ANDALUCIA, SPAIN APRIL 5 TH - 12 TH 2017 TRIP REPORT

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2 DAY 1 WEDNESDAY 5 TH APRIL 2017 MALAGA AIRPORT GUADALHORCE CASARES SIERRA CRESTELLINA GAUCIN WEATHER: wall to wall sunshine, light breeze, top temp 23C It was great to be back birding in Southern Spain for another exciting season. The weather was just beautiful and the birding as good as ever. Today I collected Mike from Malaga Airport he is staying with us -for a week, he arrived on time but his luggage was delayed some time. Once in the car we drove straight round to the local nature reserve at Guadalmar, called Desembocadura de Guadalhorce. We spent a superb two hours walking along the tracks and visiting the hides that overlook a number of lagoons, we recorded over 50 species and the first lagoon produced our top-two sightings of the day. First we located a number of White-headed Ducks swimming around with Common and Red-crested Pochard, Little Grebes, Moorhens and Eurasian Coots. But then in the reeds we found a RED-KNOBBED COOT which is a mega find for this reserve and a species I have never seen there before. Record shot of the Red-knobbed Coot The next lagoon had a number of Black-winged Stilts, Common Redshank and not much else, so we moved onto the third lagoon which is far more open and has more exposed muddy banks. A good number of waders were feeding there with several species present. We listed; Kentish Plover, Dunlin, Sanderling, Curlew Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Common Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Black-winged Stilt and Pied Avocet. On our return walk we watched a group of 12 European Bee-eaters, Zitting Cisticola, Cetti s Warbler, Pallid Swifts, Greenfinches and a few groups of Monk Parakeets. We visited two more hides but it was the Laguna Grande that produced the most new species, from a raised hide we watched; Greater Flamingo, Eurasian Spoonbill, Black-necked Grebes, Black-headed Gull, Great Cormorant, Little Ringed Plover, Grey Heron and lots more Stilts. During our walked back we bumped into a Eurasian Hoopoe, some Serins, Sardinian Warbler, a distant Booted Eagle, Common Kestrel and Red-rumped Swallows. After stopping to buy lunch we set off at 3pm for Gaucin, my home village in Andalucia. We stopped a couple of times near Casares, first we watched Griffon Vultures, Black Kites, Booted Eagle and dozens of Yellow-legged Gulls over a rubbish-tip near Estapona. In Casares we had closer views of Griffon Vultures and we watched a Blue Rock Thrush on the nearby rocks, whereelse?. At Sierra Crestellina we added Common (Northern) Raven, Common Stonechat and Woodchat Shrike to our list.

3 We eventually arrived at Gaucin around 5:30pm where we enjoyed a cold beer and a delicious home-cooked dinner, provided by my lovely wife Dawn. DAY 2 THURSDAY 6 TH APRIL 2017 RIO GENAL RIO GUADIARO SAN ENRIQUE WOODS PINAR DEL REY SAN ROQUE WEATHER: another day of sunshine but a brisk easterly wind kept the temp quite cool. Top temp 21C At the Rio Genal things were much quieter than I expected, the coast-road repair work was noisy and water extraction using large tractors towing water tanks was on-going near the bridge. Our walk lasted an hour during which we heard only 4 species singing; Common Nightingale, Blackcap, Serin and Cetti s Warbler. Actual sightings were minimal, Blue Tit, Serin, Long-tailed Tit, Grey Heron and above us we only saw Booted Eagle and Griffon Vulture, not a single Wagtail, no sight nor sound of Golden Oriole either or Hawfinch. By the time we reached the Guadiaro Valley leading to Secadero the wind had picked up, it was quite blustery at times. We saw several parties of European Bee-eater, also Crested Larks, Blackcap, Sardinian Warbler, Little-ringed Plover, Great Cormorant and not much else. The sky began to fill with raptors but only with Booted Eagles and Griffon Vultures. European Bee-eater Further down the track we had one inspirational sighting in the form of a GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO, this bird was perched on the roadside fence but unfortunately it saw us before we spotted it, the bird was off over the hill before we could say camera. Nevertheless it was a great sighting and my first of this species for this valley. We continued, encouraged by our find, but things didn t get much better! We added Corn Bunting, Common Stonechat, Greenfinches, Goldfinches and another stop at the river produced a Black Kite sighting and a Common Kingfisher. After a coffee stop in Secadero we drove to San Enrique Woods where we sat in the car and ate our picnic lunch next to the sewerage works, how nice! A quick scan of a ploughed field produced both House and Tree Sparrows, Spotless Starlings, Bee-eaters and Goldfinches. Walking in the windy woods we added Bonelli s Warbler, Great-spotted Woodpecker and lots of Serins. Next we drove to the umbrella pine-woods near San Roque, we first looked for Orchids along the main track, we found both Sombre and Sawfly Orchids. We also saw Small Copper, Spanish Festoon, Speckled Wood and Cleopatra Butterflies.

