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Alvaro's Spanish Bird List 2018 (1 Viewer)

Alvaro Peral

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Welcome to my birdlist for 2018. Birds seen in Spain, mostly in Andalucía and the south.

South East Spain: Cabo de Gata Natural Park and wetlands in Granada:

1 Common Shelduck - Tadorna tadorna
2 Northern Shoveler - Spatula clypeata
3 Eurasian Wigeon - Mareca penelope
4 Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos
5 Eurasian/Green-winged Teal - Anas crecca
6 Red-crested Pochard - Netta rufina
7 Common Pochard - Aythya ferina
8 Ferruginous Duck - Aythya nyroca
9 Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula
10 White-headed Duck - Oxyura leucocephala
11 Red-legged Partridge - Alectoris rufa
12 Little Grebe - Tachybaptus ruficollis
13 Black-necked Grebe - Podiceps nigricollis
14 Greater Flamingo - Phoenicopterus roseus
15 Black Stork - Ciconia nigra
16 White Stork - Ciconia ciconia
17 Great Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo
18 Grey Heron - Ardea cinerea
19 Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
20 Eurasian Spoonbill - Platalea leucorodia
21 Western Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus
22 Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus
23 Red-knobbed Coot - Fulica cristata
24 Eurasian Coot - Fulica atra
25 Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus
26 Pied Avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta
27 Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola
28 European Golden Plover - Pluvialis apricaria
29 Whimbrel - Numenius phaeopus
30 Bar-tailed Godwit - Limosa lapponica
31 Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa
32 Dunlin - Calidris alpina
33 Little Stint - Calidris minuta
34 Jack Snipe - Lymnocryptes minimus
35 Common Redshank - Tringa totanus
36 Black-headed Gull - Chroicocephalus ridibundus
37 Yellow-legged Gull - Larus michahellis
38 Lesser Black-backed Gull - Larus fuscus
39 Sandwich Tern - Thalasseus sandvicensis
40 Collared Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
41 Common Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus
42 Southern Grey Shrike - Lanius meridionalis
43 Eurasian Magpie - Pica pica
44 Lesser Short-toed Lark - Alaudala rufescens
45 Thekla's Lark - Galerida theklae
46 Crested Lark - Galerida cristata
47 Eurasian Crag Martin - Ptyonoprogne rupestris
48 Cetti's Warbler - Cettia cetti
49 Common Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita
50 Zitting Cisticola - Cisticola juncidis
51 Sardinian Warbler - Sylvia melanocephala
52 Dartford Warbler - Sylvia undata
53 European Robin - Erithacus rubecula
54 Black Redstart - Phoenicurus ochruros
55 European Stonechat - Saxicola rubicola
56 Black Wheatear - Oenanthe leucura
57 Eurasian Blackbird - Turdus merula
58 European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris
59 Spotless Starling - Sturnus unicolor
60 Pied Wagtail/White Wagtail - Motacilla alba
61 Meadow Pipit - Anthus pratensis
62 Corn Bunting - Emberiza calandra
63 European Greenfinch - Chloris chloris
64 European Goldfinch - Carduelis carduelis
65 European Serin - Serinus serinus
66 House Sparrow - Passer domesticus
 
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Spanish birdlist speeding up!

Number of species is speeding up after some days out in central Andalusia. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as me targeting the 250 sp for 2018:

1 Bar-tailed Godwit
2 Flamingo
3 Red-legged Partridge
4 Robin
5 Sardinian Warbler
6 Black-tailed Godwit
7 Black-winged Stilt
8 Crested Lark
9 Dunlin
10 Grey Plover
11 Sandwich Tern
12 Shelduck
13 Spoonbill
14 Greenfinch
15 Black-necked Grebe
16 Avocet
17 Black Redstart
18 Black Wheatear
19 Black-headed Gull
20 Cetti's Warbler
21 Chiffchaff
22 Coot
23 Cormorant
24 Corn Bunting
25 Crag Martin
26 Dartford Warbler
27 Goldfinch
28 Kestrel
29 Lesser Short-toed Lark
30 Little Egret
31 Mallard
32 Marsh Harrier
33 Meadow Pipit
34 Redshank
35 Serin
36 Shoveler
37 Spotless Starling
38 Starling
39 Teal
40 Thekla Lark
41 White/Pied Wagtail
42 Yellow-legged Gull
43 Collared Dove
44 House Sparrow
45 Magpie
46 Southern Grey Shrike
47 Stonechat
48 Whimbrel
49 Black Stork
50 Ferruginous Duck
51 Grey Heron
52 Jack Snipe
53 Lesser Black-backed Gull
54 Little Grebe
55 Red-knobbed Coot
56 White Stork
57 Wigeon
58 Blackbird
59 Golden Plover
60 Little Stint
61 Moorhen
62 Pochard
63 Red-crested Pochard
64 Tufted Duck
65 White-headed Duck
66 Zitting Cisticola
67 Blue Tit
68 Buzzard
69 Chaffinch
70 Cirl Bunting
71 Fieldfare
72 Linnet
73 Nuthatch
74 Tawny Owl
75 Blue Rock-thrush
76 Green Woodpecker
77 Griffon Vulture
78 Great Crested Grebe
79 Feral Dove
80 Gannet
81 Turnstone
82 Crane
83 Azure-winged Magpie
84 Grey Wagtail
85 Hoopoe
86 Spanish Imperial Eagle
87 Woodpigeon
88 Long-eared Owl
89 Crested Tit
90 Jay
91 Mistle Thrush
92 Raven
93 Chough
94 Calandra Lark
95 Kingfisher
96 Cattle Egret
97 Common Sandpiper
98 Crossbill
99 Jackdaw
100 Song Thrush
101 Blackcap
102 Great Spotted Woodpecker
103 Great Tit
104 Rock Bunting
105 Rock Sparrow
 
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Some of the last birds on the list

Here's some of the Spanish birds that I find more relevant to users of this forum. Enjoy:
 

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