Rare Birds in Spain. Bird News 11-20 February 2024

 

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

 

Ducks & Geese

 

 

12.2.2024 Anser serrirostris  1 ind Embalse de Búrdalo, Cáceres. Still present  (Lorenzo Alcántara) to 18.2 (Dani Hernández, Alba Andrés)

 

17.2.2024 Cygnus cygnus  2 ind Ría de Betanzos; A Coruña. Still present (Lois Santos)

 

11.2.2024 Spatula discors 1 1w♂ Algeciras, Cádiz. Still present (Francisco Becerra)

 

12.2.2024 Spatula discors 1 ind Golf Salinas de Antigua, Fuerteventura, Canary islands. Still present (Henning Petersen).

 

18.2.2024 Spatula discors 1 ind Laguna Huerta de las Pilas, Cádiz (Miguel Ángel Guirdo).

 

18.2.2024 Anas rubripes  1 male. Sada, A Coruña. Still present (Ignacio Aparicio)

 

12.2.2024 Anas carolinensis 1 ind Charca de Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Still present (Timme Nyegaard –photo-) to 18.2 (Ayoze Rodríguez, Miguel Hernández)

 

 

11.2.2024 Anas carolinensis 1 ind Embalse de la Granda, Gozón, Asturias (Clemente Álvarez Usategui –photo-, Ismael Romero)

 

 

14.2.2024 Aythya affinis  1w ♂ ind Ensenada de San Bartolomé, Santander, Cantabria. Still present (Gregorio Pérez Saavedra; Ángel Cano)

 

11.2.2024 Aythya affinis 1 ad ♂ La Oliva pond, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Still present (Eliseo Reyes), 15.2

 

11.2.2024 Aythya affinis 1 ind Embalse de los Molinos, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Still present (Tomaso Bisol), 12.2

 

11.2.2024 Aythya affinis 1 ind Ría de Ribesella/Ría de Ribadesella, Asturias. Still present (José Ballesteros)

 

13.2.2024 Melanitta perspicillata 1 1w ♂  Faro de Guardamar, Alicante. Still present (José Manuel Murcia, Miguel Ángel García) to 20.2 (Lukáš Váňa).

 

 

Waders

 

14.2.2024 Pluvialis fulva 1 ind Camí del Serrallo, Sant Jaume d’Enveja, Delta de l’Ebre, Montsià, Tarragona. Relocated (Mayca Martí)

 

12.2.2024 Numenius (phaeopus) hudsonicus  1 ind A Calostra, Tapia, Asturias (Pablo Miki –photo- https://ebird.org/checklist/S161330680 ) to 14.2 (Alberto Acero, Pablo Miki).

 

 

20.2.2024 Actitis macularius 1 ind Las Palmas harbour, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Pep Manchado). Still present.

 

11.2.2024 Tringa flavipes 1 ind Arroyo de las Cañas, Guadalhorce river basin, Málaga. Still present  (Antonio Román-Muñoz) to 20.2 (Armando Molina. Félix Arribas, Blas López, Javier Salcedo)

 

11.2.2024 Tringa flavipes 1 ind Barranco de la Florida, Tuineje, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Still present (Peter Jung) to 18.2 (David Bradnum)

 

 

Herons

 

Raptors

 

12.2.2024 Clanga clanga 1 ind El Rocío, PN Doñana, Huelva. Still present (Leo Damrow)

 

Rallidae

 

15.2.2024 Porphyrio alleni 1 ind Charca de Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Miguel Hernández –photo-). Recovered and released bird

 

 

Seabirds

 

11.2.2024 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind ad Bilbao, Euskadi, still present (Félix Arribas del Álamo; Josu Ibarra) to 17.2 (Ander Álvarez –photo-, Pablo Olivares)

 

 

15.2.2024 Chroicocephalus philadelphia 1 ind 1w, Costa Ballena, Cádiz. Still present (Daniel Alonso) to 18.2 (Mick Richardson)

 

14.2.2024 Larus fuscus fuscus 1 ind Armintza, Bizkaia. Reported (Jon Hidalgo)

 

Passerines and others

 

11.2.2024 Phylloscopus humei 1 ind Parc del Laberint d’Horta, Barcelona . Still present (Francesc Rivero, Martí González, Manel González, Robert Álvarez) to 19.2 (Sergi Sales) and later.

 

19.2.2024 Passer luteus 1 ind Parque Romántico, Playa del Inglés, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Relocated  (Mauro Bailo).

 

11.2.2024 Emberiza pusilla Up to 10 ind La Janda, Cádiz. Still present (Francisco Cabrera) to  18.2 (MIck Richardson).

 

16.2.2024 Emberiza rustica, 1 ind La Janda, Cádiz. Still present (Miguel Ángel Mora, Fernando Portillo, Maria Antonia García) to 19.2, 5 birds (Guillermo Piñal).

 

18.2.2024 Zonotrichia albicollis 1 ind Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona . Still present (Massimiliano Dettori)