4 Back to birding, we spent an hour or so searching the pine trees and areas of cork oak for new species. Our efforts were rewarded with good sightings of all four target species: Firecrest, Crested Tit, Short-toed Treecreeper and Bonelli s Warbler. Other species seen were Eurasian Jay, Chaffinch, Blue Tit, Blackbird and Blackcap. From the elevated roadside just north of San Roque we viewed many White Storks on their nests, it is incubation time right now in the 70+ nests in this area. White Stork sitting on eggs We also stopped near a railway bridge to look at a Lesser Kestrel colony, my fears of last year were abated somewhat with the encouraging sight of new kestrel nesting boxes attached to the bridge walls. I feared last year that repair work on the bridge would discourage these delightful falcons from further breeding, we saw six individuals, one of which came down to a nesting hole with food, smashing! Our last stop was just outside of Jimena de la Frontera where we walked along a dirt track looking for Tawny Pipits. We found Stonechats, Serins, Goldfinches and our first Short-toed Eagle but no pipits. This concluded our birding, it was a little disappointing, the lack of raptor passage and of migrants in general is a concern, perhaps the east wind is having a greater effect than I thought it would! DAY 3 - FRIDAY 7 TH APRIL 2017 GAUCIN SWEET-CHESTNUT WOODS ESTACION CORTES LLANOS DE LIBAR CUEVA DE GATO WEATHER: Sunshine all day, very cold easterly wind, top temp 19C It was bitter cold in the sweet chestnut wood even though we were sheltered from the brisk wind. Surprisingly there was quite a lot of bird activity in the bare branches of these ancient deciduous trees. We quickly found Blue Tit, Crested Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker and Common Chaffinch. We had to walk a few hundred meters into the cork oak woods in order to find our main target bird, it took quite a while before we heard one. The swirling, windy conditions made it difficult to locate our first Iberian Chiffchaff of the trip but when we did it showed very well. We also tried to track down a singing Coal Tit but failed to find it in the tall pines nearby. On the return walk we found two Short-toed Treecreepers, another Great-spotted Woodpecker and a very obliging Firecrest. A nice sighting, albeit brief, was made of a Hobby, it dashed along above the trees and quickly out of sight. By the time we got down to the Rio Guadiaro at Estacion Cortes the sun was higher and we warmed up, the wind was greatly reduced in this sheltered valley. We spent an hour or so walking beside the river noting: Blackcap, Cetti s Warbler, Common Nightingale, Greenfinch, Cirl Bunting, Woodchat Shrike, Stonechat, Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Great Cormorant and White Wagtail.

