tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25313050291550914652024-03-13T07:20:43.984+01:00Birds of Extremadura (Spain)News and comments about the birds of Extremadura (SW Spain). Written by Javier Prieta (javierprieta@gmail.com) Translated by Martin Kelsey - http://birdingextremadura.blogspot.com.es/ (since May 2013), Dave Langlois (May 2010-September 2012), Steve Fletcher (October 2012-April 2013) and Martin Kelsey (April 2013-May 2014) - Versión en castellano: http://aves-extremadura.blogspot.com/Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-71595983374034306042014-05-01T22:51:00.000+02:002015-01-15T22:53:30.299+01:00FOLLOW US ON "AVES DE EXTREMADURA"<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">We are sorry, this blog in English is closed. But you can continue reading our blog in Spanish on "Aves de Extremadura" <a href="http://aves-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/">http://aves-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/</a>.</span>Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-28096389800446303542014-04-15T12:45:00.000+02:002014-04-23T00:24:57.689+02:00MARCH 2014. Notable observations in Extremadura<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); widows: 2; orphans: 2; }</style>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>Annotated
list of the most noteworthy records throughout March 2014. Compiled
and with illustration above of Lesser Kestrel, adult male (</i></span><span style="color: black;">Falco
naumanni</span><span style="color: black;"><i>),
by Sergio Mayordomo.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="color: black;"><i>Translated by MARTIN KELSEY.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>-Barnacle
Goose: </b></span><span style="color: black;">
Two remained in Santa Amalia (BA) on 05/03 (Marc Gálvez, </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Jose
Guerra -photo-</i></span><span style="color: black;"> and
Julio Merayo), 07/03 (Vanessa de Alba, Antonio Núñez and Fernando
Yuste) and 16/03 (Lorenzo Alcántara).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Egyptian Goose</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
Two at Tozo reservoir, Torrecillas de la Tiesa (CC) on 08/03 (Genaro
Sánchez) and 25/03 (Martin Kelsey). Eight at Valdecañas reservoir
(CC) on 15/03 (Sergio Mayordomo and Eva Palacios). Two at the Campazo
lagoon, La Aldea del Obispo (CC), on 27/03 (Neil Renwick).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Common Shelduck</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
Seven at La Albuera lagoons (BA) on 08/03 (A. Núñez) and 11/03
(Jose Antonio Román). Seven at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 15/03
(S. Mayordomo and E. Palacios). Nine at Sierra Brava reservoir,
Zorita (CC), on 28/03 (M. Kelsey).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Red-crested Pochard:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> A
male at La Albuera lagoons (BA) on 07/03 (Juan Carlos Paniagua), two
pairs there on 08/03 (A. Núñez), 09/03 (F. Montaño) and 17/03
(Francisco Lopo). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">12
at Valdelagrana pools, La Albuera (BA) on 10/03 (Albert Cama, M.
Gálvez, J. Guerra and Matxalen Pauly). A pair at Moheda Alta,
Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 26/03 (M. Kelsey).</span></span> </div>
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-<b>Ferruginous
Duck</b>: <span style="color: black;">A
pair at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 13/03 (M. Kelsey), 16/03 (S.
Mayordomo -<i>photo</i>- and </span><span style="color: black;"><i>E.
Palacios</i></span><span style="color: black;">)
and 21/03 (Javier Briz), and two males and a female on 30/03 (S.
Mayordomo and E. Palacios). One at La Albuera lagoons (BA) on 21/03
(A. Núñez).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Common
Pheasant: </b></span><span style="color: black;">A
female at Madrigalejo (CC) on 07/03 (M. Kelsey). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Oliva de Mérida (BA) on 09/03 (Paco Bernáldez, M. Gálvez and P.
Macías). Four at Villanueva de la Vera (CC) on 22/03 (Dave
Langlois). </span></span><span style="color: black;">A
m,ale beside road between Trujillo and Monroy (CC) on 29/03 (M.
Kelsey).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Black-necked Grebe</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at La Albuera lagoons (BA) on 03/03 (L. Alcántara and M.
Kelsey). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 13/03 (M. Gálvez
and J. Guerra). </span></span><span style="color: black;">Three
at Moheda Alta, Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 26/03 (M.
Kelsey).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Squacco
heron</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 16/03 (S. Mayordomo and E.
Palacios) and 21/03 (J. Briz). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Two
at Brovales reservoir, Jerez de los Caballeros (BA), on 25/03 (F.
Montaño and Joaquín Vázquez).</span></span></div>
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<span lang="es-ES">-</span><span lang="es-ES"><b>Glossy
Ibis</b></span><span lang="es-ES">: </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Moheda Alta, Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 07/03 and 28/03 (M.
Kelsey). </span></span><span style="color: black;">22
at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 21/03 (J. Briz), five there on 23/03
(S. Mayordomo and E. Palacios), seven on 28/03, 11 on 29/03 (J. Briz)
and five on 30/03 (S. Mayordomo </span><span style="color: black;"><i>-photo-</i></span><span style="color: black;"> y
E. Palacios). Three at Madrigalejo (CC) on 27/03 and 28/03 (Henk
Zweers).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Greater flamingo</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
22 at La Albuera lagoons (BA) between 03/03 and 13/03 (A. Cama, Juan
Cuesta, M. Gálvez, J. Guerra, M. Kelsey, A. Núñez, M. Pauly and J.
A. Román).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Pallid harrier: </b></span><span style="color: black;">An
adult male over Alange (BA) on 16/03 (M. Gálvez). Another adult male
at Higuera de Llerena (BA) on 26/03 (M. Gálvez, J. Guerra, F.
Montaño and Celestino Moreno).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Osprey</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 13/03 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra),
three on 17/03 (J. Guerra) and two on 29/03 (J. Guerra and John
Muddeman). One at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 16/03 (S. Mayordomo and
E. Palacios). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Salor reservoir, Cáceres, on 16/03 (Alberto Sánchez). One at
Cornalvo reservoir (BA) on 16/03 (Ángel T. Mejías).One at Valverde
de Mérida (BA) on 27/03 (J. Guerra). </span></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 30/03 (F. Lopo).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Little Crake</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
A male at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA) on 27/03 (M.
Gálvez and J. Guerra) and on 28/03 (Eduardo Amengual, V. de Alba, M.
Gálvez, F. Lopo, F. Montaño, A. Núñez and Jesús Solana).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Red-knobbed Coot</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
Two, one with collar, at La Albuera lagoons (BA) on 08/03 (Pedro
Mangas, Carmen Montaño and A. Núñez) and one without collar on
13/03 (Gustavo Gahete, P. Mangas and F. Montaño) and 14/03 (V. de
Alba, M. Gálvez, J. Guerra and A. Núñez).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Avocet</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
26 in the rice fields at Palazuelo (BA) on 06/03 (Juan Pablo Prieto
and Godfried Schreur). Two at La Albuera lagoons (BA) on 09/03 (F.
Montaño) and one there on 10/03 (A. Cama, M. Gálvez, J. Guerra and
M. Pauly). One at Torviscal (BA) on 17/03 (M. Gálvez).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Kentish Plover: </b></span><span style="color: black;">Two
at Palazuelo (BA) on 06/03 (J. P. Prieto and G. Schreur). Two at
Santa Amalia (BA) on 07/03 (V. de Alba, A. Núñez and F. Yuste).
Three at Moheda Alta on 21/03 and eight at Casas de Hitos,
Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 28/03 (M. Kelsey).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Temminck's Stint</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at El Torviscal (BA) on 17/03 (M. Gálvez). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 18/03 (J. Guerra).
</span></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Palazuelo (BA) on 21/03 (M. Kelsey).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Jack Snipe: </b></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Villagonzalo (BA) on 13/03 (M. Gálvez). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Arrocampo (CC) on 16/03 (S. Mayordomo). </span></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Palazuelo (BA) on 17/03 (M. Gálvez).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Woodcock: </b></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Bodonal de la Sierra (BA) on 02/03 (F. Montaño).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Curlew</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Palazuelo (BA) on 06/03 (J. P. Prieto and G. Schreur).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Lesser Yellowlegs</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
The over-wintering bird remaining at Palazuelo (BA) on 06/03 (J. P.
Prieto and G. Schreur) and on 10/03 (M. Kelsey).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Wood Sandpiper: </b></span><span style="color: black;">One
at El Batán rice fields (CC) on 10/03 (S. Mayordomo and J. Prieta).
One at Valdefuentes gravbel pits, Galisteo (CC), on 19/03 (S.
Mayordomo). Three at Galisteo lagoon (CC) on 22/03 (Javier Mahillo,
S. Mayordomo and E. Palacios). One at Galisteo rice fields (CC) on
26/03 (S. Mayordomo). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 27/03 (J. Guerra).
</span></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Campo Lugar (CC) on 30/03 (A. Calvo).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Mediterranean Gull:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Two
at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 03/03 (M. Gálvez)
and one on 13/03 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra). One at Santa Amalia (BA)
on 07/03 (V. de Alba, A. Núñez and F. Yuste).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Common Gull: </b></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 13/03 (M. Gálvez
and J. Guerra).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Yellow-legged Gull</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 03/03 (M.
Gálvez). One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 12/03 (J. A. Román). Two
at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 15/03 (S. Mayordomo and E.
Palacios). One on Guadiana River at Badajoz on 29/03 (J. C.
Paniagua).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Little tern: </b></span><span style="color: black;">12
on Guadiana River in Mérida (BA) on 02/03 (Ángel Sánchez).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Long-eared</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Owl:
One at Pago de San Clemente (CC) on 12/03 (M. Kelsey).</span></div>
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-<b>Wryneck</b>:
<span style="color: black;">One
at Palazuelo (BA) on 18/03 (A. Davies and R. Miller). One on trail at
Navacebreda, Plasencia (CC) on 20/03 (S. Mayordomo). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Moheda Alta, Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 21/03 (M. Kelsey).</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">- </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
Alpine Accentor: </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Salto del Gitano, Monfragüe (CC), on 02/03 (V. de Alba, Esther
Charles, Eva Juarros, S. Mayordomo, E. Palacios, José Portillo,
Diego Santamaría and Ivana). </span></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Montánchez castle (CC) on 08/03 (J. Nolan and G. Schreur). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Four
on Pico Villuercas (CC) on 09/03 (M. Kelsey). </span></span><span style="color: black;">Two
at Casares de Hurdes (CC) on 22/03 (Alberto Pacheco).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Bearded
Tit</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 08/03 (J. Briz</span><span style="color: black;">,
M. García del Rey, D. Langlois and Sammy Langlois -photo-), two males and a
female there on 13/03 (M. Kelsey) and one on 30/03 (S. Mayordomo and
E. Palacios).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><b>FIRST
SIGHTINGS OF SUMMER VISITORS AND SPRING OPASSAGE MIGRANTS </b></span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Garganey: </b></span><span style="color: black;">A
male at Galisteo lagoon (CC) on 07/03 (S. Mayordomo). A male at La
Albuera lagoons (BA) on 08/03 (A. Núñez) and 09/03 (Francisco
Montaño). A pair at Majadas Altas, Campo Lugar (CC), on 10/03 (M.
Kelsey) and on 15/03 (Antonio Calvo). A male at Brovales reservoir,
Jerez de los Caballeros (BA) on 21/03 (F. Montaño).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Montagu's Harrier: </b></span><span style="color: black;">A
male at Morante, Badajoz, on 10/03 (F. Lopo). Two males at Santa
Marta de Magasca (CC) on 16/03 (Alan Davies and Ruth Miller). Two
males and a female at La Albuera (BA) on 17/03 (F. Lopo).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Booted Eagle</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Jaraicejo (CC) on 09/03 (César Clemente and Manolo García
del Rey). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Casas del Castañar (CC) on 10/03 (Javier Prieta). One at Galisteo
(CC) on 10/03 (Ricardo Montero and J. Prieta).</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">- </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
Collared Pratincole: </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">12
at Villalba de los Barros reservoir (BA) on 20/03 (José María
Álvarez). One at Campo Lugar (CC) on 22/03 (A. Calvo). 14 at
Valverde de Mérida (BA) on 27/03 (J. Guerra).</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">- </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
Gull-billed tern</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">:
Two at Casas de Hitos, Navalvillar de Pela (BA) on 01/04 (M. Kelsey).
One at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 31/03 (M.
Gálvez). Present at Villalba de los Barros (BA) on 05/04 (J. M.
Álvarez). </span></span><span style="color: black;">Three
at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 06/04 (J. L. Bautista).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Whiskered Tern: </b></span><span style="color: black;">The
over-wintering bird remained on River Guadiana in Mérida (BA) on
01/03 (Juan José Ramos Encalado), on 06/03 (Á. Sánchez) and on
08/03 (Jeremy Nolan and G. Schreur). Arrivals: One at Soto gravel
pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 30/03 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra)
and on 31/03 (Claudia Camacho, M. Gálvez and M. Kelsey).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Turtle Dove: </b></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Feria (BA) on 15/03 and another at Almendralejo (BA) on 30/03
(Agustín Giraldo and Antonio María Sánchez).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Common Cuckoo:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> One
at Burguillos del Cerro (BA) on 05/03 (Francisco José Durán). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at Oliva de Mérida (BA) on 09/03 (P. Bernáldez, M. Gálvez and P.
Macías). </span></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Trujillo (CC) on 11/03 (J. Muddeman).First female at Villanueva de
la Vera (CC) on 30/03 (D. Langlois).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Scops Owl</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Pago de San Clemente (CC) on 12/03 (M. Kelsey). Three at
Plasencia on 16/03 (J. Prieta) and one mobbed by Magpies on 20/03 (S.
Mayordomo).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Red-necked Nightjar</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Campo Lugar (CC) on 22/03 (A. Calvo).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Common Swift: </b></span><span style="color: black;">Present
at Feria (BA) on 15/03 (A. Giraldo and A. M. Sánchez). One at Sierra
de Alor, Olivenza (BA) on 23/03 anbd several at Badajozonl 26/03 (J.
C. Paniagua).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
European Bee-eater:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Several
at Plasencia (CC) on 18/03 (Miguel Ángel Muñoz). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Also
at Burguillos del Cerro (BA) on 21/03 (F. J. Durán). </span></span><span style="color: black;">Several
at Torremejía (BA) on 22/03 (A. Giraldo and A. M. Sánchez).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Greater Short-toed Lark:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Three
at Santiago del Campo (CC) on 21/03 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo).
Two at Campo Lugar (CC) on 22/03 (A. Calvo) and one there on 28/03
(M. Kelsey).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Tree Pipit: </b></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Plasencia (CC) on 20/03 (J. L. Bautista) and another there on
02/04 (S. Mayordomo). Two at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 27/03 (M.
Kelsey).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Yellow Wagtail</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Soto gravel pit, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 13/03 (J.
Guerra). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">One
at El Torviscal (BA) on 17/03 (M. Gálvez). </span></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Valdefuentes gravel pit, Galisteo (CC) on 19/03 (S. Mayordomo).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Common Nightingale:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> One
at Brovales, Jerez de los Caballeros (BA), on 21/03 (F. Montaño).
One at Villanueva de la Vera (CC) on 29/03 (D. Langlois) and another
at Alange (BA) (E. Amengual and M. Gálvez).One at Llera (BA) on
30/03 (V. de Alba and A. Núñez).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Common Redstart:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> One
at Palazuelo (BA) on 18/03 (A. Davies and R. Miller). Four at
Salvatierra de los Barros (BA) on 30/03 (F. Montaño).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Northern Wheatear: </b></span><span style="color: black;">A
female at La Aldea del Obispo (CC) on 02/03 (N. Renwick). One at Los
Cerralbos, Trujillo (CC) on 08/03 (M. Kelsey). A male at Hinojal (CC)
on 09/03 (S. Mayordomo and E. Palacios).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Black-eared Wheatear:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> A
male at Trujillo (CC) on 11/03 (J. Muddeman). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">A
male at Peraleda de la Mata (CC) on 15/03 (S. Mayordomo and E.
Palacios). </span></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Alange (BA) on 18/03 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Savi's Warbler</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 13/03 (M. Kelsey) and on 14/03 (C.
Clemente and S. Mayordomo). One on River Guadiloba, Cáceres, on
17/03 and two in Plasencia (CC) on 18/03 (J. L. Bautista).</span></div>
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Warbler: </b></span><span style="color: black;">Four
at Soto gravbel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 18/03 (J. Guerra)
and on 27/03 (M. Gálvez), two there on 28/03 (V. de Alba, F. Lopo,
F. Montaño, A. Núñez and J. Solana) and three on 31/03 (C.
Camacho, M. Gálvez and M. Kelsey). One at Viñuelas gravel pits,
Galisteo (CC) on 19/03 (S. Mayordomo). UOne at River Gargáligas
between Obando and Acederas (BA) (W. Haworth -photo-) and two at
Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 23/03 (J. Prieta).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Reed Warbler:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Two
at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 13/03 (M. Gálvez).
One trapped for ringing at Budión, Rena (BA), on 15/03
(GIA-Extremadura). Two on River Gargáligas between Obando and
Acedera (BA) on 21/03 (William Haworth).</span></div>
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<b>-Spectacled
</b><span style="color: black;"><b>Warbler:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> A
male between Trujillo and Santa Marta de Magasca (CC) on 07/03 (J.
Nolan -photo- and G. Schreur). </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Earliest
ever arrival date. </i></span><span style="color: black;">A
male in Monfragüe (CC) on 05/04 (S. Mayordomo).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Subalpine Warbler: </b></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Plasencia (CC) on 10/03 (R. Montero). One in Monfragüe (CC) (M.
Kelsey) and two at Miravete Pass (CC) on 11/03 (J. Nolan and G.
