kajzer; Miguel Domínguez-Santaella; Teresa Subiza; Marina Guerrero); 19.2 (Juan Ramírez); 20.2 (Miguel Domínguez-Santaella)


12-15.2.2023 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind Ria de Ferrol, A Coruña (Daniel García Novo)

20.2.2023 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind Carnota, Lira, A Coruña (Raúl Granados). Still there.

13.2.2023 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind Urumea river, Donostia, Gipuzkoa (Xabier Saralegui –photo- https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/534792801 ; Joseba Amenabar, Carlos Monzón); 14.2 (Jon Mugica; Oliver Pérez); 15.2 (Bittor Mutiozabal; Ana Miranda de Lage; Ricardo Rodríguez; Jesús Mari Lekuona; Carlos Monzón); 16.2 (Nekane García); 17.2 (Alejandro Mariño); 18.2 (Javier Ferreres); 19.2 (Fran Baena).

 

12.2.2022 Larus glaucoides kumlieni 1w Castropol, Asturias (Daniel López-Velasco)

 

Passerines

 

14-19.2.2022 Phylloscopus humei  1 ind Parc del Laberint d’Horta, Barcelona. Still present (Jaume Campderròs); 19.2 (Mieria Torras).

11.2.2022 Acrocephalus agrícola  1 ind ringed L’Illa Nature Reserve, Sueca, València (Miguel Piera, Amparo Climent).

18.2.2023 Oenanthe deserti 1 ind Cabo de Gata, Almería. Still present (Simón RC, David CH) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/536433291 ; 20.2 (José Alberto Fernández Ugarte, Iker Fernández).

 

 

14.2.2023 Ficedula parva 1 ind Paseo del Parque, Málaga (José Antonio Cortés), seen later (José A.Campos), 15.2 (Ignacio Barrionuevo; José A. Campos, Juan Ramírez; Antonio Tamayo; Miguel Angel Martín, José A Cortés –photo- https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/535384641 ; Miguel Domínguez-Santaella); 16.2 (Miguel Senghor; José A. Campos; Vicente Malagón); 17.2 (Mick Richardson; José A. Campos); 18.2 (Ignacio Barrionuevo; Andrés Rojas); 19.2 (Miguel García, Ignacio Barrionuevo); 20.2 (José A.Campos)

 

11-18.2.2022 Anthus hodgsoni 1 ind A Corredoira, Cervo, Cedeira, A Coruña (Álvaro Pérez). Two birds on 18.2 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/536367531

 


12.2.2022 Motacilla tschutschensis 1 ind Guadaiza river mouth, Málaga (Mick Richardson), 13.2 (Derek Etherton, Barbara Laycock; Hunter S. Thompson, Jeremy Laycock); 14.2 (Ricky Owen –photo- https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/535220831 ; Antonio Tamayo; Ignacio Barrionuevo; Miguel Domínguez-Santaella); 16.2 (Andrés Rojas, Álex Colorado; Francisco José Del Río); 17.2 (Zbigniew Kajzer); 18.2 (Rafael García; Miguel Juan; Antonio Román Muñoz; Santiago Caballero; Gonzalo Astete; Isabel Gómez Carrasco; José Mª Lubián R. de Agredano); 19.2 (Miguel García; Yeray Seminario, Nereida Romero)

 

 

12.2.2023 Emberiza spodocephala 1 ind Sèquia nova de Silla, Albufera de València, València (Paco Villena). Still present. 12.2 (Manolo Salas, Ester Martí, Samuel Aunión, Juan Ricardo Villora, Gregorio Chaguaceda, Joan Balfagón, Andrés Balfagón, Arnau Rivera, Miquel Rivera; Toni Ramirez); 13.2 (Felipe Rosado, Biel Miquel, Mayca Martí, Virgilio Beltrán, Manolo Salas, Montse Ferrís, Toni Polo, Rafa Muñoz, Carlos Mompó; José Martín; Pablo Vera; Júlia Cerveró); 14.2 (Javier Train, Juan Carlos Albero; Yanina Maggiotto; Eugeni Capella, Miquel Bonet; Alba Sanjuán; maria Clara; Javier Paricio); 15.2 (Juan Sorli, Marta Cuesta); 16.2 (Felipe Rosado, Agustín Signoli; Daniel Izquierdo; Clemente Álvarez Usategui); 17.2 (Marta Ibañez; Xavier Parra; Alfredo Sánchez Galán; Luis Gracias; Ferran López, Mireia Pintado; Javier Vera, Susana Noguera, Rubén Piculo; Oriol Miquel; Yanina Maggiotto; Pilar Gil); 18.2 (Toni Polo, Montse Ferrís; Josep Bujons, Mireia Martín; Maria Antón; Alberto Remacha; Freddy Rivas; Susana Lois, Javier García Gómez; Gaspar Díaz; Ferran López; Mireia Pintado; Rubén Oliver; Susana Noguera, Chelsea Hockenbury; Deide Asbjorn; Ramón Ruiz, Albert Cama; Pilar Gil;  Rubén Chamizo, Juan Diego Acevedo, Jesús Ruiz); 19.2 (Mateo Ferrer, José Alberto Fernández Ugarte, Ramón Mille, Borja de Madariaga, Iker Fernández José Alberto Fernández, Oscar Llamas, Juan Carlos Fernández, Joan A. Ximenis; Pablo Perales; Jesús Carrión, Mario Navarro; Juan Carlos Fernández; Raphael Lebrun; Daniel Musitu); 20.2 (Joan Balfagón, Antonio M Abella, photo ; Pep Cantó; Delfín González; Guillem de los Santos).

 

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