Rare Birds in Spain. Bird News 1-10 April 2024
Ricard Gutiérrez (editor). Data from eBird, ornitho.cat, observado.es, birdingemporda.com and Rarebirdspain whatsapp group
Ducks & Geese
3.4.2024 Spatula discors 1 female Laguna Rodrigo, Segovia. Still present (Fernando Jubete); 4.4 (Jorge Leonor, Juan Ramón Cuervo)
7.4.2024 Spatula discors 1 ind Graveras de Santas Martas, León (L.Alberto Ramos –photo-). Seen later by others; 9.4 (Manuel Segura, Fabio Flechoso, Iker Fernández, José Alberto Fernández Ugarte, Kike Junco).
3.4.2024 Melanitta perspicillata 1 1w ♂ Faro de Guardamar, Alicante. Still present (Marcos Real, Daniel Dumas, Tadeusz Penru), 4.4 (Javier Train –photo-), 10.4 (José Manuel Murcia, José Mª Criado).
Waders
2.4.2024 Cursorius cursor 1 ind Rambla Amoladeras, Cabo de Gata, Almería (Javier Marquerie; Simón RC., David Cristobal –photo-), 7.4 (Andrés Balfagón)
6.4.2024 Pluvialis fulva 1 ind. Relocated, Migjorn grassfields, Delta de l’Ebre, Tarragona (Ricard Gutiérrez –photo-). Seen later too (Roger Solsona).
3.4.2024 Tringa flavipes 1 ind Barranco de la Florida, Tuineje, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Still present (José María Ayuela –photo-)
2.4.2024 Tringa flavipes 1 ind Arroyo de las Cañas, Guadalhorce river basin, Málaga. Still present (Annika Vaaranto, Kari Tornikoski, Jukka Kuru, Kari Korhonen, Jari Kontiokorpi, Ilpo Huolpan, Ari Linkolehto, Juha Lehtinen, Aarne Wahlgren); 8.4 (Andrés Serrano)
4.4.2024 Actitis macularius 1 ind Las Palmas de Gran Canaria harbour, Gran Canaria, Canary Is. (Niklas Zander –photo-; Andreas Hachenberg). Still present, 10.4 (Xabier Remirez).
Herons
Raptors
Rallidae
Seabirds
4.4.2024 Leucophaeus pipixcan 1 ind El Hondo, Alicante (Marcos Real –photo-)
6-7.4.2024 Larus smithsonianus 1 1w Tapia, Villamil, Asturias. Still present (Pablo Miki –photo-)
10.4.2024 Thalasseus elegans 1 ind PN Salinas de Santa Pola, Alicante (Mark Simmonds)
Passerines and others
8-9.4.2024 Oenanthe seebohmi 1 male ind Tahivilla, Cádiz (Guillermo Piñal -photo-; Eva Bratek, Francisco Solano)
5.4.2024 Ficedula parva 1 ind El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona (Daniel González).
6.4.2024 Ficedula albicollis 1 ind Sa Dragonera, Balearics (Jason Moss –photo-)
7.4.2024 Acrocephalus agricola 1 ind trapped and ringed, Albufera de València, València (Toni Polo –photo-)
1.4.2024 Phylloscopus humei 1 ind Parc del Laberint d’Horta, Barcelona . Still present (Jaume Campderròs), 6.4 (Marc Antón)
5.4.2024 Passer luteus 1 ind Parque Romántico, Playa del Inglés, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Still present (Marijn Weijer https://ebird.org/checklist/S167266410 ), 6.4 (Ayoze Rodríguez, Niklas Zander)
4.4.2024 Passer luteus 1 ind San Roque, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands. New bird (Juan Antonio Lorenzo –photo-).
2.4.2024 Emberiza pusilla, At least 6 ind La Janda, Cádiz. Still present (Blas López, José A. Campos, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Antonio Tamayo –photo-, Antonio Mostazo; Gonzalo Lage), 5.4 11 birds (Andrés Rojas), ten on 6.4 (Per Stensland), 2 on 9.4 (Henrik Böhmer; Manuel Tacke, David Manstrup)
4-5.4.2024 Emberiza pusilla, 1 ind Cáseda, Navarra (Javi Sola); 7.4 (Raul Pascual –photo-)
2.4.2024 Emberiza rustica, At least 1 ind La Janda, Cádiz. Still present (Andrés Rojas)