Schreur).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Iberian chiffchaff: </b></span><span style="color: black;">Three
at Villanueva de la Vera (CC) on 15/03, one on 20/03 and another on
24/03 (D. Langlois). Two on Navacebreda trail, Plasencia (CC), on
20/03 (S. Mayordomo). Two at River Gargáligas, Vegas Altas (BA) on
26/03 (M. Kelsey). One at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA),
on 27/03 (M. Gálvez).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Willow Warbler</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Plasencia (CC) (S. Mayordomo) and another at Valverde de
Mérida (BA) on 13/03 (M. Gálvez). One at Arrocampo reservoir (CC)
on 16/03 (S. Mayordomo and E. Palacios).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Eurasian Golden Oriole</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
Two at Alange (BA) on 29/03 (E. Amengual and M. Gálvez). A male at
La Lapa (BA) on 30/03 (F. Montaño).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Woodchat
Shrike</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at Acehúche (CC) on 09/03 (Manuela Rodríguez). One at La
Albuera (BA) on 10/03 (A. Cama, M. Gálvez, J. Guerra and M. Pauly).
One at Santa Marta de Magasca (CC) on 11/03 (J. Muddeman).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><b>LAST
RECORDS OF WINTER VISITORS</b></span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Stock
Dove</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
Five at La Albuera (BA) on 09/03 (F. Montaño) and six on 10/03 (A.
Cama, M. Gálvez, J. Guerra and M. Pauly). Two at Riolobos (CC) on
10/03 (S. Mayordomo).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Pied Wagtail</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
A male at El Batán rice fields (CC) on 10/03 (S. Mayordomo y J.
Prieta). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">A
male at Galisteo lagoon (CC) on 26/03 (S. Mayordomo).</span></span></div>
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- <b>Redwing</b>:
<span style="color: black;">Uno
en Pago de San Clemente (CC) el 12/03 (M. Kelsey).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Siskin:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> Two
in pines at Piornal (CC) on 17/03 (J. Prieta). Eight at Villanueva de
la Vera (CC) on 20/03 (D. Langlois).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Bullfinch: </b></span><span style="color: black;">A
male at </span><span style="color: black;">Villanueva
de la Vera (CC) on 15/03 (D. Langlois). A pair at Ojaranzo, Monfragüe
(CC), on 18/03 (J. L. Bautista). One at Llera (BA) on 30/03 (V. de
Alba and A. Núñez -photo-).</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">- </span><span style="color: black;"><b>
Reed Bunting: </b></span><span style="color: black;">Five
at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 10/03 (J. Muddeman). </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Two
females at Valdefuentes, Galisteo (CC), 16/03 (J. Prieta).</span></span></div>
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<i>Annotated
list of the most noteworthy records throughout February 2014.
Compiled and with illustration above of Black-necked Grebe (</i>Podiceps
nigricollis<i>), by Sergio Mayordomo.</i><br />
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TRANSLATED BY MARTIN KELSEY</div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><b>-Barnacle
Goose</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: Two on the ricefields of Santa
Amalia (BA) on 25/02 (Fernando Yuste).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Egyptian
Goose</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: Three on Soto gravel pits,
Valverde de Mérida (BA) on 12/02 (Marc Gálvez and José Guerra).
Six at Los Arenales, Cáceres, on 16/02 (Alberto Sánchez). Four on
the pool at Morante, Badajoz, on 17/02 (José Luis Bautista). </span>Two
on Alcollarín reservoir (CC) on 22/02 (Antonio Calvo). <span lang="en-GB">Two
at Orellana reservoir (BA) on 23/02 (Francisco Montaño and Gema
Montaño).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ruddy Shelduck</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at rice fields at El Batán (CC) on 03/02 (Sergio Mayordomo). One
at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 12/02 (M. Gálvez
and J. Guerra).</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Common
Shelduck</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One at Sierra Brava
reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 09/02 (Martin Kelsey). Three at Guareña
(BA) on 12/02 (José Antonio Román). Six at Los Canchales reservoir
(BA) on 16/02 (J. L. Bautista). 18 at rice fields at Santa Amalia
(BA) on 22/02 and 22 on 25/02 (F. Yuste). Three at Palazuelo
ricefields (BA) on 26/02 (Urban Bühlmann, Juan Pablo Prieto and
Kirsten Walker).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Red-crested
Pochard</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: 7 on lagoons at La Albuera
(BA) on 09/02 (Juan Carlos Paniagua) and on 20/02 (John Muddeman, J.
P. Prieto and Godfried Schreur). A male at River Ardila (BA) on 15/02
(F. Montaño). One at Orellana reservoir (BA) on 16/02 (M. Kelsey
and Patrick Kelsey) and four on 23/02 (F. Montaño and G. Montaño).</span></div>
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<b>-
Black-necked Grebe</b>: 40 at Orellana reservoir (BA) on 09/02 (S.
Mayordomo and Eva Palacios), 30 on 16/02 (M. Kelsey and P. Kelsey
-photo-), seven on 22/02 (Vanessa de Alba and Antonio Núñez) and 18
on 23/02 (F. Montaño and G. Montaño). One at Sierra Brava
reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 16/02 (M. Kelsey and P. Kelsey). Two at
lagoons at La Albuera (BA) on 20/02 (J. Muddeman, J. P. Prieto and G.
Schreur) and one there on 22/02 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra).<br />
- <b>Great
White Egret</b>: 12 at Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC), on 02/02 (M.
Kelsey) and 25 there on 17/02 (Manuel García del Rey).<br />
- <b>Glossy
Ibis</b>: One at rice fields at El Batán (CC) on 03/02 (S.
Mayordomo).<br />
- <b>Greater Flamingo</b>: 14 at the lagoons at
La Albuera (BA) on 24/02 (Andrés Vega).<br />
- <b>Goshawk</b>:
One at Puerto Peña (BA) on 16/02 (M. Kelsey and P. Kelsey).<br />
- <b>Booted
Eagle</b>: One at Guadiana del Caudillo (BA) on 02/02 (J. L.
Bautista). One at Casatejada (CC) on 08/02 (M. Á. Muñoz and E.
Palacios).<br />
- <b>Osprey</b>: One at Arrocampo reservoir (CC)
on 23/02 (José María Herranz).</div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><b>-Purple
Swamphen</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: Adult with three chicks at
Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 25/02 (Michel Viskens).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Avocet</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Lugar Nuevo, Peraleda de la Mata (CC), on 01/02 (S.
Mayordomo). One at rice fields at Medellín (BA) on 15/02 (F. Yuste).
62 on rice fields at Palazuelo (BA) on 26/02 (U. Bühlmann, J. P.
Prieto and K. Walker).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Kentish
Plover</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: 25 on rice fields at Puebla de
Alcollarín (BA) on 01/02 (M. Kelsey) and 12 on 22/02 (V. de Alba and
A. Núñez) and on 26/02 (U. Bühlmann, J. P. Prieto and K.
Walker).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Dotterel</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
Six at Hinojal (CC) on 01/02 (Dave Langlois and Sammy Langlois) and
15 on 07/02 (Alberto Gil). One at Valverde de Mérida (BA) on 03/02
(J. Guerra) and on 04/02 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra). Six at Cabeza
del Buey (BA) on 08/02 (Jus Pérez, José Portillo and Alber
Sanmartí) and three on 23/02 (Paco Bernáldez, J. Guerra and Paco
Macías). 19 at Castuera (BA) on 23/02 (P. Bernáldez, J. Guerra and
P. Macías).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jack Snipe</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Valverde de Mérida (BA) on 03/02 (J. Guerra). Five seen on
rice fields at Puebla de Alcollarín (BA) on 08/02 (J. Pérez, J.
Portillo and A. Sanmartí). One at Talaván reservoir (CC) on 15/02
(Juan José Ramos Encalado).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Curlew</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
Two on rice fields at Santa Amalia (BA) on 15/02 and four on 22/02
(F. Yuste). Three on rice fields at Palazuelo (BA) on 26/02 (U.
Bühlmann, J. P. Prieto and K. Walker).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Lesser
Yellowlegs</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One remaining between
Puebla de Alcollarín and Palazuelo (BA) on 10/02 (M. Kelsey), 12/02
(A. Gil), 18/02 (Santiago Avis), 22/02 (V. de Alba and A. Núñez)
and 26/02 (U. Bühlmann, J. P. Prieto and K. Walker).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mediterranean
Gull</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One at Alange reservoir (BA) on
05/02 and on 09/02 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra). One at rice fields at
Santa Amalia (BA) on 08/02 (J. Pérez, J. Portillo and A. Sanmartí).
One at Torremejías (BA) on 09/02 (J. Guerra, J. Pérez, J. Portillo
and A. Sanmartí) and another on rice fields at Navalvillar de Pela
(BA) (S. Mayordomo and E. Palacios). One at Soto gravel pits,
Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 12/02 and 14/02 (M. Gálvez and J.
Guerra).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Common Gull</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 09/02 (M. Gálvez).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Yellow-legged
Gull</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One at Charco Salado, Casatejada
(CC), on 02/02 (M. Kelsey). One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 05/02 (M.
Gálvez and J. Guerra). One at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida
(BA), on 12/02 and two on 14/02 (M. Gálvez and J.
Guerra).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Kittiwake</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One received at the Animal Recovery Centre Los Hornos which had been
collected at Valencia de Alcántara (CC) on 10/02 (pers.com Javier
Caldera). It died the following day.<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Little
Gull</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: A first winter bird at Orellana
reservoir (BA) on 09/02 (S. Mayordomo and E. Palacios), on 16/02 (M.
Kelsey and P. Kelsey) and on 22/02 (V. de Alba and A. Núñez); and
an adult there on 09/02 (M. Kelsey). </span>One present at the
lagoons of La Albuera (BA) on 16/02 (José María Álvarez).
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</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Caspian Tern</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Orellana reservoir (BA) on 23/02 (F. Montaño and G.
Montaño).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Whiskered Tern</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Montijo reservoir, Mérida (BA), on 27/02 (J.
Guerra).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>White-winged Black
Tern</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One remaining at Orellana
reservoir (BA) on 08/02 (J. Pérez, J. Portillo and A. Sanmartí),
09/02 (S. Mayordomo and E. Palacios), 22/02 (V. de Alba and A. Núñez)
and 23/02 (F. Montaño and G. Montaño).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Stock
Dove</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: At least five at Galisteo (CC) on
08/02 (Javier Prieta), one on 10/02, two on 17/02 (S. Mayordomo) and
200 on 27/02 (M. Kelsey). 20 at Valverde de Leganés (BA) on 20/02
(J. Muddeman, J. P. Prieto and G. Schreur) and one on 22/02 (M.
Gálvez and J. Guerra).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ring-necked
Parakeet</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One at Mérida (BA) on 20/02
(Jesús Solana). Two at Campofrío, Badajoz, on 22/02 (M. Gálvez and
J. Guerra).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Wryneck</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at River Bembézar, Azuaga (BA) on 01/02 (V. de Alba and A.
Núñez). One trapped for ringing at River Gargáligas, Rena (BA), on
23/02 (GIA Extremadura).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Pied
Wagtail</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One at Valverde de Mérida
(BA) on 04/02 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra). Two in a roost in Plasencia
(CC) on 10/02 and three on 19/02 (J. Prieta). One at Acehúche (CC)
on 15/02 (Iván Solana). One at Galisteo (CC) on 17/02 (S.
Mayordomo). </span>One at Majadas Altas, Campo Lugar (CC), on 23/02
(A. Calvo). <span lang="en-GB">One in the dehesa boyal of La Roca de
la Sierra (BA) on 26/02 (G. Schreur).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Alpine
Accentor</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: Two at Montánchez castle
(CC) on 01/02 (M. Kelsey). One or two at Alange castle (BA) on 24/02
(M. Gálvez) and one there on 25/02 (J. Guerra).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Snow
Finch</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One at Jálama peak, Acebo (CC),
on 19/02 (A. Gil). First record for Extremadura. Still present there
on 23/02César Clemente and S. Mayordomo).</span></div>
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<b>FIRST
SPRING MIGRANTS</b></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="en-GB">- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Purple
Heron</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One at Torremayor (BA) on 28/02
(J. P. Prieto).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Black Kite</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Valverde de Mérida (BA) on 13/02 (M. Gálvez). </span>One at
Cáceres on 14/02 (J. L. Bautista). One at Plasencia on 15/02 (S.
Mayordomo, Miguel Ángel Muñoz and E. Palacios).<br />
- <b>Egyptian
Vulture</b>: One at La Aldea del Obispo (CC) on 18/02 (Neil Renwick).
One at Cáceres on 22/02 (J. Muddeman and G. Schreur). <span lang="en-GB">One
at Alburquerque (BA) on 23/02 (J. Muddeman and G.
Schreur).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Short-toed Eagle</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Alange (BA) on 26/02 (M. Gálvez) and another at Santa Cruz de
la Sierra (CC) (U. Bühlmann, J. P. Prieto and K. Walker). One at
Mérida on 01/03 (J. Solana) and two between Trujillo and Torrejón
el Rubio (CC) (M. Kelsey).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ringed
Plover</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: 20 on rice fields at Puebla de
Alcollarín (BA) on 01/02 (M. Kelsey), present on 23/02 (V. de Alba
and A. Núñez) and 23 on 26/02 (U. Bühlmann, J. P. Prieto and K.
Walker).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Alpine Swift</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
Three at Alange (BA) on 20/02 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra). </span>One
at Guadiana River in Badajoz on 26/02 (G. Schreur). <span lang="en-GB">One
in Mérida (BA) on 03/03 (M. Kelsey).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Sand
Martin</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One at Soto gravel pit,
Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 14/02 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra) and
more then ten there on 03/03 (M. Gálvez).<br />- </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Red-rumped
Swallow</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: One at Alange (BA) on 25/02
(J. Guerra). One at </span>Monfragüe (CC) on 28/02 (Esther Charles
and Ivana).</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>Lanner
Falcon <span style="color: black;">(</span><span style="color: black;"><i>Falco
biarmicus</i></span><span style="color: black;">).
2º year bird. Santiago del Campo-Monroy, Cáceres, 4th May 2013
(John Dreyer Andersen).</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Extremadura
is a region at the periphery of a country at the periphery of Europe.
It is a place about which generally little is spoken of across the
continent, apart from about birds. For example there is the Facebook
group </span><span style="color: black;"><b>"</b></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/123681044507902/"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><b>Extremadura
Birdwatching</b></span></a><span style="color: black;"><b>",
created by Ib Helles Olesen</b></span><span style="color: black;">,
a Dane living in Copenhagen, giving information about birds in
Extremadura and taking into account posts from this blog. Interesting
records also appear. One example is a photograph of a </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Lanner
Falcon</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: black;"><i><b>(Falco
biarmicus</b></i></span><span style="color: black;"><b>),
a second-year immature, seen in the district of </b></span><span style="color: black;">Cuatro
Lugares, </span><span style="color: black;"><b>close
to Monroy (Cáceres), on 4 May 2013 by another Dane</b></span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;"><b>John
D. Andersen.</b></span><span style="color: black;"><br /><br />We
had a </span><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/lanner-falcon-near-trujillo.html"><span style="color: #472e9b;">post in June 2013</span></a><span style="color: black;"> about
this species concerning a sighting near Trujillo which was of another
individual (a subadult). In that post there is further information
about the status of the species in Extremadura. The record described
here from Monroy would be the </span><span style="color: black;"><b>fifth
confirmed record in Extremadura</b></span><span style="color: black;">,
all of them in steppe areas (La Serena, Llanos de Cáceres-Trujillo,
Cuatro Lugares), apart from one in Plasencia. The species has been
recorded in </span><span style="color: black;"><b>January,
May (2 records) and June (two records) </b></span><span style="color: black;">and
all pertain to </span><span style="color: black;"><b>immature
birds</b></span><span style="color: black;">.
<br /><br />We thank Ib Helles for his initiative in spreading the news
and look forward to further collaboration in the future. </span>
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Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-19243891858077611182014-02-22T13:09:00.000+01:002014-04-23T00:26:13.332+02:00SNOW FINCH: NEW FOR EXTREMADURA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Snow Finch (Montifringilla nivalis). Peña de Francia (Salamanca). </div>
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14th November 2012. Ricardo Montero.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b>A
Snow Finch (</b></span><span style="color: black;"><i><b>Montifringilla
nivalis</b></i></span><span style="color: black;"><b>),
the first one seen with certainty in Extremadura, was recorded on
19th</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>
February 2014 on the Jálama peak (Acebo, Cáceres) by Alberto
Gil </b></span><span style="color: black;">whilst
he was undertaking a botanical study. The individual (not
photographed) was present on patches of snow top of the peak, at
about 1,500 metres above sea-level, the third highest point in the
Sierra de Gata and on the border with Salamanca province. It was seen
perched and in flight and giving its typical call. There were
close-by four Alpine Accentors (</span><span style="color: black;"><i>Prunella
collaris</i></span><span style="color: black;">),
which are scarce but not unusual in Extremadura in the winter. </span>
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<span style="color: black;">The
high montane habitat is poorly represented in Extremadura. Given its
scarcity and difficult access, it is little visited by
ornithologists, and therefore it is not unusual that it is Alberto
Gil (</span><a href="http://desdeeltorreon.blogspot.com.es/"><span style="color: #472e9b;">see
personal</span></a><span style="color: black;">
blog), an experienced naturalist with a wide knowledge of montane
flora, who has provided us with most of the knowledge about
alpine-zone bird species in Extremadura, especially in the breeding
season (</span><a href="http://desdeeltorreon.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/aves-reproductoras-en-la-alta-montana.html">read
more</a><span style="color: black;">).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It
is important to note that in the map for this species in the Atlas of
Birds in Winter in Spain (</span><a href="http://www.magrama.gob.es/es/biodiversidad/publicaciones/atlas_aves_invierno_tcm7-291664.pdf"><span style="color: #472e9b;">PDF</span></a><span style="color: black;">)
there is a spot record in the centre of Cáceres. This is based on a
record published in error in </span><span style="color: black;"><i>Ardeola</i></span><span style="color: black;">
and withdrawn shortly afterwards.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">The
Snow Finch is a high montane Palaearctic species. </span></span><span style="color: black;">The
nearest breeding populations are in the Cantabrian Mounatins, the
Pyrenees and the Alps, where they occupy the highest zones, in alpine
pasture or scrub, very close to the snow-line. </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Although
the winter distribution is very similar to the breeding range</b></span><span style="color: black;">,
with a small descent because of snow coverage (about 400 metre
descent in the Picos de Europa), wider movements have recently been
shown for the population in the Alps (Switzerland and Austria) that
have reached the eastern Pyrenees, with displacement of more than
1,000 km. </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">In
Span there are </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>several
records in the mountains of the Mediterranean arc, </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">between</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">Catalonia
and Alicante. As well as on the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES"><b>Balearics</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">.