5 Generally it was quiet, lots of House Martins, a few Red-rumped and Barn Swallows flew all around us and higher up we counted over 40 Griffon Vultures, two Short-toed Eagles and we heard distant Bee-eaters. After a coffee stop in Cortes de la Frontera we made it to Montejaque and the Llanos de Libar by lunchtime, we ate our picnic in the sunshine sitting on some rocks. Spanish Festoon, Cleopatra and Clouded Yellow Butterflies were noted during lunch. Iberian Chiffchaff taken by Mike Ream We walked up the track towards the Llanos de Libar scanning the mountain tops and steep rock faces looking for anything that moved. We found Rock Bunting, Blue Rock Thrush, Black Wheatear, Red-billed Chough, Crag Martins and dozens of Griffon Vultures. Lower down we were kept busy watching Sardinian Warbler, Stonechats, Eurasian Linnets, Goldfinches and more Black Wheatears. A male Ring Ouzel was a bonus find but unfortunately Mike didn t get onto it before it disappeared behind some bushes. Driving further up the valley we entered the wide open valley (Llanos) which had some rocky scree and some cultivated fields. We added Mistle Thrush, Rock Sparrow (Petronia) but we failed to find Black-eared Wheatear. During the return journey we stopped to watch a superb male Black Redstart and we continued our search for other wheatears. Cueva de Gato (Cat s Cave) near Benaojan is the best and most reliable place to find Alpine Swifts, we saw four as we emerged from the car in the car park. Our walk to the near-deserted beauty spot at the cave s entrance was punctuated with stops to watch the swifts and martins. At the blue-pool below the cave we watched Grey Wagtail, Blackcap and not much else. Mike pointed out two large raptors circling behind us, wow! They were Bonelli s Eagles, a great find, I d been searching for those beauties all day. We walked along the river hoping for sightings of Dipper without success, we did hear a distant Golden Oriole calling but we dipped on the Dipper. It was now 5:15pm so we decided to call it a day, our drive back was speedy along empty roads, we arrived back in Gaucin at 6pm. Dinner was taken at 7:30pm followed by our bird log, we had now recorded 100 species (including 3 heard not seen), not a bad tally but certainly lacking in migrant species. DAY 4 SATURDAY 8 TH APRIL 2017 ENCINAS BORRACHAS TRACK NEAR RONDA SIERRA DE LAS NIEVES NATURAL PARQUE RONDA WEATHER: sunshine all day, gusting, bitter cold wind for most of the day. Top temp 19C felt like 5C at times. We arrived at the Encinas Borrachas track not long after 8:30am, a cold gusting wind greeted us as we left the car. Not surprisingly very birds were on show, we saw distant Northern and Black-eared Wheatears, also Linnets and Goldfinches, a single Rock Bunting sat in a bush, but nothing else showed.

6 Our walk across the heathland produced nothing at all but as we found shelter from the wind over the brow of a hill a few things began to appear. We heard an Iberian Shrike singing, it flew off just as we located it, a distant Common Cuckoo called. Black-eared Wheatear The wind reduced somewhat with longer, calm gaps between the gusts, during these periods it was quite warm and birding became enjoyable once again. We tracked down an Orphean Warbler as it sang in the cork oaks, the same happened with Subalpine Warbler. Mike got onto two Ring Ouzels, I saw them in flight and agreed with their identification. Distant Black Wheatears sat on the mountain tops whilst several Griffon Vultures drifted over. Our return walk was much more rewarding, mainly due to the reduced wind gusts. We managed to find Spectacled Warblers, Dartford Warblers (one male without a tail) and a couple of Thekla Larks. Mike found a Woodchat Shrike as we neared the car. Our next port of call was a roadside restaurant where we enjoyed a nice coffee break, from there we drove into the Sierra de las Nieves natural parque. Again it was very quiet with very few migrant species to see. We found Cirl Bunting, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Subalpine Warbler and a Mistle Thrush. It was colder there and windy, we drove deeper into the reserve but never ventured out of the car very much. One stop produced Wren and Coal Tit but not much more. At 2pm we drove into the centre of Ronda and became tourists for a couple of hours. During our walk around the famous Ronda Bridge and gorge we logged Red-billed Chough, Blue Rock Thrush, Crag Martin, a few Serins and a thousand people of innumerable different nationalities. Our return journey to Gaucin included a second stop at the Encinas Borrachas track hoping for a better view of Iberian Shrike, but we never found one. A couple of Short-toed Eagles were noted on the way back to Gaucin. Today we logged only 10 new species, but I am sure that the weather played a big part in our misfortune. DAY 5 SUNDAY 9 TH APRIL 2017 MARCHENILLA TRACK PALMONES SALT MARSH LAGUNA TORREGUADIARO SAN ENRIQUE WOODS WEATHER: Broken sunshine, strong easterly wind, top temp. 19C The cold easterly wind continued today albeit a little weaker than yesterday, it still had a negative effect on our birding enjoyment and our results! We left Gaucin and drove down the Algeciras Road to San Pablo where we turned off towards San Martin, our first stop was some 4km along this road where a colony of European Bee-eaters has been established in pig-sty. What a

