Rare Birds in Spain. Bird news 21-31 May 2023

 

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

21-31 May 2023


Ducks & Geese

 

20.5.2023 Spatula discors  1 male Villafáfila, Zamora  (Maricruz Gutiérrez). Continues the Zamora drake. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/575970501 ; 22.5 (David Calleja); 24.5 (José Barrueso); 25.5 (Ángel Gómez Mendoza; Alfredo Valiente)


 

28.5.2023 Anas rubripes 1 ind Esteiro do Mandeo, A Coruña (Antón Santos). The same drake 2cy that wintered in Sada

 

 Waders

 

21.5.2023 Gallinago media 1 ind Estanys del Matà, Aiguamolls de l’Empordà, Alt Empordà, Girona (Jana Marco, Oriol Palau) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/575262511 ; 22.5 (Carles Oliver; Bernat Garrigós; Jordi Montull); 23.5 (Xavier Parra, Ramón Ruiz)


 

 

Herons

 

27.5.2023 Egretta gularis  1 ind Els estanys de Platja d’Aro, Baix Empordà, Girona (Gerard Ramionet; Oriol Palau, Carlos Álvarez Cros, Jana Marco https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/577973931; Ferran López, Mireia Pintado, Pau Gabriel ), 28.5 (Xavier Parra; Manolo García); 30.5 (Bernat Garrigós; Jaume López Puigbó), 31.5 (Ramon Ruiz).

 

 

 Raptors

 

Seabirds

 

26.5.2023 Thalasseus elegans  1 ind Platja del Pinet, Alicante (José Maria Ayuela)

26.5.2023 Thalasseus elegans x sandvicensis 1 ind Racó de l’Olla, Albufera de València (Toni Alcocer, Yanina Maggiotto)

 

24.5.2023 Synthliboramphus antiquus 1 ind Odiel river mouth, Huelva (Roland Bekkers); 25.5 (José Luís Anguita, Manuel Bárcena, Juanjo Cipriano, Alfonso Barragán, José Manuel Reyes; Francisco Rivas; Günther Klonner, Tim Appleton; Helder Cardoso, João Tiago Tavares, Julio Ortega, AJ Sepúlveda, Miguel Rodrigues, José Antonio Sencianes; José Manuel Méndez, Ricardo Martín- Baylo García, Fernando del Valle, Mario Martín, Paco Chiclana, Renato Bagarrão, Nelson Conceição, Titina Manzano, Carlos Moreno, Vicent Esteller, Fernando Enrique Navarrete; Nelson Fonseca); 26.5 (Francisco Rivas; Demetrio Aguado; Juan Antonio Dominguez; Adelino García, Alberto Plata; Jesús M.  Medina; Félix  Arribas Del Álamo; Fernando Portillo; Bruno Asencio; Javier Paricio, José Manuel  Fernández, Faustino Chamizo, Fátima Garrido; Toni Pons; Jose Luis Arriaza, Raúl  Granados; Rafael García, Miguel Juan; Juan Miguel González, Chari Braza, Rafael García Costales, Juan Miguel Gónzalez, José Mª Lubián -photo-); 27.5 ( Massimiliano Dettori, Antonio Aguilera, Hugo Sánchez, Raquel Lozano, Jose Carlos Rodriguez, David Guillén, Gonzalo Rodriguez, José A. Campos, Juan Ramírez, José Luis Arroyo, José Alberto Fernández Ugarte, Iker Fernández Martínez, Manuel Silva, Javier Garcia Gómez, Antonio Núñez, Fernando Garcia, Antonio Ceballos, Niki Williamson, Simon Tonkin, Daniel Izquierdo, Adrián M., Rogério Rodrigues, Frederico  Morais, António Gonçalves, Pedro Marques, Daniel Saldaña, Juan Carlos Fernandez, José Portillo, Enrique Práxedes ), 28.5 (Alexandre Guerreiro, Mónica Guerreiro, Ángel Dolón,  Stefan Aki Ragnarsson, Jaime Garcia Astorga, Xavier Rovira, Jose Zarapico, Alexandre Hespanhol Leitão, Filipe Canário, Gonzalo Astete, Santiago Caballero); 29.5 (Andrés Alfaro, Julen Santa Cristina,  Scott Schuette, Francisco José Del Río, Antonio Tamayo, Juanjo Cipriano, Beñat Guevara, Guillermo López; Teresa Rey, Blas López); 30.5 (Pierre-André Crochet, Lars Gonçalves, Susana Almeida, Javier  Salcedo, Juanjo Cipriano, Juan Oñate, Ignacio Barrionuevo, ) ; 31.5 (Jesús Menéndez, Elena Vs, Pierre-André Crochet). See the special page here.

 


 

Passerines and others

25.5.2023 Lanius (excubitor) pallidirostris 1 ind Villafáfila, Zamora (Jesús Calderón). Identified on 26.5 (Alfonso Rodrigo, photo); 27.5 (Miguel AGM,  Juan José González; Gary Losada, Jose Miguel  San Román, Manuel Segura, Víctor Salvador), 28.5 (Alejandro Sanz; José Barrueso; Kike Junco; Christopher Stamp, Alfonso Rodrigo); 29.5 (Alberto Laiz, Carlos Diez, Miguel Diez)

 


 

25-26.5.2023 Emberiza melanocephala  1 ind La  Bisbal d’Empordà, Girona (Otger Fortià) https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/577517401

 

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

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