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Message: <blockquote data-quote="occasional" data-source="post: 3023509" data-attributes="member: 48758">At the moment the ricefields on La Janda are full of water which makes for a rather industrialised landscape, but at least attracts a fair variety of birds.This is a list of the principal species noted on 3 July.Breeding cattle egrets and glossy ibis plus little egrets, grey herons, c10 spoonbills, white storks, mallard, 1 black kite, 2 Short-toed eagles, griffon vultures, 1 marsh harrier, purple gallinule, moorhen, hundreds of black-winged stilts, 1 avocet, many collared pratincoles, c 6 redshanks, c 4 green sandpiper, black-headed gulls, yellow-legged gulls, c10 gull-billed terns, swifts, 1 kingfisher, bee-eaters, 1 hoopoe, crested larks, red- rumped swallows, reed warblers, woodchat shrike, jackdaws.</blockquote>