7 contrast, beauty and the beast springs to mind! We saw plenty of pigs and many Bee-eaters. Twenty eight colourful Bee-eaters sat along a wire fence in the morning sun another 80+ birds flew out of a nearby Eucalyptus trees. Noise colour, movement a lovely experience to start our birding day. Further along the road we turned off to visit the river Guadiaro, we hoped for a sighting of Western Olivaceous Warbler, we heard Cetti s Warbler, Common Nightingale, Blackcap and Greenfinches but I don t think the Olivaceous Warblers are back on their breeding grounds just yet. Along the Marchenilla Track we saw very little migration movement except for groups of Bee-eaters. The wind kept a lot of the smaller birds down in the scrub and bushes. We saw lots of Corn Buntings, Greenfinches, Sardinian Warblers, Goldfinches, Serins, Linnets, House Sparrows and Griffon Vultures. I watched a Melodious Warbler when I returned to fetch the car whilst Mike found an Egyptian Vulture during the same time period. A couple of Tawny Pipits, several Crested Larks, Stonechats, a Black-eared Wheatear, Woodchat Shrike, Common Buzzard, Common Kestrel and a White Stork made up the rest of our sightings. We finally caught up with this Wryneck At Palmones Salt Marsh we were again disappointed, I have never seen so few species there! Singles of Grey Plover, Greenshank and Kentish Plover was the grand total of waders, a Sandwich Tern, 3 Eurasian Spoonbills, 4 Grey Herons and a dozen or so of Yellow Wagtails (Iberiae) was the sum total of our findings. The Laguna at Torreguadiaro was equally as bad, 6 Common Moorhens and 2 Little Grebes was a poor tally, so we went round to the woods at San Enrique where we ate our lunch. A short walk produced our best bird of the day when we tracked down a Wryneck. This bird eventually showed very well and apart from Blue Tit, Serin and Blackcap we saw very little else. From the track leading to the woods we watched Bee-eaters, Spotless Starlings and a Booted Eagle drifted over us. From there we drove through San Martin heading towards San Pablo making one stop to watch a Little Owl. After a short second visit to the Marchenilla Track to try to relocate the Melodious Warbler, without success, we drove back towards Gaucin via a series of dusty dirt tracks. We had hoped for Turtle Dove sightings or even Golden Oriole, perhaps a Common Cuckoo, but alas none of the above appeared. We finished early, a short day, however the next two days are going to be much longer so a rest now will help! DAY 6 MONDAY 10 TH APRIL 2017 LAGUNA MEDINA LAGUNA JUNCOSA - SANLUCAR POOLS BONANZA SALT PANS LAGUNA TARELO TREBUJENA MARSHES CHIPIONA BEACH-FRONT - CASARES WEATHER: sunshine all day, windy at first. Top temp 28C.

8 A full-on day today we were out from 7:15am until 10:15pm and we travelled quite a distance! We set off after an early breakfast and headed for the coast along the Gaucin-Algerciras Road, noting plenty of White Storks around Castellar and San Roque. It got light as we turned inland at Los Barrios and headed for Jerez. Further sightings along this road included Griffon Vultures, Common Buzzard, Cattle Egret and lots of Jackdaws. At Laguna Medina, near Jerez, it was quite windy so our sightings of small passerines was limited. We could hear plenty of Common Nightingales, Cetti s Warblers, Blackcaps and Sardinian Warblers but only got brief views of them. Gold and Greenfinches were everywhere and along with Crested Lark and Zitting Cisticola were the most common sightings. From the only hide we scanned this huge laguna which held precious little bird-life, the water level was quite high but birds were scarce. Two Common Shelduck, three Black-necked Grebes and two Great-crested Grebes were out on the main body of water. Common Coot, Common Moorhen and a few Mallards fed around the edges, in the far corner a flock of Northern Shoveler fed. A single Glossy Ibis made a lovely fly-pass its glossy sheen of iridescent greens and blues looked lovely in the morning light. Further walking along the main track produced Common Cuckoo (heard), Reed Warbler (heard) and Marsh Harrier, none of the expected migrant flycatchers, redstarts or sylvia warblers were present, we left a bit disappointed. This laguna used to be covered in birds but since Common Carp were put in there bird numbers have plummeted, the greedy carp have eaten everything! After a coffee stop we visited a small seasonal pool near Sanlucar where we watched both Common and Red-crested Pochard but not much more. A distant Collared Pratincole sat in a ploughed field, a beautiful Montagu s Harrier quartered another field whilst Little and Cattle Egrets fed around the pool edges. Lots of Common Swifts joined Sand Martins, Barn Swallows, and House Martins in the sky above the pool. European Chameleon The much smaller pools around Sanlucar held too much water they seemed to be bursting their banks, this had a negative effect on the number of waders present and the lack of Purple Swamphen sightings. Lots of White-headed Ducks joined the two Pochard species with many Coots and Moorhens, Little Grebes and Little Egrets. I saw a Little Bittern in flight but Mike missed it and we both watched Common Waxbills in the reeds. At Bonanza salt pans we spent a good two hours watching a good number of species, the wind had dropped here it was very warm with just a breeze, the light and heat-haze was a bit intense. We added many new species to our list including: Osprey, Caspian, Little and Gull-billed Terns, Slender-billed Gulls, lots of waders and plenty of Yellow Wagtails. A flock of some 50+ Collared Pratincoles hawked for insects high above the pans and Black Kites appeared constantly and a single Whinchat sat on a fenceline.

