Rare Birds in Spain. Bird news 11-20 April 2023

 

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


11-20 April 2023

 

Ducks & Geese

12-20.4.2023 Mareca americana 1 female Xunqueira do Lagares, Vigo, Pontevedra, coming from January (Manuel Velasco, photo)

 

 

 

20.4.2023 Aythya afinnis  Embalse de los Molinos, Fuerteventura, Canary Is. 1 m still present (Samuel Hilaire; Óscar Frias)  

 

Waders

13.4.2023 Tringa flavipes 1 ind El Hondo, Alicante (Marcos Rodrígue; Luna Redondo, Óscar Aldeguer –photo-), 14.4 (Claudio Amorós); 16.4 (Oriol palau, Irene M. Arnaldos, Jana Marco), 17.4 (Pablo Perales, Raquel Perulero, Luís Correia), 18.4 ((Daniel Ferràndez i Castelló, Pablo Santonja, Marcos Real, Yanina Maggiotto), 19.4 (Oriol Palau, Jana Marco), 20.4 (Stefan Aki Ragnarsson, Susana Noguera)

 


Seabirds

11.4.2023 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind Guadalhorce river mouth, Málaga . Still present (Manuel García Ruiz –photo-; Andrew Wappat; Javier Salcedo ), 12.4 (Laura Marocchi), 13.4 (Patric Lorgé), 14.4 (Graeme Wright, Derek Etherton, Barbara Laycock, Jeremy Laycock; Antonio Tamayo), 15.4 (Miguel Senghor Machado; Huberto García; Graeme Wright)

 

 

11.4.2023 Thalasseus elegans  1 ind Albufera de València, València  (Yanina Maggiotto)

11.4.2023 Thalasseus elegans  1 ind Santa Pola Saltpans NP, Alicante (Virgilio Beltrán, Jana Marco, photo), 12.4 (Pablo Perales, Manuel Carrascosa, Luis Navarro, Jose del Rey, Miguel Ángel  Berbegal), 13.4 (Gonzaga Santiesteban), 14.4 (Marcos Rodríguez; Mark Simmonds -2 birds-), 15.4 (Luís Correia; Marcos Rodríguez, Luna Redondo, Dominique Bayne), 16.4 (Stefan Aki Ragnarsson -2 birds-; Dominique Bayne), 17.4 (Daniel Dumas -2 birds- ; Elias Gomis), 18.4 (Yanina Maggiotto -4 birds-, Oriol Palau, Jana Marco -2 birds-),  20.4 (Stefan Aki Ragnarsson).  

 

 

Passerines and others

 

13.4.2023 Curruca curruca 1 ind Horts Urbans, Premià de Mar (Alexis Bukowski)

10.4.2023 Anthus hodgsoni 1 ind trapped and ringed, Isla Grosa, Murcia (ANSE @ facebook) 

11.4.2023 Oenanthe hispanica melanoleuca 1 ind Illa de l’Aire, Menorca, Illes Balears (SOM)

15.4.2023 Lanius isabellinus 1 ind Parc del Poblenou, Barcelona (Xavier Larruy). Widely twitched all day long. Photo Julio Ruiz.

 

 

13.4.2023 Phylloscopus humei  1 ind Eucaliptus beach, Amposta, Delta de l’Ebre, Tarragona. Still present (Tihomir Stefanov), 16.4 (Marcel Gil, Martí Franch, Manolo Sánchez-Blanch), 19.4 (Ricard Gutiérrez; Marcel Gil; Enric Fernández, photo), 20.4 (Oli Bailey; Sergi Sales).

© Ricard Gutiérrez

 

 

15.4.2023 Ficedula parva 1 ind Costa Teguise Golf Course, Lanzarote, Canary Islands (Aitor Gil, photo)


 

12.4.2023 Emberiza pusilla 1 ind Font de Forata-Pas de la Rabosa, Serra Aitana, Alicante (Miguel Sabio, photo).

 

 

 



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