Scridifer's Bulgarian List 2025 (3 Viewers)

[Scridifer]

Usual notation; Lifers in bold, location Byala unless otherwise stated.

01/01/2025

1) House Sparrow
2) Blackbird
3) Hooded Crow
4) Starling
5) Chaffinch
6) Chiffchaff
7) Jay
8) Great Tit
9) Pheasant
10) Black-necked Grebe
11) Coot
12) Yellow-legged Gull
13) Mute Swan
14) Goldfinch
15) Robin
16) Common Buzzard

 

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02/01/2025

17) Linnet
18) Black Redstart
19) Greenfinch
20) Corn Bunting
21) Wren
22) Crested Lark
23) Hen Harrier
24) Song Thrush
25) Blue Tit
26) Short-toed Treecreeper
27) Great Spotted Woodpecker
28) Wood Pigeon
29) Reed Bunting
30) Sparrowhawk

03/01/2025 Rudnik Lake

31) Raven
32) Marsh Harrier
33) Common Kestrel
34) Collared Dove

 

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04/01/2025

35) Black-throated Diver
36) Great Cormorant
37) Great Crested Grebe
38) Peregrine Falcon
39) White Wagtail
40) Shag
41) Red-breasted Merganser

05/01/2025

42) Green Woodpecker
43) Middle Spotted Woodpecker
44) Long-tailed Tit
45) Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
46) Mallard
47) Goldcrest
48) Hawfinch
49) Fieldfare
50) Syrian Woodpecker

06/01/2025 Obzor

51) Grey Heron

 

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07/01/2025

52) Skylark

 

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08/01/2025

53) Barn Owl

 

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10/01/2025

54) Magpie!

 

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13/01/2025

55) Brambling
56) Siskin

 

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13/01/2025 Goritsa forest

57) Nuthatch

13/01/2025 Rudnik Lake

58) Mistle Thrush

 

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15/01/2025

59) Tufted Duck

 

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16/01/2025

60) Woodlark

 

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17/01/2025 Nos Emine

61) Meadow Pipit

20/01/2025

62) Little Owl

20/01/2025 Yatata NR, Varna

63) Pintail
64) Gadwall
65) Shoveller
66) Common Pochard
67) Pygmy Cormorant
68) Common Shelduck
69) Teal
70) Great Egret
71) Little Grebe
72) Jackdaw
73) Black-headed Gull

20/01/2025 Povelianovo marshlands

74) Ruddy Shelduck
75) Snipe
76) Little Egret

 

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21/01/2025

77) Redwing

 

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23/01/2025 Rudnik lake

78) Cetti's Warbler

 

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24/01/2025

79) Firecrest

 

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29/01/25 Yundum Airport, The Gambia

80) Pied Crow
81) Little Swift
82) Yellow-billed Black Kite
83) Cattle Egret
84) Hooded Vulture
85) Black Kite

29/01/25 Lemoncreek Hotel, Serrekunda

86) Western Red-billed Hornbill
87) Western Grey Plantain-eater

 

[Owene]

Great stuff Chris, so Gambia into Morocco? if so thats going to be some amazing birding. I really want to get to Western Africa even if a lot of the species are Western versions of the Eastern ones I saw in Uganda they were just amazing bird families, hornbills and plaintain eaters are both so great

I think Yellow Billed is a full species, at least under IOC,

 

[Scridifer]

Great stuff Chris, so Gambia into Morocco? if so thats going to be some amazing birding. I really want to get to Western Africa even if a lot of the species are Western versions of the Eastern ones I saw in Uganda they were just amazing bird families, hornbills and plaintain eaters are both so great

I think Yellow Billed is a full species, at least under IOC,

Thanks Owen, got back last night, off to Morocco the beginning of next month. Re Kite I think you are right but it is going to be lumped. I will adjust it for the time being as it will make tallying list easier!

Chris

 

[Owene]

Sorry, didn't check the dates on the gambian post, hope it was a good trip. I'm thinking between there, ghana and cape town for 2027 but not sure which yet

 

[foresttwitcher]

I hope you had a great time in The Gambia. Looking forward (enviously) to the rest of the list updates.

 

[Scridifer]

29/01/25 Kotu general area, WCR, The Gambia

88) Laughing Dove
89) Common Bulbul
90) Red-billed Firefinch
91) Western Reef Heron
92) Pied Kingfisher
93) Long-tailed Cormorant
94) Beautiful Sunbird
95) African Mourning Dove
96) Blue-breasted Kingfisher
97) Squacco Heron
98) African Sacred Ibis
99) Green Sandpiper
100) African Palm Swift
101) Giant Kingfisher
102) Black Heron
103) Whimbrel
104) Purple Heron
105) Piapiac
106) Speckled Pigeon
107) Abyssinian Roller
108) Blue-bellied Roller
109) Rose-ringed Parakeet
110) Lesser Honeyguide
111) Green Wood-hoopoe
112) Red-eyed Dove
113) Bronze Mannikin
114) Yellow-billed Shrike
115) Village Weaver
116) Fork-tailed Drongo
117) Brown Babbler
118) Grey-backed Camaroptera
119) Northern White-faced Owl
120) Pearl-spotted Owlet
121) Common Redshank
122) Greater Painted-snipe
123) White-billed Buffalo Weaver
124) Greenshank
125) Senegal Coucal
126) Wire-tailed Swallow