</span></span><span style="color: black;">There
are also records in the </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Sierra
Nevada and in Portugal</b></span><span style="color: black;"> (four
records, three of them on the coast, including one of Cape St.
Vincent). Almost in Extremadura, there are at least five known
records on the </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Salamanca
slope of the Sistema Central</b></span><span style="color: black;">,
referring to groups of between </span><span style="color: black;"><b>1
and 25 birds</b></span><span style="color: black;"> on
the Sierras of Candelario, Lagunilla and Peña de Francia. The record
posted here extends it presence to west, being perhaps the first in
the Sierra de Gata, and suggests that the Snow Finch. Although
scarce, may occur more often than thought in the Sistema Central.
Determining the origin of this bird is complicated, since although
the breeding area in the Cantabrian Mountains is closest, ringing
data would not rule out either a Pyrenean or even an Alpine origin. </span>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>References: </b><span lang="es-ES"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">-Anuarios
ornitológicos de Salamanca. SEO-Salamanca [</span></span><a href="http://www.azudriolobos.com/activos/texto/azud_noticia_0032_0397.pdf"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span lang="es-ES">PDF</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">].<br />-
Fernández-González, Á. & Fernández-Menéndez, D. 2012.
Gorrión alpino. En Atlas de las aves en invierno en España
2007-201. SEO/BirdLife y Magrama [</span></span><a href="http://www.magrama.gob.es/es/biodiversidad/publicaciones/atlas_aves_invierno_tcm7-291664.pdf"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span lang="es-ES">PDF</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span lang="es-ES">].<br />-
SEO/BirdLife. Base de datos de anillamiento. </span></span><span style="color: black;">Gorrión
alpino [</span><a href="http://www.seguimientodeaves.org/ESPECIOS/docs/ESPECIES/6040_RES_PM.pdf"><span style="color: #472e9b;">PDF</span></a><span style="color: black;">].<br />-
Noticiarios ornitológicos. Ardeola.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2531305029155091465" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="color: black;">Almost
at the very end of 2013, on 30</span><span style="color: black;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: black;">
December, Fergus Crystal had the good fortune to find a </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Lesser
Yellowlegs</b></span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: black;"><i><b>Tringa
flavipes</b></i></span><span style="color: black;"><b>)
at Puebla de Alcollarín (Badajoz)</b></span><span style="color: black;">,
in the district of Vegas Altas, which straddles the provinces of
Cáceres and Badajoz. As we </span><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/lesser-yellowlegs-second-record-for.html">posted
earlier</a><span style="color: black;">,
this was only the second record in Extremadura of this rare American
wader. The first was a bird on autumn passage (08/08/1999, Valdesalor
reservoir, Cáceres). This second bird is particularly interesting
because it is one of the very few confirmed over-wintering records in
the Iberian peninsula. The bird has remained in the same area in
which it was first discovered in December. This winter it seems that
one or two Lesser Yellowlegs have also stayed on in the Algarve
(Portugal). This magnificent photo (above) published by Santiago Avis
serves as a deserved excuse to provide you with an update on this
bird.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It
was first found on </span><span style="color: black;"><b>30th</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>December
2013</b></span><span style="color: black;"> (F.
Crystal), and seen again that same afternoon (Marc Gálvez, José
Guerra, José Gómez Aparicio). On </span><span style="color: black;"><b>7th</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>
January 2014</b></span><span style="color: black;"> it
was relocated by</span><span style="color: black;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: black;">Martin
Kelsey in an adjacent area, where it was seen on </span><span style="color: black;"><b>8th</b></span><span style="color: black;"> (Alberto
Gil) </span><span style="color: black;"><b>and
on 11th</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>
January</b></span><span style="color: black;"> (Juan
Pablo Prieto, Francisco Montaño, Sergio Mayordomo, César Clemente,
Javier Prieta, Eva Palacios, M. Gálvez, J. Guerra, Antonio Calvo,
Pepe Guisado, Pilar Goñi and Neil Reinwick) </span><span style="color: black;"><b>and
then on 10th</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: black;">(M.
Kelsey) </span><span style="color: black;"><b>and
18th</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>
February</b></span><span style="color: black;"> (S.
Avís).</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><i>Translated by Martin Kelsey. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><i>Annotated
list of the most interesting records in Extremadura in January 2014.
Compiled and illustration - Bearded Tit</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>(</i></span><span lang="en-GB">Panurus
biarmicus</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>), by Sergio Mayordomo.
</i></span><i>Translated by Martin Kelsey. Census team for the Vegas
Altas (ECVA): José María Abad, Marcelino Cardalliaguet, Benigno
Cienfuegos, Joaquín Fernández, Manuel Gómez Calzado, Carlos
González, Luis Lozano, José Antonio Masero, Javier Prieta, Juan
Pablo Prieto, Domingo Rivera, Ángel Sánchez, Ángel Luis Sánchez,
Daniel Vicente, Fernando Yuste, Manuel Gómez and F. Borja.</i></div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><b>-
White-fronted Goose</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: Two adults at
Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 05/01 (Javier Prieta) and a juvenile
there on 10/01 (César Clemente and Sergio Mayordomo). One at Los
Canchales reservoir (BA) on 13/01 (Marc Gálvez and José
Guerra).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Egyptian
Goose</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: Two at Marinejo reservoir,
Trujillo (CC), on 05/01 (S. Mayordomo). </span>30 at Sierra Brava
reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 11/01 (Eva Palacios and J. Prieta). <span lang="en-GB">Three
at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 13/01 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra).
</span>Two at Alcollarín (BA) on 25/01 (Antonio Calvo). Five at Arce
de Abajo reservoir, Brozas (CC), on 27/01 (C. Clemente and S.
Mayordomo) and on 29/01 (Manolo Iglesias). 24 at La Serena reservoir
(BA) on 29/01 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra). <span lang="en-GB">38
Cubilar reservoir, Logrosán (CC), on 30/01 (Chris Cook, John
Muddeman, Angela Plumb and Trevor Plumb).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ruddy
Shelduck:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">One
at Holguera (CC) on 10/01 (J. Prieta) and possibly the same bird at
El Batán rice fields (CC) on 13/01 (S. Mayordomo) and 19/01 (C.
Clemente and S. Mayordomo).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Shelduck:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Four
at Puebla de Alcollarín (BA) on 08/01 (Alberto Gil). One at
Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 10/01 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo).
</span>Three at Gargáligas reservoir, Puebla de Alcocer (BA), on
11/01 (C. Clemente, M. Gálvez and J. Guerra). 16 at Sierra Brava
reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 11/01 (E. Palacios and J. Prieta). <span lang="en-GB">Two
at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 13/01 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra)
and six on 24/01 (Elvira del Viejo). </span>Six at Palancoso lagoon,
Navalmoral de la Mata (CC), on 23/01 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo).
Three at El Torviscal (BA) on 23/01 (Juan Pablo Prieto). <span lang="en-GB">One
at La Serena reservoir (BA) on 29/01 (M. Gálvez and J.
Guerra).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Red-crested
Pochard:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Six
at large lagoon at La Albuera (BA) on 11/01 (Juan Carlos Paniagua)
and seven on 25/01 (Paco Mendoza and J. C. Paniagua). At least five
at Alange reservoir (BA) on 14/01 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra). Five at
Tentudía reservoir, Calera de León (BA), on 18/01 (Alberto
Pacheco). Eight at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 24/01 (E. del
Viejo). 10 at Orellana reservoir (BA) on 28/01 (M. Gálvez and J.
Guerra).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ferruginous
Duck:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Five
at Los Calles pool, Toril (CC), on 05/01 (J. Prieta) and three there
on 12/01 (E. Palacios).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Quail:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">At
least eight at Taliga (BA) on 26/01 (Ángel T. Mejías).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Great
Crested Grebe:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">More
than 500 at Alange reservoir (BA) on 14/01 (M. Gálvez and J.
Guerra).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Black-necked
Grebe:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">One
at Sierra Brava reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 05/01 (S. Mayordomo) and
on 09/01 (Martin Kelsey); and three on 11/01 (SEO-Extremadura). One
at Brozas pool (CC) on 27/01 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo). 60 at
Orellana reservoir (BA) on 28/01 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra). Five at
La Serena reservoir (BA) on 29/01 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Great
Bittern:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-GB">One
at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 17/01 (José Gómez Aparicio), on
18/01 (Javier Briz) and on 19/01 (J. Briz and J. Guerra).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Squacco
Heron:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Two
on Guadiana River in Badajoz on 12/01 (J. C. Paniagua) and one on
16/01 (J. Guerra). One at Rena (BA) on 21/01 (Luis Lozano). One at
Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 25/01 (S. Mayordomo) and on 26/01 (C.
Cook, J. Muddeman, A. Plumb, T. Plumb and Santiago Villa). One at
Sierra de Fuentes pools (CC) on 26/01, where present for some of
winter (Estela Herguido).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Black
Stork:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Four
at Campillo de Llerena reservoir (BA) on 05/01 (Paco Macías). Two at
Moheda Alta, Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 09/01 (M. Kelsey) and three
on 30/01 (C. Cook, J. Muddeman, A. Plumb and T. Plumb). </span>One at
Valuengo reservoir, Jerez de los Caballeros (BA), on 10/01 (Vanessa
de Alba and Antonio Núñez). Two on Ardila River (BA) on 11/01 (E.
del Viejo). Two on Fresnedillas pool, Oliva de Plasencia (CC), on
12/01 (José María Herranz). One at Brovales reservoir, Jerez de los
Caballeros (BA), on 13/01 (Francisco Montaño, A. Núñez and Joaquín
Vázquez). Three at Navalvillar de Pela (BA) on 21/01 (Manuel Gómez
Calzado). One at Monfragüe (CC) on 22/01 (Rubén Serradilla). One at
Campo Lugar (CC) on 26/01 (Antonio Calvo and J. P. Prieto). One at
Llanos de Brozas (CC) on 27/01 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo). One at
Puerto Peña, Talarrubias (BA), on 31/01 (M. Gálvez and J.
Guerra).<br />- <b>Glossy Ibis:</b> One at Hitos de Abajo,
Campo Lugar (CC), on 01/01 (A. Calvo). One at Riolobos rice fields
(CC) on 10/01 (J. Prieta). One at pool at Lugar de Malpartida de
Cáceres (CC) on 12/01 (Francisco Javier Caballero) and on 16/01 (M.
Iglesias). <span lang="en-GB">Four at El Torviscal (BA) on 23/01 (J.
P. Prieto).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Spoonbill:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">12
at Los Canchales reservoir (CC) on 11/01 (E. Costillo) and 17 on
13/01 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra). Two at Galisteo (CC) on 13/01 (S.
Mayordomo). One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 14/01 (M. Gálvez and J.
Guerra). Two at Moral reservoir, Los Santos de Maimona (BA), on 17/01
(V. de Alba, F. Montaño and A. Núñez).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Black
Kite:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Four
at Villanueva de la Serena landfill (BA) on 05/01 and three on 12/01
(Chema Traverso). </span>One at Santa Amalia (BA) on 16/01 (Antonio
M. Mendoza). One at Navalvillar de Pela (BA) on 21/01 (Juan Antonio
Barquero).<br />- <b>Egyptian Vulture:</b><b> </b>An adult at
Torrecillas de la Tiesa (CC) on 10/01 (Alfredo Ortega). Two at
Torrejoncillo (CC) on 19/01 (S. Mayordomo). One at Canchos de Ramiro,
Cachorrilla (CC), and two at Acehúche (CC) on 23/01 (J. M. Moreras,
P. Rodríguez and Ángel Sánchez). <span lang="en-GB">One at Salto
del Gitano, Monfragüe (CC), on 30/01 (M. Kelsey and Neil
Renwick).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Goshawk:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">One
at Gévora River, Alburquerque (BA), on 11/01 (Godfried Schreur and
Pedro Schreur). </span>One at Oliva de Mérida (BA) on 15/01 (J.
Guerra). One at Alcántara reservoir (CC) on 24/01 (S. Mayordomo). <span lang="en-GB">A
female at Montehermoso (CC) on 26/01 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo).
</span>A female at Las Mestas (CC) on 26/01 (A. Pacheco). One at
Brozas (CC) on 27/01 (M. Iglesias).<br />- <b>Booted Eagle:</b><b> </b>A
pale morph at River Gévora, Badajoz, on 01/01 (José Antonio Molina,
Mª Rocío Molina, Sabas Molina F. and Sabas Molina R.). A dark morph
at El Almendral (BA) on 06/01 (Juan Carlos Delgado). <span lang="en-GB">One
at Guadiana River, Badajoz, on 31/01 (Jesús Sánchez).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Osprey:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">One
at Gabriel y Galán reservoir (CC) on 08/01 (A. Pacheco). One at Los
Canchales reservoir (BA) on 13/01 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra) and on
24/01 (E. del Viejo). One at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 25/01 (C.
Clemente and S. Mayordomo).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Common
Crane:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">63,205
in the central zone (BA/CC) on 24/01 (M. Gómez Calzado and José
Antonio Román).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Black-winged
Stilt:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-GB">1,649
in the Vegas Altas (BA/CC) on 21/01 (ECVA).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Avocet:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Six
at Hitos de Abajo, Campo Lugar (CC), on 01/01 (A. Calvo) and 23 on
05/01 (M. Gálvez, J. Guerra and S. Mayordomo). Three at Puebla de
Alcollarín (BA) on 08/01 (A. Gil) and on 12/01 (Lorenzo Alcántara).
One at Medellín (BA) on 21/01 (F. Yuste).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Kentish
Plover:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Three
at Hitos de Abajo, Campo Lugar (CC), on 01/01 (A. Calvo). Four at
Puebla de Alcollarín (BA) on 01/01 (A. Calvo) and on 08/01 (A. Gil),
22 on 09/01 (J. P. Prieto), 8 on 11/01 (SEO-Extremadura), 24 on 12/01
(L. Alcántara) and 34 on 21/01 (Marcelino Cardalliaguet and J. P.
Prieto). Three at Santa Amalia (BA) on 11/01 (F. Montaño and Gema
Montaño), 41 on 21/01 (J. Prieta) and three on 30/01 (A. M.
Mendoza).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Dotterel:</b></span><span lang="en-GB">
Seven at </span><span lang="en-GB">Hinojal (CC) on 12/01 (E.
Palacios) and six on 24/01 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo), on 27/01
(C. Cook, J. Muddeman, A. Plumb and T. Plumb) and on 31/01 (M.
Kelsey). At La Serena (BA): 2 at Cabeza del Buey, 3 at Castuera and
18 on the cañada real Segoviana on 24/01 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra),
the latter group remaining at least until 25/01 (E. del Viejo). One
at Granja de Torrehermosa (BA) on 26/01 (Miguel Corvillo).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Grey
Plover:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Two
at Logrosán (CC) on 12/01 (Noelia Baeza and Jorge Ángel
Herrera).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Little
Stint:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-GB">446
in the Vegas Altas (BA/CC) on 21/01 (ECVA).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Temminck’s
Stint:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">One
at Puebla de Alcollarín (BA) on 21/01 (M. Cardalliaguet and J. P.
Prieto).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Dunlin:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">4,217
on the Vegas Altas (BA/CC) on 21/01 (ECVA).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ruff:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">572
on the Vegas Altas (BA/CC) on 21/01 (ECVA).</span></div>
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Curlew:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">One
at Palazuelo (BA) on 02/01 (A. Calvo). Two at Puebla de Alcollarín
(BA) on 07/01 (M. Kelsey), four on 08/01 (A. Gil), 19 on 09/01 (J. P.
Prieto), 9 on 11/01 (J. Guerra and S. Mayordomo) and 15 on 21/01 (M.
Cardalliaguet and J. P. Prieto). Three at Santa Amalia (BA) on 11/01
(F. Montaño and G. Montaño). </span>Three at Hernán Cortes (BA)
(J. Prieta) and three at Villanueva de la Serena (BA) (Carlos
González) on 21/01. <span lang="en-GB">Two at Hitos de Abajo, Campo
Lugar (CC), on 28/01 (C. Cook, J. Muddeman, A. Plumb and T.
Plumb).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Lesser
Yellowlegs:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-GB">One
at Puebla de Alcollarín (BA) on 07/01 (M. Kelsey), on 08/01 (A.
Gil), on 09/01 (Jesús Porras and Rufino) and on 11/01
(SEO-Extremadura).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Wood
Sandpiper:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Six
at Puebla de Alcollarín (BA) on 01/01 (A, Calvo). </span>Five at
Rena (BA) on 21/01 (L. Lozano). <span lang="en-GB">Two at El
Torviscal (BA) on 23/01 (J. P. Prieto).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mediterranean
Gull:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-GB">One
at Villanueva de la Serena (BA) on 21/01 (C.
González).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Yellow-legged
Gull:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">Two
at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 10/01 (C. Clemente and S.
Mayordomo). Three at Villar de Rena (BA) on 21/01 (Ángel
Sánchez).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Little
Gull:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">A
juvenile at Orellana reservoir (BA) on 28/01 (M. Gálvez and J.
Guerra) and on 30/01 (C. Cook, J. Muddeman, A. Plumb and T. Plumb).
An adult at Navalvillar de Pela (BA) on 30/01 (C. Cook, J. Muddeman,
A. Plumb and T. Plumb).<br />-</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Caspian
Tern:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">One
at Alqueva reservoir, Villarreal (BA), on 16/01 (Joaquín Mazón).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>-White-winged
Black Tern:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">One
at Orellana Reservoir (BA) on 09/01, on16/01 (William Haworth) and on
28/01 (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Stock
Dove:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Two
at El Sotillo reservoir, Monroy (CC), on 12/01 (E. Palacios). Six on
rice fields at Riolobos (CC) on 13/01 (S. Mayordomo). Four at
Galisteo (CC) on 26/01 (J. Prieta).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Tawny
Owl:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">A
fledged chick at the university campus at Badajoz on 13/01 (E.
