Birds during our
Tour
in Spain (Espana)
(with some time in adjacent Portugal)
September 22 - October 3, 2005
Compiled by Armas Hill,
leader of the tour
There have been 23 FONT birding tours in Spain.
Cumulatively, 287 species of birds have been found.
Codes:
w: during the portion of the
tour west of Madrid, including Extremadura & the Gredos Mountains
e: during the portion of the tour east of Madrid, including the Ebro Delta &
Spanish Steppes
p: in Portugal, adjacent to Extremadura
(t): a globally threatened or
rare species.
(t1): critical
(t2): endangered
(t3): vulnerable
(nt): near-threatened species
(cd): conservation dependent
(Ee): endangered in Europe
(Ev): vulnerable in Europe
(Er): rare in Europe
(Ed): has declined in Europe
(El): localized in Europe
All of above designations by Birdlife
International.
(r/EU): rare in Europe
(i): an introduced species
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Birds:
- Great Crested Grebe -
w,e
- Little
Grebe/"Dabchick" - w,e
- (Great) Cormorant - w,e
- Grey Heron - w,e,p
- Purple Heron (Ev) - e
- Great (White) Egret - e
- Little Egret - w,e,p
- Cattle Egret - w,e,p
- (Black-crowned) Night-Heron
(Ed) - w,e
- White Stork (Ev) - w,e
- Black Stork (Er) - w
- Greater Flamingo (El) - e
- Common Shelduck - w,e
- Mallard - w,e
- Gadwall (Ev) - w,e
- (Common) Teal - w
(has been considered conspecific with
Green-winged Teal of North America)
- (Northern) Shoveler - w
- Red-crested Pochard (Ed) - e
- Red Kite - w
- Monk (has also been called Eurasian
Black/Cinereous)
Vulture (nt) (Ev) - w
- Eurasian Griffon (Vulture) (Er)
- w,e
- (Eurasian/Northern) Sparrowhawk
- w
- (Common) Buzzard - w,e,p
- Booted Eagle (Er) - p
- Golden Eagle (Er) - w
- Spanish (Imperial)/Adalbert's
Eagle (t3) (Ee) - w
- Eurasian (or Northern) Marsh-Harrier
- e (now considered conspecific
with what was Eastern
Marsh-Harrier of Asia)
- Peregrine Falcon (Er) ______ - w
- (Northern/Eurasian) Hobby - w
- Lesser Kestrel (t3) (Ev) - w
- Merlin - w
- Common/Eurasian) Kestrel (Ed) -
w,e,p
- Red-legged Partridge (Ev) - w
- Moorhen / Common Gallinule - w,e
- Western Swamphen (Er) - e
(has been considered conspecific with African
Swamphen and Grey-headed Swamphen, and called Purple
Swamphen)
- (Eurasian) Coot - w,e
- Great Bustard (t3) (Ed) - w
- Little Bustard (nt) (Ev) - w
- Grey/Black-bellied Plover - e
- (Eurasian) Dotterel e
- Little Ringed Plover w,e
- Kentish/Snowy Plover (Ed) ______ e
- Northern Lapwing ______ w.e
- (Eurasian/Pied) Avocet - e
- Black-winged Stilt - e
- (Ruddy) Turnstone - e
- Dunlin (Ev) - e
- Curlew Sandpiper - e
- Little Stint - e
- Wood Sandpiper (Ed) - w,e
- (Common) Greenshank - w,e
- (Common) Redshank (Ed) - e
- Spotted Redshank - e
- Green Sandpiper - w,e
- Common Sandpiper - w,e
- Ruff/Reeve - e
- (Eurasian) Whimbrel - e
(has been considered conspecific with (American) Whimbrel, or
"Hudsonian
Curlew" of North America)