9 Laguna Tarelo at the back of the salt pans held a lot of birds, no new ducks for us but a herony on the island was a busy place. We watched Night Herons, Squacco Herons, Eurasian Spoonbills, Little and Cattle Egrets all vying for real estate space! We found a couple of Mediterranean Chameleons in the tamarisk bushes there. We passed through Algaida Pine Woods and onto the Marshes at Trebujena, it was there that we found a ROLLER sitting on a powerline, a Common Cuckoo did likewise. A few Northern Wheatears and a flock of some twenty Eurasian Spoonbills joined White Storks and Black Kites up on the thermals. Eurasian Spoonbills From Trebujena we drove to Chipiona some 30 kilometers away, Chipiona is a lovely seaside town and has hosted a colony of the rare LITTLE SWIFT for some years now, we arrived at 4:30pm. It was well worth the effort as we had great views of about 20 Little Swifts as they visited their nests in an active warehouse building near the marina. We also noted our first Ruddy Turnstones of the trip. Our day wasn t over yet! We drove back to Algeciras and along the coast to Manilva where had dinner, Marlow s Fish and Chip restaurant serve the best F and C s in the whole of Spain! We left there at 8pm and drove to Casares to visit my good friends Penny and John. They have regular visits and sightings of Eurasian Eagle Owl on their plot near the town of Casares. We waited until dusk, two Owls called but alas they failed to show, so we left slightly disappointed. Two very tired birders returned to Gaucin at 10:15pm, good night! DAY 7 TUESDAY 11 TH APRIL 2017 TARIFA LOS LANCES BEACH LA JANDA VEJER - BARBATE MARSHES WEATHER: cloudy to start then unbroken sunshine, moderate to strong easterly wind, top temp 19C Our final day had arrived and we hoped that the strong wind which had hampered our birding throughout the week had abated! As we left Gaucin at 8am we noticed it was calm, no wind so far, but by the time we had reached the coast at Algeciras it was very windy once again. At Tarifa it was windy but bearable, we walked to the hide on Los Lances beach from the main N340/A7. En-route we had notched up a list of several species; White Stork, Griffon Vulture, Common Kestrel, Crested Lark and lots of Barn Swallows. Corn Buntings sang from fence-posts, a Skylark sat on the grass and a Northern Wheatear dashed in front of us as we walked to the beach. From the hide we found a good number of Sanderling, Ringed Plover, Dunlin and Grey Plover, there were fewer numbers of Common Redshank and Kentish Plover. A group of distant Sandwich Terns sat on the beach with a single Mediterranean Gull, even further away were groups of both Yellow-legged and Black-headed Gulls. A few Northern Gannets battled against the wind out at sea.