Costillo).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Short-eared
Owl:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">One
at Hernán Cortés (BA) on 21/01 (J. M. Abad and J. A. Masero). One
at Valdehornillos (BA) on 23/01 (J. A. Román).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Pallid
Swift</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">:
At least one at Alange (BA) on 09/01 (Jesús Solana) and on 14/01 (J.
Guerra).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Hoopoe:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">A
leucistic individual between Yelbes and Valdetorres (BA) on 29/01 (J.
A. Román).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Wryneck:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
One at</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
Matachel River, Alange (BA) on 09/01 (J. Guerra). One in pinewood at
Garrovillas (CC) on 12/01 (S. Mayordomo). One at Cedillo (CC) on
18/01 (G. Schreur and P. Schreur). </span></span><span style="color: black;">One
at Malpartida de Plasencia (CC) on 18/01 (S. Mayordomo). One at La
Parra (BA) on 18/01 (V. de Alba and A. Núñez). One at
Valdecigüeñas, Puebla del Maestre (BA), on 23/01 (M. Gálvez).
</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Three
at El Batán (CC) on 24/01 (Ricardo Montero, Jenny Torfs and Michel
Viskens).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Pied
Wagtail:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">One
at Riolobos rice fields (CC) on 13/01 (S. Mayordomo). One at Cedillo
(CC) on 18/01 (G. Schreur and P. Schreur). One at Brozas pool (CC) on
27/01 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Moustached
Warbler:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">One
at Puebla de Alcollarín (BA) on 08/01 (A. Gil). One at Budión
stream, Rena (BA), on 21/01 (L. Lozano).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Goldcrest:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Two
at Granadilla pines (CC) on 20/01 (S. Mayordomo).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Bearded
Tit:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">A
male at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 25/01 (S.
Mayordomo).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Brambling:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">A
male in Gata valley (CC) on 26/01 (S. Mayordomo).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Common
Crossbill:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Seven
at Riomalo de Arriba (CC) on 08/01 (S. Mayordomo). </span></span><span style="color: black;">Several
at Ladrillar (CC) on 21/01 (A. Pacheco).</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>FIRST
SPRING MIGRANTS</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Lesser
Kestrel:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Two
at Almendralejo (BA) on 29/01 (J. A. Román).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Great
Spotted Cuckoo:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Two
at Santa Marta de Magasca (CC) on 11/01 (M. Kelsey). Two at
Villamesías (CC) on 25/01 (A. Calvo).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Barn
Swallow:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
Four at</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
Alange (BA) on 04/01 (P. Macías) and one on 14/01 (M. Gálvez and J.
Guerra). One in Trujillo (CC) on 14/01 (N. Renwick).<br />-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>House
Martin:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">One
in Mérida (BA) on 03/01, three on 05/01 (J. Solana) and two on 09/01
(A. Calvo). Three at La Codosera (BA) (P. Schreur) and present at
Villanueva de la Serena (BA) (J. P. Prieto) on 09/01. Present in
Alange (BA) throughout the whole month (M. Gálvez and J. Guerra).</span></span></div>
Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-10141360283671464952014-02-05T13:32:00.000+01:002014-04-23T00:23:48.788+02:00SURPRISING TALES OF TRAVELLING BIRDS<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); widows: 2; orphans: 2; }p.western { font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }p.cjk { font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }p.ctl { font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }a:visited { color: rgb(128, 0, 128); }a.western:visited { }a.cjk:visited { }a.ctl:visited { }a:link { color: rgb(0, 0, 255); }</style><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pintail
(</span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anas acuta</i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">). Female 2º year. Carrying a pale blue nasal band
[12]. It was marked in the Gargáligas reservoir (Badajoz) on 11th
December 2012 and was seen in northern France on its first spring
migration (2nd March 2013) and at Galisteo (Cáceres) eon
its second autumn journey (25th September 2013, photo). Most of the
Pintail that winter in Spain originate from northern Russia.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>During
2013</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><a class="western" href="http://www.seo.org/2013/07/03/seobirdlife-reune-60-anos-de-anillamiento-cientifico-en-espana-en-una-herramienta-web/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>SEO/BirdLife
brought its vast </b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><span lang="en-GB"><b>databank
from ringing up to date</b></span></u></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">(more
than seven million birds ringed and about 400,000 recoveries). With
this information now updated, members of the public can now access it
through a new app</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a class="western" href="http://www.anillamientoseo.org/"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>www.anillamientoseo.org</b></span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> through
which one can consult the information, which is updated every day.
Furthermore, it allows one to enter recoveries as well as requesting
data on ringing and recoveries for scientific study.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">In
2013 </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">SEO/BirdLife
took over the tracking management from ICONA, which had been
responsible for the scientific ringing of wild birds, following a
pause of two years, because of lack of funding from the Ministry of
the Environment. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>During
2013 59,500 data were handled</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">,
that is to say 59,500 tales of travelling birds. Amongst them, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>we
would like to highlight two related to Extremadura</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.
Sadly, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>in
both cases, the information came from birds killed by hunters</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.
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The
first, a Pintail <b>(</b><i><b>Anas acuta)</b></i> was ringed by
the University of Extremadura in <b>Badajoz province in 2009</b> and
recovered in June 2013 in Archangel (in the north of European
Russia) <b>a distance of 4,243 km</b>. It represented the <b>longest
distance recovery from </b><b>Extremadura</b><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong>in
2013 and the second longest from Spain. </strong>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
second, a Song Thrush</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
(</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Turdus
philomelos</b></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>)
was ringed as a nestling in Estonia</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> (in
Toolse, Laane-Virumaa) on 20th</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-GB"></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
June 2013 and recovered on 17th</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-GB"></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
November the same year in </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Olivenza
(Badajoz) after 3,307 kms from its place of origin</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> and
168 days afterwards. This was the second longest journey recorded in
2013. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">TRANSLATED BY MARTIN KELSEY</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">From
the beginning</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
of this</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
blog, since May 2010</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">,
the only section that has remained unchanged has been the monthly
summaries of the most interesting sightings of birds in Extremadura.
</span></span><span style="color: black;">This
</span><span style="color: black;"><b>compilation</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>
of records </b></span><span style="color: black;">did
not arise from the blog, rather it had been taking place from much
earlier, indeed </span><span style="color: black;"><b>since
the mid 1990s</b></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">The
purpose was to publish them in a book, an annual report called “Aves
de Extremadura”. Up to now, four reports have been published,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a class="western" href="https://sites.google.com/site/glseocaceres/"><span lang="en-GB">covering
the period 1998 to 2008</span></a></u></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.
Given that the information flow is, thanks to new technology, much
greater now than in those first years, it is also much easier to
disseminate it, so that </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>these
monthly summaries have become the priority</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">,
appearing each month, regularly and on time. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>All
of this is possible thanks to the enormous efforts of</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Sergio
Mayordomo</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">,
who has been compiling all of the observations that meet certain
criteria for each species (see </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a class="western" href="https://sites.google.com/site/glseocaceres/"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;">vol
IV de Aves de Extremadura</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">).
Given the large number of records, not all necessarily appear in the
summaries; although as many as possible do. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="en-GB">To
the end of 2013, some graphs have been prepared to </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>show
the amount of information that has been received to date</b></span><span lang="en-GB">
(taking into account all data received, not just that given in the
summaries). </span><span lang="en-GB">There
are more than 10,000 records between May 2010 and December 2013, that
together with the information gathered between 1998 and 2008 in the
reports, provide the </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>biggest
database on birds in Extremadura</b></span><span lang="en-GB">.
</span>The <b>main
source is the Goce Forum</b>.
There are also records
submitted directly. <span lang="en-GB">The
information shown in the graphs is so clear that it barely requires
comment. From the first year, people have been encouraged to submit
records and there is now an average of </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>3,200
annual records</b></span><span lang="en-GB">.
By month, the pattern is the same as bird activity, with maxima
coinciding with migration peaks in April and September/October (there
is great interest in phenological patterns) and lowest at the start
of summer in June and July, when there is less bird movement and
people may spend less time in the field because of the heat. </span>
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As
well as providing information of use for our birding and for those
visiting Extremadura, <b>a lot of this information has been made
available also for particular studies of species and sites</b>, when
required. Always we have in mind the understanding that we can only
conserve what we know! Of course, this database has only been
possible thanks to the <b>incalculable collaboration of hundreds of
birders</b> who pass on their records. <b>A thousand thanks to you
all!!</b></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Despite
being a very attractive species for birdwatchers, the unusual and
isolated Iberian population of </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Black
Stork</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>(</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Ciconia
nigra</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>)</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB">continues
to be poorly known. Indeed, the </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>only
national census carried out in Spain</b></span><span lang="en-GB">
took place way back in </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>1987</b></span><span lang="en-GB">.
Since then, there have only been some compilations of information
from varied sources. From these early estimates, the population in
Extremadura (161-219 pairs over the period 1995-2013) has always been
the largest. Portugal follows, with between 97-115 pairs in a
national census carried out in 2004, and Andalucía, with 87 pairs in
2009, all of them in the Sierra Morena. </span>With pre-2003 figures,
we have Castilla y León (61 pairs), Castilla-La Mancha (24) and
Madrid (12). <span lang="en-GB">Adding this all together, admittedly
over a long time frame, produces</span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>470
pairs for certain in the Iberian Peninsular, although it is likely
that the real figure exceeds, probably by a margin, 500 pairs. </b></span><span lang="en-GB">If
one takes into account published data, the Iberian population has
apparently increased </span><span lang="en-GB">(Cano y Hernández,
2003, cited 405 certain pairs). If there had been a better coverage,
it is probably wiser to </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>consider the
population as stable</b></span><span lang="en-GB">. For example, in
the case of Andalucía, where a figure of 54 pairs (2006) and 52
pairs (1999, 2005, 2007) rose to 89 pairs (2009), an increase of no
less than 70% in two years, which seems improbable under natural
circumstances. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Focusing
on the population in Extremadura, the graph below shows the values
obtained in </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>17
regional censuses</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">that
we have been able to compile. Two phases can be seen, the first
between 1973 and 1989, when ornithology in Extremadura was in its
infancy and the data are partial, mainly anecdotal. And the second
phase from 1993m the government of Extremadura started annual counts.
The studies undertaken by Adenex (José Luis Pérez-Chiscano, Víctor
Pizarro, José A. Román, Juan J. Ferrero and others) have also
helped. The information of these last twenty years shows a </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>stable
trend, with peaks and troughs most likely because of differences in
effort and coverage</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
(there are variations of up to 21% between consecutive years). The
maximum figure was </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>219
pairs in 1995</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">,
followed by 195 pairs in 2011. In</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>2013,
the census recently </b></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a class="western" href="http://extremambiente.gobex.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3567:noticia-1412014-la-poblacion-de-cigueena-negra-en-extrema"><span lang="en-GB"><b>made public </b></span></a></u></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>reached
189 certain pairs</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">,
30 less than the maximum twenty years ago. By province,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>116
pairs were found in Cáceres and 73 in Badajoz</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">(in
2003 there were 101 and 82, respectively). Taking into account that
censuses almost always underestimate real populations,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>it
us very likely that there are more than 200 pairs in Extremadura,
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even 220</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>.</b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><b>The
map shows the breeding distribution of Black Stork in Extremadura.
The areas of highest breeding density are shown in red: </b></span><span lang="en-GB">the
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>dehesas
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">of
south-west Badajoz, Monfragüe, Alagón, the Tiétar pinewoods and
areas in along the Tajo and Guadiana rivers. This area of occupation
remains practically the same since the first censuses, being centred
along the Tajo river and its tributaries, and in some areas of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>dehesa</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and mountains.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">With
respect to</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>
breeding</b></span><span lang="en-GB">,
we have information from 2002 and 2013. </span><b>In
2013, 147 nests were monitored, from which 290 young fledged. </b><span lang="en-GB">The
reproductive indices are very similar in both years:</span></div>
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<b>productivity (fledged young
per occupied nest): 1.97 in 2013, 2.05 in 2002</b>.</div>
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fledging success (fledged young
per successful nest): 2.45 in 2013 and 2002.</div>
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Percentage of pairs which raise young successfully:
82% en 2013.</div>
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These
figures for Extremadura are very similar to the average for <b>Spain
as whole</b> <b>(1.94)</b><b> </b>and
elsewhere in Europe (1.81 in Latvia, 1.96 in Lithuania) (Cano, 2012).</div>
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An
interesting aspect of
the Iberian population of Black Stork is the high proportion of nests
built on rock. The Black Stork normally nests in trees across its
wide range across Europe, although there are countries where use of
rocky sites is significant (Austria
28%, Bulgaria 52%). The distant population in southern Africa nests
exclusively on rock and the isolated Iberian population has a figure
of 55%, with 75% in the case of Portugal. For<b>
Extremadura detailed information of nest substrate use is given for
the years 2003 and 2013 (table).</b> <b>Nests
on rock reach 55%</b>, the same
as the Iberian population as a whole, with somewhat more use of this
substrate in 2003 than in 2013. It is noteworthy that whilst the
population, distribution and breeding success has remained stable
over the last decade, <b>there
are important changes in best sites</b>.
There has been a <b>drop in the
number of nests in cork oak by a third</b>,
compensated by an <b>increase
in tree nests in general</b>,
especially in holm oak and pine. With respect to rock sites, there
has been an <b>increase in use
of rocky valleys</b>, now the
habitat most often used, with a decrease in sites in mountain ranges.</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">These
changes in nest sites deserve a more detailed analysis to determine
the conservation impact of the Black Stork as well as the Cork Oaks
themselves (are there fewer Cork Oaks of sufficient size? </span>Has
their management changed? Is there more disturbance?). <span lang="en-GB"><b>Over
the last decade there at least has been more information on the
conservation of Black Stork. </b></span><span lang="en-GB">Some of
us remember</span><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-GB">that
in 2003, at a regional congress, Pizarro </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>et
al</i></span><span lang="en-GB">. cited seven nests that were
destroyed by fire that year (three in the dehesas of Jerez, two in
the Tiétar pines, one in Cañaveral and one in Sierra de San Pedro)
or how the construction of the Alqueva dam apparently caused the loss
of ten active nests; also they stated that half the nests in cork oak
suffered disturbance during the cork harvest and during pruning; and
how sensitive nests were to boat traffic on rivers, indeed that there
were no nests on navigable stretches. And not forgetting the damage
caused by changing water levels on reservoirs, with 23 nests and 25
chicks lost in 1994. </span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Acknowledgements:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
This post is based on information published in the sources cited
below. The 2013 data come from a press release from </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a class="western" href="http://extremambiente.gobex.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3567:noticia-1412014-la-poblacion-de-cigueena-negra-en-extremadura-alcanza-maximos-historicos-con-189-parejas-registradas&catid=38:noticias&Itemid=23"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
DGMA-Junta de Extremadura</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">,
apart from the nest site data which have been provided Ángel
Sánchez/DGMA (in litt.). The censuses in Extremadura are carried out
every year by some 250 rangers and other staff of the Environment
Directorate. We also would like to extend our thanks to personnel in
Portugal and other parts of Spain, as well as to other fieldworkers
and volunteers who have collaborated.</span></span></div>
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<b>References:</b></div>
<ul>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Anuarios
Ornitológicos de Extremadura. 1998-2008.</div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Informes
de Medio Ambiente en Extremadura. 2006-2012.</div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Censos
oficiales de la CMA-Junta de Andalucía.</div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Cano,
L. S. 2012.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Biología
y conservación de la cigüeña negra en la península Ibérica</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.
Tesis Doctoral. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Cano,
L. S. y Hernández, J. M. 2003. Cigüeña negra</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ciconia
nigra.</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">En
Martí, R, y del Moral, J.C. (Eds.).</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Atlas
de las aves reproductoras de España</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.
MMA y SEO/BirdLife. Madrid.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
DGMA.
2004. The black stork in Extremadura, Southwest Spain. IV
Conferencia Internacional de cigüeña negra. Dávod-Püspökpuszta.
Hungría. Abril 2004.</div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Ferrero,
J.J. y Pizarro, V. M. 2003.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>La
cigüeña negra en Extremadura.</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Cuadernos
Populares 61. Consejería de Cultura. Junta de Extremadura. Mérida.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Pizarro,
V. M., Fererro, J. J. y Gil, A. 2003. Conservación de la cigüeña
negra en Extremadura. II Congreso de especies protegidas de
Extremadura. 19-21 noviembre 2003. Cáceres. DGMA. Junta de
Extremadura.</div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">TRANSLATED BY MARTIN KELSEY</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">After
the successful experience of last</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
winter</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
2012/2013 (</b></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/more-than-one-hundred-thousand-cranes.html"><span lang="en-GB"><b>see
link</b></span></a></u></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>)
</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">the
Extremaduran crane enthusiasts have started a new census programme
for the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>2013/2014
season</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Indeed,
this time round, they have succeeded in promoting a </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>national
crane census</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">,
which took place in </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>December
2013</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">,
the results of which have not yet been fully compiled. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>As
a starter, </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">we
can provide briefly the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>figures
for Extremadura</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.
The second regional census results from 23-27 January are still
pending, which will give us an overall more complete picture. Once
the data are ready, we will publish a more detailed posting about the
wintering crane population in Extremadura in 2013/2014. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;">Each
cenus brings </span><span style="color: black;"><b>new record figures</b></span><span style="color: black;">
for this species. </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">The
final result for December 2013 was </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>128,
820 cranes counted, 29,515 in the provincia de Cáceres-Tajo
basin, 82,532 in the Central Zone</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://grullasveo.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/82197.html"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(see
link)</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>and
16,773 in the rest of Badajoz province</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.