- (Eurasian) Curlew (Ed) - e
- Black-tailed Godwit (Ev) - e
- Bar-tailed Godwit (El) - e
- Common/Holarctic Snipe - w,e
(has been considered conspecific with what's now Wilson's/Common Snipe of
North America)
- Audouin's Gull (nt) (El) e
- Slender-billed Gull e
- Black-headed Gull w,e,p
- Mediterranean Gull e
- Little Gull - e
- Herring Gull ______ e
- Yellow-legged Gull e
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- w,e
- Great Black-backed Gull - e
- Caspian Tern (Ee) - e
- Sandwich Tern (Ed) - e
- Common Tern -
e
- Black Tern (Ed) - e
- Feral Pigeon -
w,e,p
- (Common) Woodpigeon w,e
- (Eurasian) Collared Dove w,e.p
- Great Spotted Cuckoo - w
- Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Ev) - w
- Little Owl (Ed) w
- (Eurasian) Nightjar (Ed) - e
- Alpine Swift - w
- (Common/Eurasian) Kingfisher
(Ed) - e
- (Eurasian) Hoopoe - w
- Great Spotted Woodpecker - w
- (Greater) Short-toed Lark (Ev)
- e
-
Calandra Lark (Ed) - w,e,p
- (Eurasian) Skylark (Ev) - w
- Crested Lark (Ed) - w,e,p
- Thekla Lark (Ev) - w
- (Barn) Swallow - w,e
- Red-rumped Swallow - w
- (Eurasian) Crag-Martin - w,e,p
- Sand Martin/Bank Swallow (Ed) -
e
- (European) House Martin - w,e
- Dunnock - w
- (White-throated) Dipper - w
- (Eurasian) Water Pipit - w
- Tawny Pipit (Ev) - w
- White Wagtail - w,e (treated as distinct from Pied Wagtail
of the UK,
and Masked and Moroccan Wagtails)
- Grey Wagtail - w
- Iberian (has been part of Yellow)
Wagtail - w,e,p
- Spotted/Brown-streaked
Flycatcher (Ed) - w
- (European) Pied Flycatcher - w,e,p
- Whinchat - w,p
- (Common) Stonechat (Ed) - w,e,p
- (Northern) Wheatear - w
- Western Black-eared Wheatear (Ev)
- w,e,p
(split from Eastern Black-eared Wheatear)
- Black Redstart - w,e
- (European) Robin - w,e
- Blue Rock Thrush (Ev) - w,e
- (Eurasian) Blackbird - w,e
- Mistle Thrush - w
- Zitting Cisticola - e
- (European) Reed-Warbler - w,e,p
(has been conisidered conspecific with Caspian
Reed-Warbler, and collectively called Eurasian Reed-Warbler)
- Melodious Warbler - w,p
- (Common/Greater) Whitethroat - p
- Blackcap - w,e
- Sardinian Warbler - w
- Subalpine Warbler - w
- Dartford Warbler (Ev) - w
- (Common/Eurasian) Chiffchaff - w,e,p
- Goldcrest - w
- Great Tit - w,e
- Blue Tit - w,e,p
- Coal Tit - w,e
- (Northern) Crested Tit - w
- Long-tailed Tit - w,e
- (Eurasian/Common) Nuthatch - w
- Short-toed Treecreeper - w
- Southern Grey Shrike (Ed) - w,e,p
- (Eurasian) Jay - w
- Azure-winged Magpie (i?) -
w
- (Eurasian) Magpie - w,e,p
- (Red-billed) Chough (Ev) - e
- (Common/Northern) Raven - w.e
- Eurasian/"Carrion"
Crow - w,e
- (Common/Eurasian) Jackdaw - w
- Spotless Starling - w,e,p
- House Sparrow - w,e,p
- Chaffinch - w,e
- (European) Goldfinch - w,e,p
- (Eurasian) Linnet -
w
- (European) Serin - w,e
- (Red/Common) Crossbill - w
- Corn Bunting - w
- Western Rock Bunting (Ev) - w,e
- Yellowhammer - w
- Ortolan Bunting (Ev) - w