10 During our return walk we added Greater Short-toed Lark to our trip list and saw very little else. Next stop was La Janda, I have never recorded so few species in any of my previous visits! I think that the current ploughed rice fields has a lot to do with bird numbers, it was like a barren, dry desert. We did see Woodchat Shrike, a very obliging Calandra Lark, lots of Linnets, Goldfinches, House Sparrows and Corn Buntings. Calandra Lark Dozens of Cattle Egrets followed tractors as they farrowed the fields, but not a single stork, heron, ibis, spoonbill or raptor was seen as we drove along the central track. Turning onto the Benalup track we crawled passed the egret nesting-colony where hundreds of Cattle Egrets tried to stay perched in the strong winds. We ate lunch near the smelly farm where Red-legged Partridges, Common Pheasant, Eurasian Jackdaw, Marsh Harrier, a dozen Black Kites and a swirling kettle of some 200 White Storks was seen. A single Egyptian Vulture, Shorttoed Eagle, Booted Eagle and more Black Kites were also seen from near the farm. As we drove off La Janda we stopped to watch a female Montagu s Harrier and another Marsh Harrier. Cattle Egret looking fabulous in summer plumage At Montonmedia Golf Course we searched the mixed woodland for migrant warblers, but all we got was 2 Eurasian Hoopoes and a single Pied Flycatcher. Vejer provided our sighting of Bald Ibis, we viewed one of the nesting colonies where 11 pairs were sitting on eggs alongside dozens of Eurasian Jackdaws.

11 Barbate Marshes provided the venue for our best birding of the day. We watched over 70 Collared Pratincoles, a pair of Stone Curlews and our only sighting of Audouin s Gull. Along the track around the marsh we saw a dozen Northern Wheatears, 4 Tawny Pipits, Yellow Wagtails, Corn Buntings and several Crested Larks. Other birds seen out on the marsh include: Great Egret, Eurasian Spoonbill, Dunlin, Common Greenshank, Common Redshank, Grey Plover, Ringed Plover, Little Stint and Black-winged Stilt. Collared Pratincoles We made our way back to Gaucin stopping at the Mirador de Estrecho where we looked over to Morocco through hazy cloud. Several raptors were working their way eastward against the wind, we saw Black Kites, Booted Eagles, a single Sparrowhawk and lots of Griffon Vultures. Well that ended our 7-day tour, we headed back to Gaucin arriving around 5pm. Our trip count had reached 153 with another 5 species heard but not seen. It had been a tough week, we had endured 4 days of very windy conditions and I m sure that bird migration had been disrupted because of this. Tomorrow I take Mike back to Malaga Airport and collect Jimmy who is staying for a 4-day birding tour. DAY 8 WEDNESDAY 12 TH APRIL 2017 GAUCIN TO MALAGA With no time for birding today we set off for Malaga quite early as Mike had to be at the airport by 9:30am which we achieved with 10 minutes to spare. My new birding-pal for the next few days, Jimmy, was due to arrive shortly afterwards. SPECIES RECORDED BETWEEN 5 TH 11 TH APRIL 2017 SPECIES Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna X 2 Mallard Anas platyrynchos X X X 3 Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata X 4 Gadwall Anas strepera X 5 Common Pochard Aythya ferina X X 6 Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina X X 7 White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala X X 8 Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa X X X

12 9 Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis X X 10 Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis X X 11 Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus X 12 Northern Gannet Morus bassanus X 13 Great Cormorant Phalacocroax carbo X X X X 14 Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus X 15 Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax X 16 Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis X X X 17 Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides X 18 Little Egret Egretta garzetta X X 19 Great Egret Casmerofius alba X X 20 Grey Heron Ardea cinerea X X X X 21 White Stork Ciconia ciconia X X X 22 Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus X X 23 Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita X 24 Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia X X X 25 Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber X X 26 Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus X X X X X X X 27 Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus X X 28 Osprey Pandion haliaetus X 29 Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus X X X X X 30 Booted Eagle Aquila pennata X X X X X 31 Bonelli s Eagle Aquila fasciata X 32 Black Kite Milvus migrans X X X X 33 Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus X X 34 Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus X X 35 Common Buzzard Buteo buteo X X 36 Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus X 37 Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus X X X X X X 38 Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni X X 39 Eurasian Hobby Falco subuteo X 40 Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus X X X X 41 Eurasian Coot Fulica atra X X X 42 Red-knobbed Coot Fulica cristata X 43 Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta X X 44 Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus X X X 45 Stone Curlew Burhinus oedicnemus X 46 Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola X X 47 Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius X X X X X 48 Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula X X 49 Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus X X X 50 Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola X X 51 Sanderling Calidris alba X X X 52 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres X 53 Dunlin Calidris alpina X X X 54 Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea X X 55 Little Stint Calidris minuta X 56 Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus X X X 57 Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos X X 58 Common Redshank Tringa totanus X X X 59 Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus X X 60 Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia X X X 61 Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus X X X 62 Slender-billed Gull Larus genei X

