Birdwatching Holidays in Spain, Morocco & more…

BOLETAS Birdwatching centre 22192 Loporzano (Huesca) – Spain

tel/fax 00 34 974 262027 or 01162 889318 e.mail: josele@boletas.org // www.boletas.org Esther Diago Millán - NIF 38493051K

BIRD HIGHLIGHTS

TOUR

Iberian Lynx in Andalucia

DATES January 13th to 16th 2015

Party: Pete  Smith,  Cheryl  Smith,  Ken  Charity  ,Tracey  Charity   Tour Leader : Josele J. Saiz

Total Number Species : 64 + 2 Iberian Lynx + 4 mammals

Weather & Sites:

Day 1 – Jan 09

Nice & Sunnyn 21ºC Malaga airport – El Ricon Lake – Zojar Lake – Andujar

Day 2 – Jan 10

Nice sunny 18ºC Andujar Natural Park

Day 3 – Jan 11

Nice and sunny Jandula Reservoir and Andujar Natural Park

Day 4 – Jan 12

Foggy but Sunny El Encinarejo – Santuario virgen de la cabeza

Day 5 – Jan 13

Nice sunny Andujar to Malaga

RECOMMENDED SIGNS:

Vista/Seen ( X ) Oida/Heard (H )Abundant (XXX) Common (XX) Rare (+) Juvenile (Juv) Immature

(Inm) Adult (ad) Female Male

English Name Latin Name 1 2 3 4 5

1. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus x 2. Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis x 3. Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis x 4. Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo x x x 5. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis x 6. White Stork Ciconia ciconia x 7. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos x 8. White headed Duck Oxiyra leucocephala x 9. Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata x

10. Common Pochard Aythya ferina x 11. Black Vulture Aegypius monachus x 12. Eurasian Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus x x x 13. Red Kite Milvus milvus x 14. Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos x x x 15. Spanish Imperial Eagle Aquila adalberti x x 16. Northern Goshawk Accipiter nisus x 17. Common Buzzard Buteo buteo x 18. Eurasian Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus x 19. Peregrine Falcon Falco columbarius x 20. Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus x x 21. Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa xx xx x x 22. Common Coot Fulica atra x 23. Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus x 24. Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus x 25. Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus x 26. Feral Pigeon Columba livia feral x x x x 27. Common Wood-Pigeon Columba palumbus x x x 28. Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto x x x x 29. Tawny Owl Strix aluco h h h 30. Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops x 31. Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major x 32. Eurasian Green Woodpecker Picus viridis x x x x 33. Wood Lark Lullula arborea x 34. Crested Lark Galerida cristata x 35. Eurasian Crag-Martin Hirundo rupestris x x x 36. Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis x x 37. White Wagtail Motacilla alba x x x x 38. Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea x x x 39. Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti x 40. Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla x x x x 41. Sardinian Warbler Sylvia melanocephala x x x x 42. Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata x 43. Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita x x x 44. Common Stonechat Saxicola rubicola x x 45. Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros x x x x 46. European Robin Erithacus rubecula x x x x

47. Song Thrush Turdus philomelos x x x x 48. Common Blackbird Turdus merula x x x x 49. Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus x x x 50. Blue Tit Parus caeruleus x x x 51. Great Tit Parus major x x x x 52. Eurasian Magpie Pica pica x x x x 53. Iberian Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cookii x x x x 54. Common Raven Corvus corax x x 55. Red billed Chough Corvus corone x 56. Eurasian Jackdaw Corvus monedula x 57. House Sparrow Passer domesticus x x x x 58. Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor x x x x 59. Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs xx x x x 60. European Serin Serinus serinus x x x x 61. European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis x x x x 62. European Greenfinch Carduelis chloris x x x x 63. Hawfinch Cocothraustes cocothraustes x 64. Rock Bunting Emberiza cia x x x

Mammals of Andalucia

English Name Latin Name 1 Iberian Lynx Lynx pardinus 2 Red Deer Cervus elaphus x Fallow Deer Dama dama x Mouflon Ovis musimon x x

Pictures by Pete Smith