It is worth noting that within the Cáceres province census figures
there are three roosts with about 7,500 birds that lie inside the
territory of Toledo. In the national survey results, they will be
treated as such, but given that these counts are undertaken in a
coordinated way by observers from Cáceres, at the regional scale
they are considered as part of the Extremadura total (as has been the
case previously). </span></span><span style="color: black;">Indeed, cranes
have no borders. </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Compared
with the previous census of December 2012</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">,
using the same methodology and similar effort,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the
result is 29,000 more cranes</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.
In the Tajo basin of Cáceres the population has risen by 8,000
birds, despite the Brozas sector (with 1,500 more cranes) only
getting partially surveyed, in the Central Zone there were some
20,000 more, and in Badajoz province about a thousand more cranes.</span></span></div>
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<i>Annotated
list of the most interesting records in Extremadura in October 2013.
Compiled and illustration (Bar-headed Goose</i> (Anser indicus)
<i>by Sergio Mayordomo. Translated by Martin Kelsey</i></div>
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<br />
TRANSLATED BY MARTIN KELSEY<br />
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<b>-
White-fronted Goose</b>: One at <span style="color: black;">Los Canchales
reservoir (BA) on 07/12, 08/12 (Antonia Cangas) and 30/12 (Rosa
Cano).</span></div>
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<b>-
Egyptian Goose</b>: One at Morante reservoir, Badajoz, on 19/12
(Pablo Herrador).</div>
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<b>Ruddy Shelduck</b>: Two at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 01/12
(Javier Briz and Vicente Risco). Twp at Sierra Brava reservoir,
Zorita (CC), (César Clemente, Martin Kelsey and Sergio Mayordomo)
and another at Galisteo rice fields and later at El Batán (CC)
(Javier Prieta -photo- and Luis Miguel Parejo) on 15/12.</div>
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</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Common Shelduck</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Ahigal reservoir (CC) on 03/12 (Alberto Pacheco). Two at
Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 08/12 (J. Briz and V. Risco). One at
Sierra Brava reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 08/12 (M. Kelsey) and three
present on 15/12 (C. Clemente, M. Kelsey and S. Mayordomo). </span>A
pair at Villalba de los Barros reservoir (BA) on 13/02 (José Antonio
Leal). One at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 14/12 (Antonio Núñez,
Jesús Solana and Vanessa de Alba). Two at Tozo reservoir,
Torrecillas de la Tiesa (CC), on 17/12 (M. Kelsey).</div>
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</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Red-crested Pochard</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
Two males at Sierra Brava reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 08/12 (M.
Kelsey) and a male and two females there on 15/12 (C. Clemente, M.
Kelsey and S. Mayordomo). </span>A female at La Atalaya gravel pits,
Aldea del Cano (CC), on 15/12 (J. Solana). <span lang="en-GB">More
than ten amongst 106 other duck on Orellana reservoir (BA) on 20/12
(Juan Antonio Barquero).</span></div>
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<b>Ferruginous Duck</b>: 10 on the Los Calles pools, Toril (CC), on
09/12 (Antolín Redondo and Javier G. Labrador). Three on the La
Atalaya gravel pits, Aldea del Cano (CC) on 15/12 (J. Solana).</div>
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- <b>Black-necked
Grebe</b>: Two at Sierra Brava reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 15/12 (C.
Clemente and S. Mayordomo).</div>
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</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Squacco Heron</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 09/12 (A. Redondo and J. G.
Labrador). Two at Puente Viejo, Badajoz, on 15/12 (Juan Carlos
Paniagua -photo, with Little Bittern-) and one there on 27/12 (José
Guerra). </span>One at Brovales reservoir, Jerez de los Caballeros
(BA), on 17/12 and on 23/12 (Francisco Montaño). One at Quebrada de
las Palomeras reservoir, Navalmoral de la Mata (CC), on 22/12 (J.
Briz and V. Risco).</div>
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</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Black Stork</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
Five at Fresnedillas, Oliva de Plasencia (CC), on 13/12 (Jesús
Montero), three on 15/12 (L. M. Parejo) and one there on 22/12 (Chema
Diu). This individual was ringed in the Czech Republic as a nestling
(W[61JJ]) and regularly winters at this site. One at Brovales
reservoir, Jerez de los Caballeros (BA), on 17/12 (F. Montaño). </span>One
at Valuebo reservoir (BA), on 29/12 (Adolfo García).</div>
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<b>Glossy Ibis</b>: Six at Santa Amalia (BA) on 02/12 (José Antonio
Román) and four on 09/12 (Juan Pablo Prieto and Rafael Serra). Two
at Yelbes (BA) on 18/12 (Fernando Yuste). Three at Madrigalejo (CC)
on 20/12 (Jesús Porras). 13 at Toconal, Don Benito (BA), on 20/12
(J. A. Leal). One at the Lugar pool, Malpartida de Cáceres (CC), on
23/12 (Manuel Iglesias). One at El Batán rice fields (CC) on 28/12
(S. Mayordomo).</div>
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</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Spoonbill</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Valhondo stream, Cáceres on 08/12 (Pablo Ramiro). 14 at Los
Canchales reservoir (BA) on 09/12 (Toribio Álvarez), three there on
14/12 (A. Núñez, J. Solana and V. de Alba), 18 on 16/12 (J. A.
Román), six on 20/12 (Francisco Lopo) and 37 there on 21/12 (Elvira
del Viejo, F. Lopo and Losé Luis Bautista). </span>One at Vega del
Haza, Malpartida de Plasencia (CC), on 09/12 (Raúl Sancho) and on
22/12 (Eva Palacios, Francis Martín and Miguel Ángel Muñoz). One
at Villalba de los Barros (BA) on 12/12 (Hugo Gómez-Tejedor). <span lang="en-GB">Six
in flight over Azud del Guadiana, Badajoz, on 15/12 (SEO-Badajoz). 14
at the Pizarrilla pool, Villanueva del Fresno (BA), on 15/12 and
three there on 16/12 (Alfonso Pérez del Barco -photo; This birds was
seen at Los Canchales on 21/12-). One at Tozo reservoir, Torrecillas
de la Tiesa (CC), on 14/12 (J. Porras) and on 17/12 (M. Kelsey). </span>One
at Sierra Brava reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 19/12 (J. Porras). One at
Portaje reservoir (CC) on 20/12 (Raúl Granados). <span lang="en-GB">Nine
at Morante reservoir, Badajoz, on 20/12 (J. L. Bautista) and 20 there
on 22/12 (T. Álvarez). </span>One between La Nava de Santiago and
Aljucén (BA) on 22/12 (F. Lopo). One at Brovales reservoir, Jerez de
los Caballeros (BA), on 23/12 (F. Montaño).</div>
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<b>Greater Flamingo</b>: A juvenile at Santa Amalia (BA) on 06/12 (J.
P. Prieto and R. Serra).</div>
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<b>Black Kite</b>: One at Guadiana del Caudillo (BA) on 22/12 (P.
Herrador).</div>
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</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Egyptian Vulture</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
Four at Portaje (CC) on 07/12 (Manuela Rodríguez). </span>One at La
Roca de la Sierra (BA) on 09/12 (T. Álvarez).</div>
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<b>Goshawk</b>: One at Palacio Quemado, Alange (BA), on 02/12 (J. A.
Román).</div>
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<b>Osprey</b>: One at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 07/12, 08/12
(A. Cangas) and 09/12 (T. Álvarez). One at Rivera de Fresnedosa,
between Ceclavín and Acehúche (CC), on 07/12 (M. Rodríguez).</div>
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<b>Common Crane</b>: 82,197 in the Central Zone Zona Centro (BA/CC)
on 20/12 (Emilio Peña, F. Yuste, Francisco Borja Maldonado, José
Ángel Sánchez, J. A. Román, J. P. Prieto and Manuel Gómez
Calzado).</div>
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<b>Avocet</b>: Five on rice fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo
Lugar (CC) on 06/12 (J. P. Prieto and R. Serra), eight there on 15/12
(C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo) and 25 on 21/12 (Antonio Calvo).</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">-</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Kentish
Plover</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">:
On the rice fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo Lugar (CC), one
on 01/12 (A. Núñez), 12 on 06/12 (J. P. Prieto and R. Serra) and
seven on 15/12 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo). </span></span><span style="color: black;">11
at Santa Amalia (BA) on 06/12 (J. P. Prieto y R. Serra). Three at
Guadiana del Caudillo (BA) on 22/12 (P. Herrador).</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><b>-
Dotterel: </b></span><span lang="en-GB">Five at Castuera (BA) on
06/12 (J. Guerra) and right there on 08/12 (William Haworth -photo-).
Six remaining at Hinojal (CC) on 10/12 (J. Porras) and on 20/12 (C.
Clemente, J. Porras and S. Mayordomo). </span>11 at Cabeza del Buey
(BA) on 11/12 (J. Guerra and Marc Gálvez).</div>
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</b><b>Curlew Sandpiper</b>: One at Guadiana del Caudillo (BA) on
22/12 (P. Herrador).</div>
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</b><b>Jack Snipe</b>: Two on Guadalupejo river, Alía (CC), on 03/12
(Jorge Ángel Herrera and Noelia Baeza). One at El Batán (CC) on
06/12 (S. Mayordomo) and another there on 09/12 (J. Prieta).</div>
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</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Woodcock</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Guadalupejo river, Alía (CC), on 04/12 (Jaime Cerezo, J. Á.
Herrera and N. Baeza). </span>Two at Parque Natural de Cornalvo (BA)
on 09/12 (J. Guerra). <span lang="en-GB">One photo-trapped at Parque
Natural del Tajo Internacional (CC) on 11/12 and on 13/12 (Paco
García).</span></div>
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</b><b>Curlew</b>: Two at Galisteo (CC) on 15/12 (J. Prieta) and one
on 22/12 (S. Mayordomo).</div>
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<b>-
</b><b>Spotted Redshank</b>: On the rice fields between Palazuelo
(BA) and Campo Lugar (CC), ten on 01/12 (A. Núñez), ten on 06/12
(J. P. Prieto and R. Serra) and five on 15/12 (C. Clemente and S.
Mayordomo). 20 on the rice fields at Fernando V, Madrigalejo (CC), on
15/12 (M. Kelsey). One at Toconal, Don Benito (BA), on 20/12 (J. A.
Leal).</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>-
</b></span><a href="http://aves-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/archibebe-patigualdo-chico-segundo-en.html"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Lesser
Yell</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><b>o</b></u></span></a><span style="color: black;"><b>wlegs</b></span><span style="color: black;">:
One at the rice fields at Puebla de Alcollarín, Villar de Rena (BA),
on 30/12 (Fergus Crystal, José G. Aparicio, J. Guerra and M.
Gálvez).</span></div>
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<b>-
</b><b>Wood Sandpiper</b>: Two on rice fields between Palazuelo (BA)
and Campo Lugar (CC) on 06/12 (J. P. Prieto and R. Serra) and another
on the rice fields of Guadiana del Caudillo (P. Herrador).</div>
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<b>-
</b><b>Turnstone</b>: One at Arroyoconejos reservoir, Llerena (BA),
on 02/12 (F. Montaño and Joaquín Vázquez).</div>
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<b>-
</b><b>Yellow-legged Gull</b>: There at Mérida landfill (BA) on
01/12 (J. Guerra).</div>
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</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Stock Dove</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
Three at Fresnedillas. </span>Oliva de Plasencia (CC), on 30/12 (S.
Mayordomo).</div>
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</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ring-necked Parakeet</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
One at Plasencia (CC) on 03/12 (Ricardo Montero). </span>Two at
Mérida (BA) on 20/12 (Hugo Sánchez).</div>
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</b><b>Short-eared Owl</b>: One at Valdeherrero, La Roca de la Sierra
(BA), on 20/12 (F. Lopo). One at Alvarado, Badajoz, on 23/12 (J.
Guerra).</div>
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</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>House Martin</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
At last three regularly present at Alange (BA) until 15/12 (J.
Solana, J. Guerra and M. Gálvez). </span>Five present in Badajoz
city on 26/12 (Atanasio Fernández).</div>
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<b>-
</b><b>Pied Wagtail</b><b> </b><i><b>M. a. yarrellii</b></i>:
Four at Moraleja (CC) on 01/12 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo) and
another at Mérida landfill (BA) (J. Guerra). One at Mérida (BA) on
18/12 (F. Lopo). One at Valdefuentes gravel pits, Galisteo (CC), on
22/12 (S. Mayordomo).</div>
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</b><b>Ring Ouzel</b>: Two at Hornachos castle (BA) on 29/11 and one
at San Bernabé, Don Álvaro (BA), on 23/12 (F. Crystal).</div>
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</b><b>Goldcrest</b>: One at Sierra del Ladrillar (CC) on 02/12 (A.
Pacheco).</div>
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</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Red Avadavat</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
Records at Jerez de los Caballeros (BA), three birds: a male, female
and possible juvenile in the irrigated land of Valuengo on 07/12
(Juan Carlos Delgado) and six adults at Brovales reservoir on 23/12
(Francisco Montaño -photo, male-).</span></div>
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<b>Brambling</b>: One at Parque Natural de Cornalvo (BA) on 09/12 (M.
Gálvez).</div>
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<b>Common Crossbill</b>: About 15 in the Sierra del Ladrillar (CC) on
02/12 (A. Pacheco).</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>After
a very poor autumn for rarities in Extremadura</b></span><span style="color: black;">,
especially compared with the outstanding year of 2012, when between
September and December several species of rare geese were found, a
White-tailed Eagle, a Pallid Harrier, a Yellow-browed Warbler, a
Ruppell`s Vulture and two Buff-breasted Sandpipers. </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">During
the same period in 2013 we have not had much to show</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">…</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">until
the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>30th
December 2013, when Fergus Crystal found a Lesser Yellowlegs (</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Tringa
flavipes</b></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>)
in the rice fields close to the village of Puebla de
Alcollarín</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">(Villar
de Rena, Badajoz). In the same day José Guerra, Marc Gálvez </span></span><a href="http://avesdebadajoz.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/archibebe-patigualdo-chico-2a-para-extremadura-f-crystal/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(photos,
see link</span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><span lang="en-GB">)</span></u></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> and
José Gómez Aparicio were able to watch it as well and suggested it
was an adult; after that the bird flew off and was not relocated. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">[NOTE:
the bird was found again on </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>7th
January 2014</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">by
Martin Kelsey on another rice field at the same area, Puebla de
Alcollarín.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
On </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>8th</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span lang="en-GB"></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
January</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
it was seen by </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Alberto
Gil at the same site. </span></span><span style="color: black;">On </span><span style="color: black;"><b>11th
January seen again by</b></span><span style="color: black;">
Pablo Prieto, Francisco Montaño, Sergio Mayordomo, César Clemente,
Javier Prieta, Eva Palacios, M. Gálvez, J. Guerra, Antonio Calvo,
Pepe Guisado, Pilar Goñi y Neil Renwick. On 10th February is seen again in the same place by Martin Kelsey]</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">This
is the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>second
record of this species in Extremadura</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.
The first took place 14 years ago: a probable adult seen by Agustín
Mogena on</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>8th
August 1999 at Valdesalor reservoir</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">(Cáceres).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The
Lesser Yellowlegs is a </span><span style="color: black;"><b>New World
</b></span><span style="color: black;">wader that breeds in the Arctic and
Winters from the South of North America to Chile and Argentina.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><b>In
mainland Spain there have been 57 accepted records up until 2011.</b></span><span style="color: black;">
On one occasion, two birds were together, otherwise all the records
are of single birds.</span><span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: black;">Although
it has been recorded in every month of the year, the peak is clearly</span><span style="color: black;"><b>
in autumn</b></span><span style="color: black;"> (September-December), with
a second peak in April-May. It has been recorded throughout the
peninsular, as well as on the Caneries and Balearics, </span><span style="color: black;"><b>but
mainly in</b></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><b>north-west
Spain.</b></span><span style="color: black;"> This is a typical pattern
for neartic waders. As far as we know, there were only autumn records
in 2013, from August onwards with five records: Valencia, Navarra, La
Coruña and two in the Algarve (</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.reservoirbirds.com/"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Reservoir
Birds</span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.rarebirdspain.net/home.htm"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Rare
Birds in Spain</span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;">). </span></div>
Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-58378831102426373882013-12-31T13:03:00.000+01:002014-04-23T00:20:36.311+02:00THE BLACK VULTURE IN EXTREMADURA: 2013 CENSUS<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); widows: 2; orphans: 2; }p.western { font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }p.cjk { font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }p.ctl { font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }a:visited { color: rgb(128, 0, 128); }a.western:visited { }a.cjk:visited { }a.ctl:visited { }a:link { color: rgb(0, 0, 255); }</style>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">The
Government of Extremadura has</span><span style="color: #333333;"><b>
published the results of the Black Vulture (also known as Monk or
Cinereous Vulture) (</b></span><span style="color: #333333;"><i><b>Aegypius
monachus</b></i></span><span style="color: #333333;"><b>)
census of 2013</b></span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;">(</span><a class="western" href="http://www.gobex.es/salaprensa/view/press/press/detalle.php?id=11708"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #472e9b;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">see
</span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u>link</u></span></a><span style="color: #333333;">),
showing the highest ever known population of </span><span style="color: #333333;"><b>897
breeding pairs</b></span><span style="color: #333333;">.
Furthermore, the breeding success of </span><span style="color: #333333;"><b>806
pairs was monitored, showing that 590 young fledged</b></span><span style="color: #333333;">,
in other words</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><b>a
breeding success of 73%</b></span><span style="color: #333333;">.