13 63 Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus X 64 Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis X X X X 65 Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii X 66 Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus X 67 Little Tern Sterna albifrons X 68 Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis X X 69 Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica X 70 Caspian Tern Sterna caspia X 71 Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus X 72 Feral Pigeon Columba livia X X X X X X X 73 Common Wood-Pigeon Columba palumbus X X X X 74 Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto X X X X X X X 75 European Turtle Dove Streptopeliia turtur H 76 Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus H H X 77 Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius X 78 Eagle Owl Bubo bubo H 79 Little Owl Athene noctua X 80 Common Swift Apus apus X X 81 Pallid Swift Apus pallidus X X 82 Alpine Swift Apus melba X 83 Little Swift Apus affinus X 84 Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops X X 85 Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis X 86 European Bee-eater Merops apiaster X X H X X X H 87 European Roller Coracias garrulus X 88 Green Woodpecker Picus viridusis X X 89 Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopus major X X X 90 Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla X 91 Skylark Alauda arvensis X 92 Crested Lark Galerida cristata X X X X X 93 Thekla Lark Galerida theklae X 94 Wood Lark Lullula arborea H 95 Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella rachydactyla X 96 Calandra Lark Melanocoryphra calandra X 97 Sand Martin Riparia riparia X 98 Eurasian Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris X X 99 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica X X X X X X X 100 Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica X X X X X X 101 House Martin Delichon urbicum X X X X X X X 102 Tawny Pipit Anthus campestris X X 103 White Wagtail Motacilla alba X X X 104 Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava iberiae X X X 105 Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea X X 106 Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos H X H H H X H 107 Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros X 108 Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe X X X 109 Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica X 110 Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura X X 111 Whinchat Saxicola rubetra X 112 European Stonechat Saxicola torquata X X X X X X X 113 Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus X X 114 Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula X X X X X X X 115 Blue Rock Thrush Monticola salitarius X X X 116 Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla X X H X H

14 117 Common Whitethroat Sylvia communis X X 118 West Orphean Warbler Sylvia hortensis H X 119 Sardinian Warbler Sylvia melanocephala X X X X X X 120 Spectacled Warbler Sylvia conspicillata X 121 Subalpine Warbler Sylvia cantillans X 122 Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata X 123 Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis X X X X X 124 Savi s Wrabler Locustella luscinioides 125 Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti X H H H X H 126 Eurasian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus H 127 Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta X 128 Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus X 129 Western Bonelli s Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli X X 130 Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus X 131 Firecrest Regulus ignicapilla X X 132 Wren Troglodytes troglodytes H X 133 Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca X 134 Great Tit Parus major X X X 135 Coal Tit Parus ater H X 136 Eurasian Blue Tit Parus caeruleus X X X X 137 Crested Tit Laphophanes cristatus X X X 138 Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus X 139 Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea X 140 Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla X X X 141 Iberian Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis X 142 Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator X X X X X X X 143 Eurasian Magpie Pica pica X 144 Eurasian Jay Garrulus grandarius X X X X 145 Eurasian Jackdaw Corvus monedula X X 146 Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax X X 147 Common Raven Corvus corax X X X 148 Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor X X X X X X X 149 Golden Oriole Oriolis oriolis H 150 House Sparrow Passer domesticus X X X X X X X 151 Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis X 152 Tree Sparrow Passer montanus X 153 Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia X 154 Common Chaffinch Fringella coelebs X X X X 155 Eurasian Linnet Carduelis cannabina X X X X 156 European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis X X X X X X X 157 European Greenfinch Carduelis chloris X X X X X X X 158 European Serin Serinus serinus X X X X X X 159 Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus X X 160 Corn Bunting Miliaria calandra X X X 161 Rock Bunting Emberiza cia X X 162 Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus X 163 Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild X BUTTERFLIES 1 Scarce Swallowtail X 2 Large White X X 3 Bath White X 4 Clouded Yellow X 5 Cleopatra X X X X

15 6 Small Copper X X 7 Monarch X X 8 Large Tortoiseshell X 9 Red Admiral X 10 Painted Lady X X 11 Small Heath X X 12 Speckled Wood X X 13 Spanish Festoon X X 14 Moroccan Orange-tip X