Birdwatching Holidays in Spain, Morocco & more BOLETAS Birdwatching centre 22192 Loporzano (Huesca) Spain tel/fax 00 34 974 262027 or 01162 889318 e.mail: josele@boletas.org // www.boletas.org Esther Diago Millán - NIF 38493051K BIRD HIGHLIGHTS TOUR LONG WEEK END DATES January 25th to 28th Party: James & Pamela Gibson Steven & Ann Ryles Tour Leader : Josele J.. Saiz Total Number of Species : 79 1 2 3 4 Cloudy but cold Zaragoza Villanueva Las Casas Weather & Sites: Clear in the morning but raining before lunch Riglos, Sotonera Lake Snowing all morning then sunny all afternoon Candanchu, Villanua, Santa Cruz, La Peña, Sotonera Sunny & windy Stork City, Ontiñena Plains, Monegros
Money for conservation has gone to : Seo-Birdlife Group h/heard */ Seeing ad/ Adult juv/ Juvenile f/ Female m/male ++ / Common (?) possible SPECIES Scientific Name 1 1 Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis 2 Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea 3 Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus 4 Mediterranean or Yelkouan Puffinus yelkouan 5 Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis 6 Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus 7 Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo x x 8 Purple Heron Ardea purpurea 9 Little Egret Egretta garzetta x 10 Great Egret Egretta alba x x x 11 Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis x 12 Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides 13 Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax 14 Great Bittern Botaurus stellaris 15 Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus 16 Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus 17 Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia 18 White Stork Ciconia ciconia x x x 19 Black Stork Ciconia nigra 20 Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber 21 Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna 22 Gadwall Anas strepera x 23 Garganey Anas querquedula 24 Northern Pintail Anas acuta x x 25 Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina 26 Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca 27 White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala 28 Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus 29 Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus 2 3 30 Cinereous, Black or Monk Aegypius monachus 31 Eurasian Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus x x x 32 Osprey Pandion haliaetus 33 European Honey-Buzzard Pernis apivorus 34 Red Kite Milvus milvus xx xx xx xx 35 Black Kite Milvus migrans migrans; 36 Black-winged or shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus 37 Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciatus 38 Booted Eagle Aquila pennatus 39 Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos 40 Spanish Imperial Eagle Aquila adalberti 41 Short-toed Snake-Eagle Circaetus gallicus 42 Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis 43 Common Buzzard Buteo buteo x x x x 44 Western or Eurasian Marsh Circus aeruginosus x x x x 45 Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus x 46 Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus 47 Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonora 48 Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo 49 Merlin Falco columbarius X x 50 Lesser Kestrel Falco naummani 51 Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus mutus 52 Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus 53 Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa x x x 54 Common Crane Grus grus 55 Red-knobbed or Crested Coot Fulica cristata 56 Purple Swamphen Porphyrula porphyrula 57 Corncrake Crex crex 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
58 Water Rail Rallus aquaticus 59 Spotted Crake Porzana porzana 60 Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla 61 Little Crake Porzana parva 62 Great Bustard Otis tarda 2 63 Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax 64 Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus 65 Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius 66 Kentish or Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus 67 Eurasian Dotterel Eudromias morinellus 68 Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii 69 Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus 70 Eurasian Thick-knee or Stone Burhinus oedicnemus 71 Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola 72 Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus 73 Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii 74 Slender-billed Gull Larus genei 75 Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica 76 Little Tern Sterna albifrons 77 Caspian Tern Sterna caspia 78 Black Tern Chlidonias niger 79 Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus 80 Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata H H 81 Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis 5 82 European Turtle-Dove Streptopelia turtur 83 Monk Parakeet (escaped) Myiopsitta monachus 84 Ring-necked Parakeet (escaped) Psittacula krameri 85 Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius 86 Barn Owl Tyto alba 87 Eurasian Eagle-Owl Bubo bubo 1 88 Long-eared Owl Asio otus 89 Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus 90 Common or Eurasian Scops-Owl Otus scops 91 Little Owl Athene noctua 92 Boreal or Tengmalm's Owl Aegolius funereus 93 Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis 94 Pallid Swift Apus pallidus 95 White-rumped Swift Apus caffer 96 Alpine Swift Apus melba 97 European Bee-eater Merops apiaster 98 European Roller Coracias garrulus 99 Eurasian or Common Hoopoe Upupa epops 100 Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla 101 Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius 102 Middle Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos medius 103 White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos 104 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos minor 105 Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra xx xx 106 Dupont s Lark Chersophilus duponti 107 Thekla Lark Galerida theklae x 108 Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla 109 Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens x 110 Eurasian Crag-Martin Hirundo rupestris x 111 Red-rumped Swallow Hirundo daurica 112 Tawny Pipit Anthus campestris 113 Rock Pipit Anthus petrosus 114 Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta 115 Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio 116 Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator senator; 117 Southern Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis x x 118 Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor 119 Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris 15 120 Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides
121 Great Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus 122 Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon 123 Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis 124 Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti 125 Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta 126 Olivaceous Warbler Hippolais pallida 127 Orphean Warbler Sylvia hortensis 128 Sardinian Warbler Sylvia melanocephala H x 129 Subalpine Warbler Sylvia cantillans 130 Spectacled Warbler Sylvia conspicillata 131 Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata 132 Marmora's Warbler Sylvia sarda 133 Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli 134 Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus ibericus; 135 Firecrest Regulus ignicapillus 136 Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin Cercotrichas galactotes 137 Rock-Thrush Monticola saxatilis 138 Blue Rock-Thrush Monticola solitarius 1 1 139 Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica 140 Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura 1 141 Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros x x x x 142 Bluethroat Luscinia svecica 143 Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos 144 Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus 145 Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus 146 Penduline-Tit Remiz pendulinus 147 Crested Tit Parus cristatus 148 Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria 1 1 149 Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla 150 Dipper Cinclus cinclus 151 Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyana 152 Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax x x x x 153 Alpine Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus 25 154 Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis 155 Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor x x x x 156 Golden-Oriole Oriolus oriolus 157 Common Waxbill (introduced) Estrilda astrild 158 Blue Chaffinch Fringilla teydea 159 European Serin Serinus serinus x 160 Citril Finch Serinus citrinella 161 Common Crossbill Loxia curvirostra 162 Trumpeter Finch Buchanetes (=Rhodopechys) 163 Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes 164 Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia 165 Snowfinch Montifringilla nivalis 166 Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus x x 167 Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana 168 Rock Bunting Emberiza cia x Little Gull Kittiwake x x