The first Black Vulture censuses, albeit only partially completed,
were from 1974, when only 86 pairs were known in the whole region. </span><span style="color: black;">
With the passing of time, the quality of the censuses has
significantly improved, but there was also a true increase in the
population with the figures in 1990 reaching 404 pairs, in 2000 610
pairs and in 2006 to 829 breeding pairs. Since then the population
has remained, with small fluctuations, between 800 and 900 pairs. One
must take into account that this type of census will always
underestimate the real population, owing to the difficulty of
determining if pairs do breed or because some nests remain undetected
(in order to do a thorough census it is reckoned that 16 visits are
necessary). Notwithstanding these caveats, it is clear that
Extremadura has the most important Black Vulture population in
Europe. For further information about the </span><span style="color: black;"><b>population,
evolution and distribution of the Black Vulture in Extremadura</b></span><span style="color: black;">
</span><a class="western" href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/the-cinereous-vulture-in-extremadura.html"><span style="color: blue;"><u><b>read</b></u></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><b>
here</b></u></span></a></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Annotated list
of the most interesting records in Extremadura in November 2013. Compiled and
illustration Ttree Sparrow </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Passer
montanus)<i> by Sergio Mayordomo. Translated by Martin Kelsey</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <b>White-fronted
Goose</b>: One at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on
24/11 (Francisco Lopo, Francisco Montaño and Gema Montaño).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <b>Egyptian Goose</b>: Six at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) (Toribio Álvarez) and
one at Brovales reservoir, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerez</st1:place></st1:city>
de los Caballeros (BA) (Antonio Núñez), on 01/11. Two present on a pool in <st1:personname productid="la Serena" w:st="on">La Serena</st1:personname> (BA) on 09/11 (F.
Montaño and G. Montaño). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at <st1:personname productid="La Isla" w:st="on">La Isla</st1:personname> pool, Navalvillar de
Pela (BA), 19/11 (Juan Antonio Barquero). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 23/11 (Dave
Langlois and Sammy Langlois).</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <b>Ruddy Shelduck</b>: Two at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 08/11 (Sergio
Mayordomo) and on 23/11 (D. Langlois and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Langlois</st1:place>).
Two at Borbollón reservoir (CC) on 16/11 (Goyo Naharro). One at Santa Amalia
rice fields (BA) on 29/11 (Fernando Yuste).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <b>Common Shelduck</b>: Two at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 08/11 (S. Mayordomo)
and one on 10/11 (Javier Briz and Vicente Risco). Seven present at Sierra Brava
reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 13/11 (Martin Kelsey) and two on 24/11 (José Guerra,
Marc Gálvez, Miquel Ángel López and Núria Tarrasón). Two on the Santa Amalia
rice fields (BA) on 22/11 (Ángel Sánchez), three on 23/11 (Á. Sánchez and F.
Yuste) and six on 28/11 (Kelly Renwick, Neil Renwick and William Haworth) and
on 29/11 (F. Yuste).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Núñez, Eva Palacios, F. Montaño, José Gómez Aparicio, Miguel Ángel Muñoz and
Vanessa de Alba) and a male there on 13/11 (Martin Kelsey). A male at Alange
reservoir (BA) on 10/11 (José Guerra and Marc Gálvez). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A
male at Moral reservoir, Los Santos de Maimona (BA), on 17/11 (A. Núñez, César
Clemente, E. Palacios, F. Montaño, M. Á. Muñoz, Paco Ramírez, S. Mayordomo and
V. de Alba).</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Duck</b>: Four at pool of Los Calles, Toril (CC), on 01/11 (E. Palacios -<b><i>photo</i></b>-
and J. G. Aparicio) and on 08/11 (<st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>),
and five there on 23/11 (Antolín Redondo, Guillermo Rivas and Leandro Rivas).
Three at <st1:personname productid="La Atalaya" w:st="on">La Atalaya</st1:personname>,
Aldea del Cano (CC), on 10/11 (A. Núñez and V. de Alba) and on 17/11 (Jesús
Solana), still present on 25/11 (Alejandro Puerto) and four there on 28/11 (S.
Mayordomo). One at Corral Alto pool, Zorita (CC), on 30/11 (Pepe Guisado and
Pilar Goñi).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Northern Bobwhite</b>: Two in stubble
at Montijo (BA) on 15/11 (P. Herrador).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Common
Pheasant</b>: A female in maize stubble at Vegas Altas (BA) on 24/11 (M. Á.
Muñoz). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One calling at Matachel River, Valencia de las Torres (BA), on
30/11 (M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Grebe: </b> Two at Sierra Brava
reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 10/11 (Antonio Calvo -<b><i>photo</i></b>-), on
13/11 and on 22/11 (M. Kelsey), and one there on 24/11 (J. Guerra, M. Gálvez,
M. Á. López and <st1:place w:st="on">N. Tarrasón</st1:place>). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Moheda Alta, Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 30/11 (M. Kelsey and S.
Mayordomo).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Squacco
Heron</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Two in rice
fields at El Batán (CC) on 03/11 (S. Mayordomo) and one on 19/11 (C. Clemente).
One seen from Puente Viejo in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city>
on 04/11 and 2 el 17/11 (Juan Carlos Paniagua). One in rice fields at Palazuelo
(BA) on 24/11 (M. Á. Muñoz).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Western Reef
Egret</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Possible example
but a hybrid with Little Egret cannot be ruled-out, at Molino de <st1:personname productid="la Aceña" w:st="on">la Aceña</st1:personname>, Don Álvaro (BA), on
19/11 (J. Guerra).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Black Stork</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Four on the Canal de las Dehesas (BA/CC)
on 01/11 (José Ángel Sánchez and Luis Salguero), one on 16/11 (A. Calvo), three
on 19/11 (J. A. Barquero) and 11 on 22/11 (Á. Sánchez). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Villar de Plasencia (CC) on 05/11 (Ricardo Montero). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at Fresnedillas, Oliva de Plasencia
(CC) on 11/11 (R. Montero) and four there on 16/11 (Javier Prieta) and also on 24/11
(Jesús Montero). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Three at the El Sevillano dam, Puebla de Alcocer (BA), on 12/11
(J. A. Barquero). One at Moheda Alta, Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 16/11 (A.
Calvo). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Jarripa reservoir, Torremocha (CC), on 25/11
(A. Puerto). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Galisteo (CC) on 27/11 (S. Mayordomo). Two at Dehesa de
Solana, Herrera de Alcántara (CC) on 28/11 (Antonio Galán).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Palacios and J. G. Aparicio) and three there on 03/11 (J. Prieta and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>). Four at El Batán rice fields (CC) on 01/11
(<st1:place w:st="on">E. Palacios</st1:place> and J. G. Aparicio) and on 05/11
(R. Montero). Four in a Cattle Egret roost at Valdeobispo lagoon (CC) on 03/11
(J. Prieta and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>). Five at Santa
Amalia (BA) on 15/11 (José Antonio Román), on 24/11 (F. Montaño) and on 28/11
(K. Renwick, N. Renwick and <st1:place w:st="on">W. Haworth</st1:place>).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Spoonbill</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Nine at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on
11/11 (Emilio Costillo), eight on 19/11 (F. Lopo) and six on 24/11 (F. Lopo, F.
Montaño and G. Montaño). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at Brovales reservoir, Jerez de los Caballeros (BA), on 28/11
(S. Mayordomo).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Flamingo</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: A juvenile
in the Santa Amalia rice fields (BA) on 29/11 (Fernando Yuste).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Egyptian
Vulture</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Five over
the Viñuelas gravel pits, Galisteo (CC), on 13/11 (S. Mayordomo).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Goshawk</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One at Vegas Altas (BA) on 01/11 (Juan Pablo
Prieto and <st1:place w:st="on">W. Haworth</st1:place>). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at riverside trail Plasencia (CC) on 17/11 (R. Montero).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Osprey</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on
01/11 (Toribio Álvarez), on 15/11 (Inmaculada Jerez and José Luis Bautista) and
on 24/11 (F. Lopo, F. Montaño and G. Montaño). One at Portaje reservoir (CC) on
01/11 (<st1:place w:st="on">E. Palacios</st1:place> and J. G. Aparicio). One at
Cubilar reservoir, Logrosán (CC), on 01/11 (J. Á. Sánchez and L. Salguero) and
on 30/11 (M. Kelsey). One at Borbollón reservoir (CC) on 13/11 (Kenet Sánchez
and R. Montero). One at Gabriel y Galán reservoir (CC) on 18/11 (J. Montero).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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A male at Palazuelo (BA) on 17/11 (José Luis Pérez Chiscano).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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The census in the Central Zone (BA/CC) produced a figure of 43,051 birds on 15/11
(Emilio Peña, F. Yuste, Francisco Borja Maldonado, J. A. Román, J. Guerra, J.
P. Prieto, Manuel Gómez Calzado, M. Gálvez and W. Haworth).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Avocet</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Five on rice fields between Palazuelo
(BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) on 22/11 (M. Kelsey). 14 at Sierra Brava reservoir,
Zorita (CC), on 22/11 (M. Kelsey) and three on 24/11 (J. Guerra, M. Gálvez, M.
Á. López and <st1:place w:st="on">N. Tarrasón</st1:place>). Two at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> large lagoon (BA)
on 23/11 (Godfried Schreur and Pedro Schreur).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Kentish
Plover</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: 47 at
Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 08/11 (S. Mayordomo). Three at Santa Amalia rice
fields (BA) on 09/11 (F. Montaño and G. Montaño) and five on 24/11 (F.
Montaño). 11 on rice fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) on
11/11 (M. Kelsey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Dotterel</b>:
Four on Hinojal plains (CC) on 09/11 (Chris Mills and R. Montero -<b><i>photo</i></b>-)
and seven present there for the remainder of the month (Á. Sánchez, Antonio
Ceballos, A. Núñez, Carmen Diu, C. Clemente, Chema Diu, D. Langlois, E.
Palacios, Francis Martín, F. Montaño, José Luis Copete, J. Guerra, Julio
Ceballos, M. Gálvez, M. Kelsey, Michel Viskens, M. Á. Muñoz, P. Ramírez, R.
Montero, S. Langlois, SEO-Cáceres, S. Mayordomo and V de Alba).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Grey Plover</b>: Two juveniles at
Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 08/11 (C. Mills and R. Montero).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Sanderling</b>: One at large lagoon
at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
(BA) on 23/11 (G. Schreur and P. Schreur).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Curlew Sandpiper</b>: One at Moral
reservoir, Los Santos de Maimona (BA), on 08/11 (A. Núñez and V. de Alba). Two
on rice fields at Santa Amalia (BA) on 09/11 (F. Montaño and G. Montaño). One
on rice fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) on 17/11 (M.
Kelsey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Jack Snipe</b>: One in irrigation
canal at Galisteo (CC) on 11/11 (J. Guerra y M. Gálvez). One in rice fields at
Riolobos (CC) on 13/11 (S. Mayordomo). Four in rice fields at Palazuelo (BA) on
24/11 (M. Á. Muñoz).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Woodcock</b>: One at Puebla de Obando (BA) on 15/11 (J. L.
Bautista and P. Herrador)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Spotted Redshank</b>: One at Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC),
on 08/11 amd another at Lugar Nuevo, Peraleda de <st1:personname productid="la Mata" w:st="on">la Mata</st1:personname> (CC) (S. Mayordomo). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at Santa Amalia (BA) on 09/11 (F.
Montaño and G. Montaño). One on rice fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo
Lugar (CC) on 13/11, 2 on 22/11 (M. Kelsey) and one on 28/11 (K. Renwick, N.
Renwick and <st1:place w:st="on">W. Haworth</st1:place>). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at <st1:personname productid="la Jarilla" w:st="on">La Jarilla</st1:personname>
reservoir (CC) on 16/11 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Yellow-legged Gull</b>: At least four
at Mérida landfill (BA) on 07/11 (M. Gálvez). One at Valdecañas reservoir (CC)
on 08/11 (S. Mayordomo). One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 10/11 (J. Guerra and
M. Gálvez). Two at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city>
landfill on16/11 (J. C. Paniagua).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Stock Dove</b>: 20 at Galisteo (CC)
on 05/11 (R. Montero) and two on 11/11 (J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>). 60 at Vegas Altas (BA) on 15/11 (M.
Kelsey). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at Riolobos (CC) on 20/11 (S. Mayordomo). Six at Cortijo
de <st1:personname productid="la Concepción" w:st="on">la Concepción</st1:personname>,
Retamal de Llerena (BA), on 30/11 (M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Ring-necked Parakeet</b>: One seen on
riverside trail, Plasencia (CC) on 03/11 (R. Montero) and on 21/11 (Montaña
Domínguez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Monk Parakeet</b>: Four at Parque <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">del</st1:place></st1:state> Príncipe de Cáceres
on 04/11 (Alberto Gil) and at the municipal hostel on 17/11 (Francisco Javier Caballero).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Long-eared Owl</b>: Two within <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city></st1:place> city on 07/11 (J.
Guerra).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Wryneck</b>: One at Monfragüe (CC) on
14/11 (Manolo García del Rey and Mark Hörstermann). One at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Matachel</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
Alange (BA) on 22/11 (J. Guerra and Lorenzo Alcántara).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Pied Wagtail</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: <i>Subspecies M. a. yarrellii</i>: One at Mérida
landfill (BA) on 07/11 (M. Gálvez). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Soto gravel pits,
Valverde de Mérida (BA) on 08/11 (J. Guerra). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at rice fields El Batán (CC) on 13/11 and one on
20/11 and 27/11 (S. Mayordomo). One at rice fields at Riolobos (CC) on 17/11
(J. Prieta -<b><i>photo</i></b>-).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Ring Ouzel</b>: Two at
Sierra del Castellar, Zafra (BA), on 11/11 (A. Núñez) and between two and four
seen there from 12/11 until 25/11 (Antonia Cangas, A. Núñez, C. Clemente,
Elvira del Viejo, E. Palacios, Fergus Crystal, F. Montaño -<b><i>photo</i></b>-,
Joaquín Vázquez, José Antonio Delgado, M. Á. Muñoz, P. Ramírez, S. Mayordomo
and V. de Alba).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Goldcrest</b>: Two in pinewood in
Zafra (BA) on 21/11 (F. Montaño).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Citril Finch</b>: Several in pine at Serradilla
(CC) on 27/11 (David Cobos).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">FIRST WINTER OBSERVATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Two at Sierra de Utrera, Oliva de Mérida (BA), on 09/11 (M. Gálvez). Two at Sierra
del Castellar, Zafra (BA), on 12/11 (A. Núñez and F. Montaño) and on 17/11 (A.
Núñez, C. Clemente, E. Palacios, F. Montaño, M. Á. Muñoz, P. Ramírez, S.
Mayordomo and V. de Alba) and six on 25/11 (F. Montaño).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Siskin</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: A female along riverside trail, Plasencia (CC) on 03/11 (J. Prieta)
and a pair there on 06/11 (S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Reed Bunting</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Three at Viñuelas gravel pit, Galisteo
(CC), on 03/11 (S. Mayordomo). One between Montehermoso and El Batán (CC) on
05/11 (C. Clemente). At least three at</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Arrocampo (CC) on 08/11
(S. Mayordomo).</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Purple Heron</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One at El Batán rice fields (CC) on
05/11 (C. Clemente). One at rice fields at Campo Lugar (CC) on 16/11 (A.
Calvo).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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One at Matachel River, Valencia de las Torres (BA), on 01/11 (Manuel, Marisol
Díaz and M. Gálvez).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Booted Eagle</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: A pale morph at Lobón (BA) on 24/11
(Pablo Herrador).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Lesser
Kestrel</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Four males
between Valdivia and Entrerríos (BA) on 08/11 (J. P. Prieto). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Campo Lugar (CC) on 09/11 (A. Calvo).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Pallid Swift</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Three at Alange (BA) on 06/11 (M.
Gálvez) and on 10/11 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez), four on 12/11 (J. Guerra and M.
Gálvez) and on 19/11 (J. Solana), and one on 29/11 (J. Solana).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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on 05/11 (J. C. Paniagua). Eight at Alange (BA) on 17/11 (M. Gálvez) and three
on 20/11 (Aleix Millet, Alicia Carreño, J. Guerra and M. Gálvez).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Barn Swallow</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One at Barquilla de Pinares (CC) on
02/11 (Virgilio Beltrán). One at Alange (BA) on 04/11 and on 12/11 (J. Guerra
and M. Gálvez). One at Valdefuentes gravel pits, Galisteo (CC), on 11/11 (J.
Guerra, M. Gálvez and S. Mayordomo). One at Villar de Rena (BA) on 15/11 (J. P.
Prieto and <st1:place w:st="on">W. Haworth</st1:place>). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Sierra Brava reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 24/11 (J. Guerra, M. Gálvez, M. Á.
López and N. Tarrasón).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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11 at Valdefuentes gravel pits, Galisteo
(CC) on 11/11 (J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and S. Mayordomo). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Alange (BA) on 12/11 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- House Martin</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Present at Alange (BA) throughout the
whole of November, e.g. three on 12/11 and five on 16/11 (J. Guerra and M.
Gálvez). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Olivenza (BA) on 17/11 (Arturo Domínguez).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Northern Wheatear</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One between Villanueva de <st1:personname productid="la Serena" w:st="on">la Serena</st1:personname> and Magacela (BA) on
04/11. One at Casas de Belvís (CC) on 10/11 (J. Briz).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Chiffchaff</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">:
One at Galisteo (CC) on 03/11 (J. Prieta and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>).
One at Alange (BA) on 06/11 and another on 13/11 (M. Gálvez).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Willow Warbler</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One at Los Santos de Maimona (BA) on 08/11 (A. Núñez and V. de
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;">Fernando</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;">, a Greater Flamingo (<i>Phoenicopterus
roseus</i>) of French origin seen at Santa Amalia (<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city>) in March 2013 was over 33 years old,
the oldest wild bird ever recorded Extremadura, according to the SEO-Cáceres/GOCE
database. Photo by Fernando Yuste<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">This post has been ready
for publication for several weeks. However, just by chance new information
about longevity in birds has been arriving, meaning that we have incorporated
this to make a post a little longer than usual, and hopefully even more interesting.
