HELP please :-) - Menorca July (1 Viewer)

Hi everyone, I will be visiting Menorca in the last week of July this year and was wondering if any of you have been there and done some birding whilst there? If so any help with respect to locations and species lists would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance

Hi there, its getting on for 20 years since I was there with my parents, but I visited Algendar gorge which held breeding Egyptian vulture, Booted eagle, as well as Eleanora's falcon, Crag martin, Audouin's gull etc. Son Bou and S'Albufera were also great areas but probably worth getting information from somebody who has been there in the last decade at least... There is an old (but good book) by Graham Hearl which contains some good site information. Hope this is of some assistance to you, early mornings will probably offer your best chances of activity in July, as it will be hot and post-breeding season. Enjoy!

I've not been there since 2005, but as Daniel says, the Algendar Gorge is well worth a look for vultures and other species, taking the footpath from the tuning circle at Cala Galdana. The reedbeds at the bottom end of the gorge are also worth spending some time at. Over the years I went there I had zitting cisticola, moustached warbler, water rail and various other species. Late afternoon/early evening at Cala Galdana usually had a small flock of Alpine swifts coming squealing through, while pallid swift were there constantly.

The last time I was at Son Bou I discovered that purple gallinule had begun breeding there, presumably having arrived from the reintroduction on Mallorca.

The dunes behind the beach at Cala Tirant were good for green sanpiper and tawny pipit, while the track leading north towards the Cala had a bee-eater colony, turtle doves, red kite, booted eagle, etc.

The rocky flatlands on the road to Cap de Cavalleria in the evening are excellent for stone curlew.

thank you

Hug Thanks for the replies , a great help , i hope that i will see the species you both have mentioned as there will be a fair few lifers there for me , Thanks again

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Huge thanks even lol

Hi any ideas where i can buy this book as have tried the usual and no longer in print aparently

PM me with your email address and I'll attempt to send you a PDF with the relevant pages if you like?

Look up Javier Mendez who runs Walking Birds Menorca. He'll take you out for a day's birding. I went with him last time we were there & end up with at least a dozen lifers

I think July might be a bit quiet but my late Sept-Oct trip report is below.


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