COSTA BLANCA SPECIES GUIDE SPECIES COMMON/SCARCE/RARE WHEN PRESENT PREFERRED HABITAT COMMENTS. Scarce Winter Wetlands/at sea Breeds

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1 COSTA BLANCA SPECIES GUIDE SPECIES COMMON/SCARCE/RARE WHEN PRESENT PREFERRED HABITAT COMMENTS DIVERS AND GREBES Red throated Diver Rare Winter At sea Black throated Rare vagrant Winter At sea Diver Little Grebe Common All year Wetlands Black necked Scarce Winter Wetlands/at sea Grebe Great Crested Grebe Scarce Winter Wetlands/at sea SHEARWATERS PETRELS AND GANNETS Cory s Shearwater Scarce Passage At sea Balearic Common Passage At sea Shearwater Mediterranean Rare Winter At sea Shearwater European Storm Rare/localised Summer As sea/islets Petrel Gannet Common Winter/ At sea CORMORANTS Cormorant Common Winter Wetlands/at sea Shag (Mediterranean) Scarce Winter/ At sea/islets in HERONS AND EGRETS Great Bittern Rare Winter Wetlands Little Bittern Common Winter/ Wetlands Black Crowned Scarce Winter Wetlands Night Heron Cattle Egret Common All year Wetlands/farmland Squacco Heron Common Passage Wetlands Little Egret Common All year Wetlands/coast Great White Egret Scarce All year Wetlands/coast in small Grey Heron Common All year Wetlands Purple Heron Common Summer Wetlands Greater Flamingo Scarce All year Wetlands in

2 Lesser Flamingo Rare All year Wetlands White Stork Scarce Passage Anywhere Small Black Stork Rare Passage Anywhere Small Glossy Ibis Rare Winter Wetlands in small nos. Spoonbill Scarce All year Wetlands Mute Swan Rare All year Wetlands DUCKS AND WILDFOWL Greylag Goose Rare Winter Wetlands Small Shelduck Scarce All year Wetlands Mallard Common All year Wetlands Gadwall Scarce All year Wetlands Small Pintail Rare Winter Wetlands Small Shoveler Common Winter/ Wetlands Wigeon Rare Winter Wetlands Marbled Duck Scarce Summer/ Wetlands Teal Common Winter/ Wetlands Garganey Scarce Passage Wetlands Small Pochard Scarce Winter Wetlands in Red Crested Common Winter/ Wetlands Pochard White headed Rare All year Wetlands Duck Common Scoter Scarce Winter Wetlands/at sea Small Velvet Scoter Rare Winter At sea Ferruginous Duck Rare Winter Wetlands Tufted duck Scarce Winter Wetlands Small Ruddy duck Rare All year Wetlands Red breasted Merganser Scarce Winter Wetlands/at sea Small

3 VULTURES AND RAPTORS Griffon Vulture Rare All year Mountains/anywhere Black Vulture Rare Winter Anywhere Egyptian Vulture Rare Winter Anywhere Osprey Scarce Winter Wetlands Golden Eagle Common All year Mountains Greater Spotted Eagle Rare Winter Wetlands Small Short toed Eagle Scarce Passage Dry hills/anywhere in Booted Eagle Common Winter/ Wetlands/anywhere in Bonelli s Eagle Scarce All year Inland cliffs in Red Kite Rare Passage Woodland/open in Black Kite Rare Passage Anywhere Small Black shouldered Rare Passage Anywhere Kite Marsh Harrier Common Winter Wetlands Hen Harrier Scarce Winter Plains/farmland Small Montagu s Harrier Scarce Summer/ Wetlands Common Buzzard Common Winter/ Wetlands/woodlands in Honey Buzzard Scarce Passage Anywhere Small Sparrowhawk Scarce Winter/ Anywhere in Goshawk Rare All year Woodlands in Kestrel Common All year Anywhere Lesser Kestrel Rare Summer/ Open, Albacete area in Red footed Falcon Rare Passage Anywhere Small Eleanora s Falcon Rare Passage Sea cliffs Small Peregrine Falcon Common Winter/ Sea cliffs Small Hobby Rare Passage Wetlands/open Small - breeds? Merlin Scarce Winter/ Wetlands/open