It is likely that our information is incomplete, representing as it does
recently available information gathered by a small group of enthusiasts. <b>If someone has sightings in Extremadura of
older birds and would like to share their news, we would be delighted to
publish it here</b>. None of this information would have been available at all
without the work of bird ringers and those birders who patiently read the codes
on rings and send the information through. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">To all of
those, a big thank you. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ringing does
not only help the study of the movements of birds, but also provides
information of great value about various aspects of biology. How long a bird
can live, in other words its longevity, is one of these. For this we have
searched the modest but growing <b>ringing
database of GOCE </b>in order to determine <b>the
oldest birds that we have seen in Extremadura</b>, and then comparing this with
data published at both a European and global scale, some of which may not be
wholly reliable (</span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.euring.org/data_and_codes/longevity-voous.htm"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Euring</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://genomics.senescence.info/species/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">HAGR</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Greater Flamingo (<i>Phoenicopterus
roseus</i>).</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ring Y[HIF].</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Named "Fernando". A male ringed in the Camargue
(France) on 3rd August 1979 and seen on the rice fields of Santa Amalia
(Badajoz) by Fernando Yuste and Isaac Outón on 17th March <st1:metricconverter productid="2013, in" w:st="on">2013, in</st1:metricconverter> its <b>35th calendar
year and 33 years, 7 months and 14 days
since being ringed</b>. It is, by far, the<b>
oldest bird that has been seen in Extremadura, as far as we know</b>. During
its lifetime, it has been seen many times, so many observations in fact that it
could fill four pages of notes. We know that it has bred in its place of origin
in <b>the Camargue</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(1987, 1991, 1992 and 2009) as well as
in the colony near <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Malaga</st1:city></st1:place>
of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Fuente de Piedra</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(1988, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2004 and
2006). It has also been seen in the Ebro Delta, Doñana and the Villacañas
lagoon (<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toledo</st1:place></st1:city>).
It has only been seen once in Extremadura, as recorded above [</span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/62052322"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">see video</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">]. Our data also include a record of a female Greater
Flamingo seen at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
in September <st1:metricconverter productid="2013 in" w:st="on">2013 in</st1:metricconverter>
its 18th calendar year (José A. Román). Ringing of flamingos started in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b>France</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in 1977 and there are still birds
alive today from that period, with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://dacaio.over-blog.com/article-libres-comme-l-air-104802153.html">35
years of age</a>, although the maximum age given in Euring is 27 years.
Flamingos are long-lived birds, with birds in captivity easily exceeding 60
years and the author once saw in Almeria a group of five ringed flamingos with
ages of 18, 18, 18, 22 and 23 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Eurasian Spoonbill (<i>Platalea leucorodia</i>).</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rings<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>W[D]
/ W[S]a</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">. This bird was marked as a nestling in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Holland</st1:place></st1:city> on 11th June 1988
and seen at Portaje Reservoir (Cáceres) by Sergio Mayordomo on 25 September <st1:metricconverter productid="2012 in" w:st="on">2012 in</st1:metricconverter> its<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>25th calendar year having passed 24
years and 3.5 months since being ringed</b>. It is a male that had lost one of
its rings, as can be seen in the photo, and thus could not be identified
between 1994 and 2002. During its first two years there were sightings in the
United Kingdom (from 12-10 to 18-11-08 and from 26-06 to 20-09-89), Algarve,
Portugal (15 and 19-10-89) and Doñana (8 to 15-03-90), and in Holland on
16-07-90. Afterwards it was seen during several years in <st1:city w:st="on">Huelva</st1:city>
on autumn migration, once in December and in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Holland</st1:place></st1:city> during the breeding season. </span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">The only
sighting in Extremadura is the Portaje Reservoir record. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">In our region, Spoonbills of 18 and 19 years old have
been seen. We have not found information about the oldest wild Spoonbill in
Europe, but in captivity one reached 30 years and in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place> other species of spoonbills
have reached 28 years in the wild. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(<i>Larus fuscus</i>)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">.<b> Ring
B[PC]</b>. Ringed as a nestling in Bristol (UK) on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>4th July 1989</b>. There were no further records
until <b>October 2013</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>when Marc Gálvez and José Guerra saw it on Mérida refuse tip [</span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://avesdebadajoz.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/pc-una-gaviota-sombria-de-24-anos/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">read</span></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <span lang="EN-GB">more]. Therefore it is a bird in its <b>25th calendar year</b>, having passed <b>24 years and three
months since being ringed. </b>As can
be seen from the photo, the ring is now in poor condition. The maximum age known
for this species in the world was one of 34 years and 10 months, also from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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(Aragón) in 1988 and seen by Manolo Gómez Calzado in Vegas Altas del Guadiana
(Extremadura) on several occasions since <st1:metricconverter productid="2003. In" w:st="on">2003. In</st1:metricconverter> January 2009 and
October 2011 it was accompanied by its mate, but without young. It is therefore
a bird of its <b>24th calendar year and with more than 22 years of age </b>[<a href="http://grullasveo.blogspot.com.es/2011/01/una-grulla-longeva.html">read
more</a>]. This bird <b>exceeds the record
of the oldest according to Euring for Europe,</b> which cites a Swedish bird of
20 years and three months of age, although both are far from the record achieved
by a bird of the eastern race (<i>lilfordi</i>) which reached 41 years old in
the wild. In Extremadura we have another record of a crane in its 20<sup>th</sup>
calendar year, hatched in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and seen in Oliva de Plasencia (Javier Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in Scotland in 1991 (photo: Roy Dennis), where it has bred since1996, and has<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>wintered, at least since 2000, at
the Gabriel y Galán Reservoir (Cáceres)</b>, where it is currently present
(November 2013; Jesús Montero. </span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">César Clemente, S. Mayordomo, J. Prieta). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is therefore a bird in its <b>23th calendar year
and more than 22 years old</b>. This bird perhaps merits its own post, since it
has been tracked for three seasons by satellite, as have one of its mates and
some of its young (all have wintered in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>).
One of its descendents is also part of an introduction project that has started
in Urdaibai (Vizcaya). The oldest Osprey known is one of 32 years old in North
America and in Europe one of 26 years and 11 months in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Finland</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ciconia</i>). Ring W[F|FS].</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hatched
in a nest in Trujillo (Cáceres), where it was ringed on 6th June 1989, and has
been seen twice nesting in a <b>clump of
pines at</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b> Monroy</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Cáceres), with records almost twenty
years apart: on 12th April 1992 (I. Ludwichowst) and on 1st April 2010 (Juan
Manuel Domínguez –photo-).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Who
knows if it is still there</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(if
anyone is encouraged to look for it, the colony is beside the Cáceres -Torrejón
el Rubio-Monfragüe road). It was in its <b>22nd calendar year and 21 years and
10 months since being ringed</b>. It was also seen in January 2002 at a refuse tip
at Cádiz and in January 2003 en the rubbish tip at <st1:city w:st="on">Dos
Hermanas</st1:city> (<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seville</st1:place></st1:city>).
The oldest ages published for this species are: 39 years for a wild bird in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:place></st1:country-region> and
48 years in captivity. In Extremadura we have two records of birds in their 18th and 16th calendar years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we are talking about the dearly loved </span></span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Choni</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">, subject of one of the
most popular posts in this blog [<a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/choni-black-stork.html">readmore</a>]. Hatched in Oliva de Plasencia (Cáceres) in 1990, it occupied one of
the most visible <b>nests in Monfragüe for 18 years</b>, successfully raising
46 young. It was seen for the last time in the summer of <st1:metricconverter productid="2011, in" w:st="on">2011, in</st1:metricconverter> its <b>22nd calendar
year and with more 21 years and 3 months </b>since being ringed, it could be the longest lived Black Stork in
the world. There is a published record of a bird of 18 years and 7 months from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Poland</st1:place></st1:country-region> and one
of 31 years in captivity. In Extremadura
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the only ones citing birds of more than 20 years old in Extremadura. </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Examples of birds of great age, but less than 20
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carbo</i>). A <b>17 year old</b> bird<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city> (Ismael Galván). The oldest wild bird
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nilotica</i>). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the GOCE database we
only have records of four birds, with ages of 11, 11, 13 and 16 calendar years
(the last has<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>14 years and 10
months</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>since ringing;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://chajurdo.blogspot.com.es/2013_05_01_archive.html"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">see the blog of Atanasio Fernández</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">). This is a high average, given that the oldest of
this species ever recorded is one of 15 years and 9 months from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Denmark</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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anser</i>). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Birds of more than 11 and 13 calendar
years (marked as adults) have been seen on the Portaje Reservoir (<st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>) and Valdesalor Reservoir (Carlos
Fernández). The oldest in captivity in the world was 31 years old, although a wild
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.seo.org/2013/11/25/el-%C2%B4matusalen%C2%B4-de-los-aviones-comunes-acaba-en-las-garras-de-un-carabo/"><span lang="EN-GB">A few days ago news came out</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> about a <b>House
Martin</b> <b>(<i>Delichon urbicum</i>) ringed in Badajoz city in 2005 </b>and found dead in a<b> pellet of a Tawny Owl,
collected just <st1:metricconverter productid="400 metres" w:st="on">400 metres</st1:metricconverter>
from the site of ringing, eight years later. </b>The site could not have been
any other since <st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city> is where House Martins
have been more closely studied than almost anywhere and it is where more House
Martins have been ringed and controlled than anywhere else in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region> (Florentino
de Lope’s team/UEX; photo by Carlos de <st1:personname productid="la Cruz" w:st="on">la Cruz</st1:personname>). This becomes the <b>longest-lived of this species in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(there are two cases of seven-year old
birds); although in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sweden</st1:place></st1:country-region>
there is a record of 15 years. These are all extraordinary results for a
species which on average will live for just two or three years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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let’s continue: <b>what are the longest
living birds in the wild?</b> At the global level, there is a female <b>Laysan Albatross</b> (<i>Phoebastria
immutabilis</i>), called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wisdom</i>,
which is still alive and is breeding in Midway (<st1:state w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:state>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>),
where in 2013 she succeeded to raise a young, despite being <b><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/worlds-oldest-wild-bird-hatches-chick-age-62.html">62
years old</a></b>. She was marked in
1953 when five years old. It is said
that other albatrosses have lived longer, but that this has not been confirmed
with marked birds. Thus there is a female Northern Royal Albatross (<i>Diomedea
sanfordi</i>) called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Grandma</i> also
believed to be <a href="http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/245031/albatross-equals-chick-record">62
years old</a>, with an estimated age of ten years when ringed in 1937, and seen
for the last time in 1989, 52 years later. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">the
longest-lived bird we have come across is a Manx Shearwater </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">(<i>Puffinus puffinus</i>) of more than <b>50 years
and 11 months old<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(trapped as
an adult). The following is a Tufted Duck (<i>Aythya fuligula</i>) of more than
45 years and three months, a Fulmar (<i>Fulmarus glacialis</i>) of more than 43
years and 11 months and an Oystercatcher (<i>Haematopus ostralegus</i>) of 43
years and 4 months. As one can see, seabirds, waterfowl and waders can reach
great age, but also raptors (Golden Eagle 32 years, Eagle Owl 27 years) and
even smaller birds like Alpine Swift (26 years) and passerines (Raven 23 years,
Common Starling 23 years).</span></span></div>
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scientific publication on longevity in parrots that <a href="file:///C:/Users/JAVI/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/AF82WYM6/a%20(Cacatua%20moluccensis)">cites a Salmon-crested Cockatoo (<i>Cacatua moluccensis</i>)</a> of no less than
92 years old. There is a Greater Flamingo in a zoo in <st1:city w:st="on">Adelaide</st1:city>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>)
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Flamingo#Lifespan">which is more
than 80 years old</a>, having lived there since 1933, when it arrived as an
adult. In a zoo in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city>
there is a cockatoo (<i><span style="background: white;">Lophochroa leadbeateri</span></i>)
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_(cockatoo)">80 years old</a>,
called <i>Cookie</i>, which hatched in 1933.
These figures are a long way short of the </span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2010/07/13/grand-paws-10-of-the-worlds-longest-lived-animals/"><span lang="EN-GB">255 years calculated by radiocarbon
dating of a <b>male Aldabran Tortoise</b></span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;">(<i>Geochelone gigantea</i>), called <i>Adwaita</i>, captured
in the Seychelles and kept in a zoo in India from 1875 to its death in 2006 (a
life spanning three centuries!!). The longest-lived mammal appears to be a </span><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/JAVI/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/AF82WYM6/(Balaena%20mysticetus)"><span lang="EN-GB">Bowhead
Whale (<i>Balaena mysticetus</i>)</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">. In some specimens remains of antique harpoons have
been found which date back to the end of the 19th century suggesting
ages of between 115-130 years. Additional studies based on the eye structure
affirm the possibility that the species could <b>reach 150-200 years old</b>.</span></span></div>
Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-77564746589658321592013-11-26T20:56:00.000+01:002013-11-28T20:57:31.787+01:00SPANISH IMPERIAL EAGLE: POPULATION IN 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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another year’s update on the <b>population
of the</b> <b>Spanish Imperial Eagle (<st1:place w:st="on"><i>Aquila</i></st1:place><i> adalberti</i>) in the Iberian peninsular
and in Extremadura</b>. On this occasion the <a href="file:///C:/Users/JAVI/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/ADHVHO7Q/ww.magrama.gob.es/es/prensa/noticias/el-%C3%A1guila-imperial-avanza-en-su-recuperaci%C3%B3n-y-supera-las-400-parejas-en-la-pen%C3%ADnsula-ib%C3%A9rica/tcm7-302145-16">official
data</a> has been published much earlier than usual and has been covered
extensively in the <a href="http://www.hoy.es/v/20131014/sociedad/extremadura-censado-parejas-aguila-20131014.html">press</a>.
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excellent season for the species, with a new record of <b>407 pairs in the peninsular (<st1:metricconverter productid="396 in" w:st="on">396 in</st1:metricconverter> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>
and <st1:metricconverter productid="11 in" w:st="on">11 in</st1:metricconverter>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region></st1:place>)</b>,
27 more than the previous year, an <b>increase
of 7.5%.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Apart from in <b>Extremadura, where there has been a small decrease of three pairs</b>,
and in Castilla y León, the population of Spanish Imperial Eagle has increased
in all of the other autonomous communities of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place>, especially in Castilla-La
Mancha and in Andalucia. Extremadura continues to be the region with the
slowest increase of Spanish Imperial Eagle, from being second position in 1999
to the penultimate in <st1:metricconverter productid="2013. In" w:st="on">2013.
<b>In</b></st1:metricconverter><b> these 15 years of exhaustive monitoring,
the population has multiplied three-fold across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but only by 1.5 times in
Extremadura.</b> In comparison, in Castilla – <st1:personname productid="La Mancha" w:st="on">La Mancha</st1:personname> the population has
risen by more than four times, and around 3.5 times in Castilla y León and
Andalucia. <st1:state w:st="on">Madrid</st1:state> for its part has doubled its
figures, whilst in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portugal</st1:place></st1:country-region>
the population has grown from a single pair in 2003 to 11 pairs ten years
later. Almost certainly, the different trends shown are closely related to the
conservation status of rabbit populations.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Annotated list
of the most interesting records in Extremadura in October 2013. Compiled and
illustration by Sergio Mayordomo. Translated by Martin Kelsey</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">- Egyptian
Goose: </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At Brovales reservoir, Jerez de los Caballeros (BA), three seen on
02/10, 07/10 (Francisco Montaño) and 27/10 (Genaro González). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At Morante reservoir, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city></st1:place>, one on 06/10 (Francisco Lopo) and
two on 18/10 (Pablo Herrador). At Cubilar reservoir, Logrosán (CC), 20 seen on
18/10 (José Antonio Román) and eight on 27/10 (Jaime Cerezo, Jorge Ángel
Herrera and Noelia Baeza).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Garganey: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A
young bird at Moral reservoir, Santos de Maimona (BA), on 08/10 (F. Montaño).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Red-crested
Pochard</b>: At Portaje reservoir (CC) a female seen on 04/10 (Sergio
Mayordomo) and two females on 20/10 (Javier Prieta). At <st1:personname productid="La Atalaya" w:st="on">La Atalaya</st1:personname>, Aldea del Cano
(CC), six birds present on 05/10 (César Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S.
Mayordomo</st1:place>) and three on 29/10 (Marc Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Ferruginous
Duck</b>: Six present at Torrealba lagoon, Torremocha (CC), on 05/10 (C.
Clemente and S. Mayordomo). A pair at the Los Calles pool, Toril (CC), on 16/10
(J. Prieta). At <st1:personname productid="La Atalaya" w:st="on">La Atalaya</st1:personname>,
Aldea del Cano (CC), four seen on 28/10 (Alberto Puente de <st1:personname productid="la Rosa" w:st="on">la Rosa</st1:personname>) with a male remaining
on 29/10 (M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Quail</b>: One at Casas
de Hitos, Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 03/10 (Martin Kelsey). One heard at
Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC), on 13/10 (Carlos Moreno, Natalia Franco, Óscar
Llama, Rafael Vicente and Yasmina Annicharicco). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at Cubilar reservoir, Logrosán (CC), on 27/10 (J.
Cerezo, J. Á. Herrera and N. Baeza).</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Great
Cormorant</b>: 827 counted at Alange reservoir (BA) on 20/10 (J. Guerra). 250 birds
at the roost at Gabriel y Galán (CC) on 28/10 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Great
Bittern</b>: One at Arrocampo (CC) on 09/10 (S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Squacco
Heron</b>: On <st1:placename w:st="on">Guadiana</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype> where it passes through <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city> one seen on 05/10 (SEO-Badajoz) and
another on 31/10 (Juan Carlos Salgado). One at Arrocampo (CC) on 10/10 (Jesús
Sánchez and José Luis Bautista). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Galisteo lagoon
(CC) on 31/10 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Presumed
hybrid Little x Western Reef Egret:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at the heron roost at Arrocampo on
09/10 (S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Great
Egret</b>: At last 24 entering the heron roost at Arrocampo (CC) on 09/10 (S.
Mayordomo) and 16/10 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Glossy
Ibis</b>: Observations at Galisteo lagoon (CC) of between one and 14 birds from
02/10 to 31/10 (Alberto Pacheco, Carlos Martín, C. Clemente, Javier Mahillo, J.