4 PARTRIDGES AND PHEASANTS Red legged Partridge Common All year Anywhere SPECIES COMMON/SCARCE/RARE WHEN PRESENT PREFERRED HABITAT COMMENTS Quail Scarce Summer/ Fields Pheasant Rare All year Farmland Ring necked Pheasant Rare/localised All year Anywhere RAILS AND CRAKES Water Rail Common All year Wetlands Spotted Crake Scarce Passage Wetlands Small Moorhen Common All year Wetlands Coot Common All year Wetlands Red knobbed Coot Rare All year Wetlands Purple Swamphen Scarce All year Wetlands CRANES Common Crane Scarce Winter Wetlands/fields Small BUSTARDS Great Bustard Scarce All year Steppe, Albacete Little Bustard Scarce Winter/ Steppe, Alcanara area in WADERS Oystercatcher Rare Passage Wetlands/beaches Small Avocet Scarce All year Wetlands Black winged Stilt Common All year Wetlands Stone Curlew Scarce Winter/ Open Collared Pratincole Scarce Summer/ Wetlands Little Ringed Common Summer/ Wetlands/rivers Plover Ringed Plover Scarce Winter/ Wetlands/beaches Kentish Plover Common All year Wetlands/beaches

5 Grey Plover Scarce Winter/ Wetlands/beaches Golden Plover Scarce Winter Wetlands/open Dotterel Scarce Passage Wetlands/open Small Lapwing Common Winter Wetlands/fields in Sociable Lapwing Rare Passage Wetlands Sanderling Common Winter/ Beaches Knot Scarce Passage Beaches Turnstone Scarce Winter/ Wetlands/beaches Purple Sandpiper Scarce Winter Wetlands/beaches Dunlin Scarce Winter/ Wetlands/beaches Curlew Sandpiper Scarce Passage Wetlands Temminck s Stint Rare Winter/ Wetlands/rivers Small Little Stint Common Winter/ Wetlands Wood Sandpiper Common Winter/ Wetlands Small overwinter Green Sandpiper Common Winter/ Wetlands/ditches Common Sandpiper Common Winter/ Wetlands Small overwinter Redshank Common Winter/ Wetlands in Spotted Redshank Scarce Winter/ Wetlands Greenshank Common Winter/ Wetlands Marsh Sandpiper Rare Passage Wetlands Small Black tailed Scarce Winter/ Wetlands Godwit Bar tailed Godwit Rare Winter/ Wetlands/coast Small Curlew Rare Winter/ Wetlands Whimbrel Scarce Winter/ Wetlands/beaches Common Snipe Common Winter/ Wetlands Jack Snipe Rare Winter Wetlands Woodcock Rare Winter Woodlands/dunes Small

6 Ruff Scarce Winter/ Wetlands Overwinters in Pectoral Sandpiper Rare Passage Wetlands Grey Phalarope Rare Winter/ Wetlands/coast Small Red necked Phalarope Rare Passage Wetlands Small SKUAS Arctic Skua Scarce Winter At sea Small Great Skua Rare Winter At sea Small GULLS Black headed Gull Common All year Wetlands/ beaches Slender billed Gull Rare All year Wetlands/beaches Common Gull Rare Passage Wetlands/beaches Mediterranean Scarce All year Wetlands/beaches in Gull Yellow legged Gull Common All year Wetlands/beaches Audouin s Gull Scarce All year Wetlands/beaches in Lesser Black Scarce Winter Wetlands/beaches backed Gull Great Black Rare Vagrant Wetlands/beaches backed Gull Little Gull Rare Winter Wetlands/beaches Kittiwake Rare Winter Beaches Little Tern Scarce Summer/ Wetlands/beaches Sandwich Tern Common Winter/ Wetlands/beaches Gull billed Tern Scarce Passage Wetlands/beaches in Common Tern Scarce Passage Wetlands/beaches Caspian Tern Rare Passage Wetlands/beaches Small Lesser crested Rare Passage Wetlands/beaches Tern Black Tern Scarce Passage Wetlands/beaches in Whiskered Tern Common Winter/ Wetlands/beaches AUKS Razorbill Scarce Winter At Sea Small

7 SANDGROUSE Black bellied Sandgrouse Pin tailed Sandgrouse PIGEONS, DOVES AND CUCKOOS Scarce All year Inland plains/steppe in Scarce All year Inland plains/steppe in Rock Dove (& Feral Pigeon) Common All year Anywhere Stock Dove Rare Winter Woodlands/plains in Woodpigeon Common All year Anywhere Collared Dove Common All year Everywhere Turtle Dove Common Summer Woodland/open Cuckoo Common Summer Wetlands/woodland Great Spotted Cuckoo OWLS Rare Summer Around Magpies Eagle Owl Scarce All year Ravines Tawny Owl Common All year Woodlands Small Long eared Owl Scarce All year Pine Woods Short eared Owl Scarce Winter/ Wetlands/coast Small Little Owl Common All year Farmland/open Barn Owl Scarce All year Farmland/ruins Small Scops Owl Scarce Summer Pinewoods/village NIGHTJARS Red necked Scarce Summer Pinewoods Nighjars European Nightjar Scarce Summer Scrub SWIFTS Common Swift Common Summer Urban areas Pallid Swift Common Summer Coast etc in Alpine Swift Common Summer/ Mountains/anywhere HOOPOE, ROLLER, KINGFISHER, BEE EATER Hoopoe Common All year Anywhere Roller Common Summer Palms/localised in

8 Kingfisher Common Winter Wetlands/rivers in Bee eater Common Summer/ Open PARAKEETS AND WOODPECKERS Rose ringed Scarce All year Urban areas/localised in Parakeet Monk Parakeet Common All year Urban areas/localised in Wryneck Scarce Winter/ Open woodland in Iberian Green Woodpecker LARKS Scarce All year Woodland/open in Skylark Common Winter/ Open /Albacete Crested Lark Common All year Farmland/open Thekla Lark Scarce All year Rocky ground in Short toed Lark Scarce Passage Stony plains/localised Lesser Short toed Rare All year Saltmarsh in Lark Calandra Lark Rare All year Open /steppe Woodlark Scarce All year Hills SWALLOWS AND MARTINS Sand Martin Common Summer Wetlands/localised Crag Martin Common Winter Wetlands/beaches (localised) Barn Swallow Common Summer/ Anywhere Red rumped Common Passage Anywhere Swallow House Martin Common Summer/Winter Urban areas winters small Nos.) PIPITS AND WAGTAILS Tawny Pipit Rare Summer/ Plains/coast Water Pipit Scarce Winter/ Wetlands Small Meadow Pipit Common Winter Wetlands Red throated Pipit Rare Passage Anywhere Small Tree Pipit Rare Passage Anywhere Richard s Pipit Scarce Winter Grassland Small Rock Pipit Rare Winter Coast White Wagtail Common All year Anywhere

9 Yellow Wagtail Common Summer/ Meadows/wetlands Grey Wagtail Scarce Winter/ Water margins WRENS AND ACCENTORS Wren Scarce All year Dense undergrowth Dunnock Rare Winter Mountains Alpine Accentor Rare Winter Rocky summits Small THRUSHES Rufous Bush Robin Rare Summer Low pinewoods in Robin Common Winter Anywhere Nightingale Common Summer Dense scrub Bluethroat Common Winter Wetlands Redstart Scarce Passage Anywhere Black Redstart Common Winter Anywhere in Northern Scarce Passage Anywhere Wheatear Black eared Scarce Summer Hills Wheatear Black Wheatear Common All year Rocky places Whinchat Common Passage Anywhere Stonechat Common All year Anywhere Blue Rock Thrush Common All year Rocks/cliffs/ mountains Rufous tailed Rock Rare Passage Coast/cliffs Thrush Song Thrush Common Winter Anywhere Mistle Thrush Rare All year Woodland Redwing Rare Winter/ Orchards Small Fieldfare Rare Winter Anywhere Ring Ouzel Rare Passage Coast/Sierra Espuna Small Blackbird Common All year Woodland WARBLERS Garden Warbler Rare Passage Woodland edges in small nos. (?) Blackcap Common All year Gardens/woodlands Sardinian Warbler Common All year Anywhere

10 Orphean Warbler Rare Summer Mountain pines/localised in Whitethroat Scarce Passage Anywhere in small nos. (?) Spectacled Warbler Scarce Passage Low scrub in Subalpine Warbler Scarce Passage Mountains/anywhere (localised) Dartford Warbler Common All year Scrub Sedge Warbler Rare Passage Wetlands Moustached Scarce All year Reedbeds/localise Small Warbler Zitting Cisticola Common All year Wetlands Grasshopper Rare Passage Wetlands Warbler Savi s Warbler Common Summer Reedbeds/localised in Cetti s Warbler Common All year Wetlands Reed Warbler Common Summer/ Reedbeds Great Reed Common Summer/ Reedbeds Warbler Melodious Warbler Common Summer/ Streams/anywhere Icterine Warbler Common Passage Anywhere Small Olivaceous Warbler Common Passage River valleys Small nos./breeds Bonelli s Warbler Common Summer/ Coast/mountain scrub Wood Warbler Rare Summer/ Coast Small Willow Warbler Common Passage Anywhere Chiffchaff Common Winter/ Anywhere Iberian Chiffchaff Scarce Winter Anywhere Small FIRECREST AND FLYCATCHERS Firecrest Common All year Pines/localised Goldcrest Scarce All year Woodland/scrub Spotted Flycatcher Common Summer Woods/gardens Pied Flycatcher Scarce Passage Anywhere Small TITS AND TREECREEPERS Blue Tit Scarce All year Woodlands/localised Great Tit Common All year Woods/gardens Coal Tit Common All year Pinewoods

11 Crested tit Scarce All year Woodlands Long tailed Tit Scarce All year Woodlands Penduline Tit Scarce Winter Wetlands/localised in Bearded Reedling Scarce All year Reedbeds Small Short toed Treecreeper SHRIKES Scarce All year Woodlands Woodchat Shrike Common Summer Anywhere Southern Grey Shrike CROWS Common All year Open /scrub Jay Scarce All year Mountain woodlands Magpie Common All year Open Red billed Chough Common All year Mountains/cliffs/ localised Jackdaw Common All year Anywhere/localised Carrion Crow Rare All year Mainly Albacete area Raven Scarce All year Mountains Small STARLINGS Common Starling Common Winter Anywhere Spotless Starling Common All year Anywhere Golden Oriole Scarce Passage Poplar trees near water House Sparrow Common All year Urban areas Tree Sparrow Scarce All year Open /localised Rock Sparrow Common All year Stony hills/buildings/ localised FINCHES Small Small Chaffinch Common All year Fields/orchards Crossbill Scarce All year Pinewoods Brambling Rare Winter With Chaffinches Goldfinch Common All year Anywhere Greenfinch Common All year Anywhere Siskin Scarce Winter Pines/localised Serin Common All year Anywhere

12 Linnet Scarce All year Open Hawfinch Rare All year Orchards Small Trumpeter Finch Rare All year Arid gorges Small BUNTINGS Snow Bunting Rare Winter Grassy dunes/shingle beaches Reed Bunting Common Winter/ Reedbeds Cirl Bunting Scarce All year Wooded hills/localised Rock Bunting Scarce All year Mountains Yellowhammer Rare Winter Anywhere Pine Bunting Rare Winter Pines Corn Bunting Scarce All year Farmland Ortolan Bunting Scarce Passage Open areas Common Waxbill Rare All year Anywhere

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