Prieta, Jenny Viskens, Luis Miguel Parejo, Michel Viskens, Miguel Ángel Muñoz,
Ricardo Montero, Keneth Sánchez and S. Mayordomo); the group of 14 was seen on 08/10
(R. Montero). On 09/10 at least ten entered the roost at Valdeobispo lagoon
(CC) (J. Prieta). One at Arrocampo (CC) on 09/10 (S. Mayordomo). One at rice
fields at El Batán (CC) on 20/10 (J. Prieta and R. Montero). Seven on rice
fields at Santa Amalia (BA) on 30/10 (Fernando Yuste).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Spoonbill</b>:
Post-breeding flocks: At Galisteo lagoon (CC) 20 seen on 02/10 (J. Prieta) and
05/10 (R. Montero), and between 40 to 50 on 06/10 (A. Pacheco). At Portaje
reservoir 34 birds seen on 04/10 and 20 on 18/10 (S. Mayordomo). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At
Los Canchales reservoir (BA) 20 seen on 06/10 (Dolores Huerta, F. Lopo, José
Guerra, M. Gálvez and Mariano Martínez) and on 12/10 (Antonia Cangas, Elvira
del Viejo, F. Lopo, José Gómez Aparicio, J. Guerra, Lucas Gómez and M. Gálvez).
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At Brovales reservoir (BA), 27 birds on
11/10 (G. González). 33 flying over Azud del Guadiana, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city></st1:place>, on 19/10 (SEO-Badajoz).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Greater Flamingo</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: 43 at the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 03/10 (F.
Montaño) and 04/10 (J. A. Román), with 11 remaining by 12/10 (Joaquín Mazón and
Juan Carlos Paniagua) and only four young birds present on l21/10 (F. Montaño
and Joaquín Vázquez) and 23/10 (Andrés Vega, F. Montaño and J. Guerra). Three
of these birds were marked: a 3º female from Doñana, an 8º year female from the
Camargue (France) and an 18-year old female from Fuente de Piedra (Málaga). At
Morante reservoir, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city>,
a young bird was present on 06/10 (F. Lopo) and 11/10 (J. L. Bautista), and two
young birds on 17/10 (J. L. Bautista -<i>photo</i>-) and 18/10 (P. Herrador). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Los Canchales reservoir on 12/10 (A. Cangas, E. del Viejo, J. G. Aparicio,
J. Guerra, L. Gómez and M. Gálvez).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Black Kite</b>: One at
Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC), on 13/10 (C. Moreno, N. Franco, Ó. Llama, R.
Vicente and Y. Annicharicco).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Black
Vulture</b>: 97 birds, 31 perched and <st1:metricconverter productid="66 in" w:st="on">66 in</st1:metricconverter> flight, at the Mérida refuse dump (J. A.
Román).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Goshawk</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One seen in Las Hurdes (CC) on 03/10 (A. Pacheco). At Alía (CC) one
seen on 05/10 and another on 06/10 (J. Á. Herrera and N. Baeza). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Valverde de Mérida (BA) on 20/10 (J. Guerra and Silvia Domínguez). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Cubilar reservoir, Logrosán (CC),
on 27/10 (J. Cerezo, J. Á. Herrera and N. Baeza).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Osprey</b>:
One at Jerte reservoir (CC) and another nearby, along the N-110 road, on 01/10
(J. Prieta). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At Los Canchales reservoir (BA), one seen on 02/10 (Ada Kouri and
Carlos González), 03/10 (C. González and Fernando Díez) and 06/10 (D. Huerta,
J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and M. Martínez). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 08/10 (J. Guerra and
M. Gálvez). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One present at Arroyoconejos reservoir, Llerena (BA), on 12/10
(Miguel Corvillo). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On <st1:placename w:st="on">Guadiana</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype>
where it passes through <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city></st1:place>
one seen on 13/10 (J. Mazón) and another on 19/10 (SEO-Badajoz). At Cubilar
reservoir one seen on 18/10 (J. A. Román), 27/10 (J. Cerezo, J. Á. Herrera and <st1:place w:st="on">N. Baeza</st1:place>) and 30/10 (Juan Pablo Prieto). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Gabriel y Galán reservoir (CC) on 28/10 (C. Clemente, J. Montero, J. Prieta
and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Common
Coot</b>: More than 1,000 at Orellana reservoir (BA) on 16/10 (Á. Sánchez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Black-winged
Stilt</b>: More than 700 present on rice fields at Santa Amalia (BA) on 30/10
(F. Yuste).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-<b>
Avocet</b>: One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 01/10 (J. A. Román). One at
Brovales reservoir (BA) on 02/10 (F. Montaño). Eight at the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 28/10
(Godfried Schreur).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Stone
Curlew</b>: Roost with 150 birds at Montijo (BA) on 21/10 (P. Herrador). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Roost
with 100 birds at Mirandilla (BA) on 27/10 (Á. Sánchez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Kentish
Plover</b>: In the rice fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) 14
seen on 05/10 (J. Muddeman), 56 on 17/10 and 35 on 23/10 (M. Kelsey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Red
Knot</b>: At the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) one still present on 03/10 (F. Montaño), on
12/10 three were seen (J. Mazón and J. C. Paniagua -<i>photo</i>-), four on
13/10 (Paco Macías) and two on 21/10 (F. Montaño, J. Vázquez and J. C.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Temminck´s
Stint</b>: One at Salor reservoir, Cáceres, on 27/10 (Antonio Ceballos).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Curlew
Sandpiper</b>: One at the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 12/10 (J. Mazón and J. C.
Paniagua). Three at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 13/10 (José Ángel Sánchez).
One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 16/10 (J. Guerra). One at Morante reservoir, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city></st1:place>, on 18/10 (P.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Spotted
Redshank</b>: At the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) four seen on 03/10 (F. Montaño) and
04/10 (J. A. Román), three on 21/10 (F. Montaño, J. Vázquez and J. C. Paniagua)
and one on 23/10 (A. Vega, F. Montaño and J. Guerra). On the rice fields
between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) 50 seen on 03/10 (M. Kelsey), more
than 35 on 05/10 (J. Muddeman) and eight on 23/10 (M. Kelsey). On 05/10 one
seen at Torrealba lagoon, Torremocha (CC), and three at Sotillo reservoir,
Monroy (CC), (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo). Two at Morante reservoir, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city></st1:place>, on 18/10 (P.
Herrador). 18 seen on the rice fields of Santa Amalia (BA) on 30/10 (F. Yuste).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sandpiper</b>: Two at the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 18/10 (Francisco José Medina) and
one on 20/10 (F. Montaño and J. Vázquez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Wood
Sandpiper</b>: One at the rice fields at Riolobos (CC) on 02/10 (J. Prieta). On
the rice fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) one on 03/10 (M.
Kelsey), four on 05/10 (J. Muddeman), six on 17/10 and 15 on 23/10 (M. Kelsey).
One at the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 23/10 (A. Vega, F. Montaño and J. Guerra).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Audouin’s
Gull</b>: A juvenile at Mérida refuse tip (BA) on 14/10 (J. Guerra and M.
Gálvez -<i>photo</i>-) and on 17/10 (M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Yellow-legged
Gull</b>: At Mérida refuse tip (BA) one seen on 07/10 (M. Gálvez), two on 14/10
(J. Guerra and M. Gálvez), one on 16/10 (Á. Sánchez and Ángel Luis Sánchez),
two on 21/10 and six on 24/10 (M. Gálvez). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Alange reservoir
(BA) on 07/10 (M. Gálvez). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Six
seen at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 10/10 (Á. Sánchez, J. Guerrero and M.
Flores).At least four present at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city>
refuse tip on 19/10 (J. C. Paniagua). One on the rice fields between Palazuelo
(BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) on 23/10 (M. Kelsey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Stock
Dove</b>: 11 at El Batán (CC) on 05/10 (R. Montero). At Galisteo (CC) three
seen on 06/10 (A. Pacheco and S. Mayordomo), 16 on 14/10 and two on 27/10 (R.
Montero). 11 birds at Casatejada (CC) on 27/10 (Javier Briz and Vicente Risco).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Ring-necked
Parakeet</b>: One in the Plaza de España, Mérida (BA) on 10/10 (J. Guerra and
M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Short-eared
Owl</b>: One seen at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 12/10 (A. Cangas, E. del
Viejo, J. G. Aparicio, J. Guerra, L. Gómez and M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Wryneck</b>:
One at Plasencia (CC) on 17/10 and another at El Batán (CC) on 27/10 (R.
Montero). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At Salvatierra de los Barros (BA) one seen on 27/10 and 28/10 (F.
Montaño).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <b>Ring Ouzel</b>:
Between two and four birds at Mérida (BA) on 14/10
(J. Guerra and M. Gálvez -<i>photo</i>-). Between two and three were seen being
seen on 15, 16 and 17/10 (Á. Sánchez, Á. L. Sánchez, F. Montaño, Lorenzo
Alcántara and M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Iberian
Chiffchaff</b>: On 04/10 one seen at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) (J. Muddeman) and
another at Santa Marta de Magasca (CC) (M. Kelsey). One at Toril (CC) on 16/10
and another at Galisteo (CC) on 31/10 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Woodchat
Shrike</b>: An adult at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 10/10 (S. Pérez Gil) and
another adult on Cáceres plains on 20/10 (Carlos Fernández).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Common
Crossbill</b>: A group at Ladrillar, Las Hurdes (CC), on 03/10, on the border
with <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Salamanca</st1:city></st1:place>
province (A. Pacheco).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">FIRST
POST-BREEDING OBSERVATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <b>Greylag Goose</b>:
On 01/10 a group seen over Plasencia (CC) (Miguel
Ángel Muñoz) and four over Cáceres (GIA-Extremadura). Three birds at Moral
reservoir, Santos de Maimona (BA), on 08/10 (F. Montaño). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">49
present at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 10/10 (Á. Sánchez, Javier Guerrero and
Manolo Flores).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Merlin</b>: On 11/10 one
seen at Malpartida de Plasencia (CC) (Andrés Rodríguez), and another at
Torrefresneda (BA) (J. G. Aparicio), a female at Campo Lugar (CC) and another
at Vegas Altas (BA) (Jesús Porras).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Golden Plover</b>: One at
Fresnedillas, Oliva de Plasencia (CC), on 26/10 (S. Mayordomo).</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Water
Pipit</b>: Six around the upper plains of the <st1:place w:st="on">Guadiana</st1:place>
(BA/CC) on 05/10 (J. Muddeman). Two at Jerte reservoir, Casas del Castañar
(CC), on 07/10 (J. Prieta). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at Galisteo lagoon (CC) in 18/10
(S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Redwing</b>:
At Mérida (BA), one on 14/10 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez) and two on 16/10 (F.
Montaño). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two near Trujillo (CC) on 31/10 (M. Kelsey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Goldcrest</b>: One at Vegas de Coria
(CC) on 24/10 (A. Pacheco).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- </span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Common Starling</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One
at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 10/10 (J. Sánchez and J. L. Bautista). One at
Plasencia (CC) on 15/10 (J. Prieta). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at Alange (BA) on
16/10 (J. Guerra).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Bullfinch</b>: Two at Valcorchero,
Plasencia (CC), on 16/10 (S. Mayordomo). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at Valverde de <st1:personname productid="la Vera" w:st="on">la Vera</st1:personname> (CC) on 18/10 (D.
Langlois). Three at Villanueva de <st1:personname productid="la Vera" w:st="on">la
Vera</st1:personname> (CC) on 31/10 (D. Langlois).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SUMMER VISITORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Black Stork</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Post-breeding flocks: 12 at Brovales
reservoir (BA) on 02/10 (F. Montaño). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Seven on Canal de Las
Dehesas, Logrosán (CC), on 18/10 (J. A. Román). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">14 at Orellana reservoir (BA) on 29/10 (Ángel Sánchez
and Domingo Rivera).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Honey Buzzard</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One between Hornachos
and Campillo de Llerena (BA) on 05/10 (D. Huerta, J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and M.
Martínez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <b>Egyptian
Vulture</b>: Two at Galisteo (CC) on 04/10 (C.
Clemente and J. Mahillo). A juvenile at Monfragüe (CC) on 05/10 (M. Kelsey; M.
García del Rey -<i>photo</i>-).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Short-toed
Eagle</b>: One at Monfragüe (CC) on 16/10 (Inés García). One near the dam of
Gabriel y Galán (CC) on 25/10 (Jesús Montero). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at El
Carrascalejo (BA) on 26/10 (Jesús Solana).</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <b>Booted Eagle</b>: One at El Batán (CC) on 12/10 (R. Montero). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A
pale morph at Talavera <st1:personname productid="la Real" w:st="on">la Real</st1:personname>
(BA) on 31/10 (J. Guerra).</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- <b>Lesser Kestrel</b>: 12 seen at Santa Marta de Magasca (CC) on 04/10 (M.
Kelsey). One at Coria (CC) on 17/10 (Juan José Chaparro). One at Almendralejo
(BA) on 24/10 (J. A. Román).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Hobby</b>:
At Villanueva de <st1:personname productid="la Vera" w:st="on">la Vera</st1:personname>
(CC) three seen on 05/10 (D. Langlois and Sammy Langlois) ans just one on 10/10
(D. Langlois). One at Alía (CC) on 06/10 (J. Á. Herrera and <st1:place w:st="on">N.
Baeza</st1:place>). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Jerez de los Caballeros (BA) on 07/10 (F. Montaño). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One seen at Monfragüe (CC) on 08/10 (John
Muddeman). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Los Canchales (BA) on 12/10 (F. Lopo, J. G. Aparicio, J.
Guerra, L. Gómez and M. Gálvez). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Montehermoso (CC) on 13/10 (C. Clemente and Juan Carlos López Alvar). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Navezuelas (CC) on 17/10 (Á. Sánchez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Gull-billed Tern</b>: One at
Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 13/10 (C. Moreno, N. Franco, Ó. Llama, R. Vicente
and Y. Annicharicco).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Whiskered Tern</b>: A juvenile on the
rice fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) on 23/10 (M. Kelsey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Scops Owl</b>: One at Plasencia (CC)
on 21/10 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>European Nightjar</b>: Two between
Riomalo de Abajo and Casares de Hurdes (CC) on 03/10 (A. Pacheco). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Granadilla (CC) on 04/10 (José Casado).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Red-necked Nightjar</b>: One at
Monfragüe (CC) on 03/10 (Manolo García del Rey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>White-rumped Swift</b>: On 05/10 one
seen at Monfragüe (CC) (C. Clemente, M. Kelsey and <st1:place w:st="on">S.
Mayordomo</st1:place>) and another at Alange castle (BA) (D. Huerta, J. Guerra,
M. Gálvez and M. Martínez). Four at Monfragüe castle (CC) on 06/10 (J.
Muddeman). One at Cañamero (CC) on 09/10 (Sergio Pérez Gil).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Short-toed Lark</b>: One at Campo
Lugar (CC) on 05/10 (J. Muddeman).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Sand Martin</b>: At Galisteo lagoon
(CC) a group with other hirundines seen on 07/10 (C. Martín, J. Prieta and M.
Á. Muñoz) and another group on 16/10 (S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Barn Swallow</b>: One at Rincón de Ballesteros
(CC) on 25/10 (Francis Martín). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One seen at Ventaquemada
reservoir, Guijo de Granadilla (CC), on 26/10 (S. Mayordomo). One at Trujillo
(CC) on 31/10 (M. Kelsey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(CC) on 05/10 (J. Muddeman).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on 06/10 (S. Mayordomo). In the olive groves at Montehermoso, one seen on 07/10
and 09/10 (C. Clemente).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Yellow
Wagtail</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Three at Galisteo lagoon (CC) on 16/10
(S. Mayordomo). Two on rice fields at El Batán (CC) on 20/10 (J. Prieta and R.
Montero). One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 22/10 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Rufous Bush Robin</b>: One at Almendralejo
(BA) on días 29/09 and 30/09 (L. Alcántara). One at Montehermoso (CC) on 01/10
(C. Clemente).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Piornal (CC) on 04/10 (J. Prieta). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Bonhaval stream,
Alange (BA) on 15/10 (M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Whinchat</b>: On 20/10 one seen at El
Batán (CC) (J. Prieta and R. Montero) and another at <st1:personname productid="La Serena" w:st="on">La Serena</st1:personname> (BA) (C. Clemente,
Eva Palacios and S. Mayordomo). On 27/10 one seen at <st1:personname productid="La Serena" w:st="on">La Serena</st1:personname> (BA) (Antonio Núñez
and Vanessa de Alba) and another at Talaván (CC) (P. Herrador).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Black-eared Wheatear</b>: One at
Montehermoso (CC) on 01/10 (C. Clemente).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush</b>: One at
Salto del Gitano, Monfragüe (CC), on 02/10 (Hugo Sánchez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Sedge Warbler</b>: Two trapped for
ringing at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Salor</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Cáceres, on 02/10
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trail, Plasencia (CC), one seen on 17/10 (R. Montero and <st1:place w:st="on">S.
Mayordomo</st1:place>) and another on 31/10 (S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Warbler</b>: One trapped for ringing at Azud del Guadiana, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city>, on 19/10 (SEO-Badajoz).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Whitethroat</b>: On 04/10 one seen at
Piornal (CC) (J. Prieta) and another at Galisteo (CC) (C. Clemente and J.
Mahillo). Three at El Batán (CC) on 05/10 (R. Montero). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Alange (BA) on 07/10 (M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Garden Warbler</b>: On 03/10 two
trapped for ringing at the Sierra de <st1:personname productid="La Mosca" w:st="on">La Mosca</st1:personname>, Cáceres (GIA-Extremadura), and at least
four seen at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Matachel</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Alange (BA) (M.
Gálvez). One at Alía (CC) on 05/10 (J. Á. Herrera and <st1:place w:st="on">N.
Baeza</st1:place>). Two at Barquilla de Pinares (CC) on 20/10 (D. Langlois and
<st1:place w:st="on">S. Langlois</st1:place>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Warbler</b>: At Alange (BA) at least five seen on 15/10 (M. Gálvez) and two on
22/10 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Spotted Flycatcher</b>: At Alange
(BA) two seen on 15/10 (M. Gálvez) and another two on 16/10 (J. Guerra). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Guijo de Granadilla (CC) on 26/10 (S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pied Flycatcher</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: At Alange
(BA) at least three seen on 15/10 (M. Gálvez) and several on 16/10 (J. Guerra).
At least two in Parque de Príncipe, Cáceres, on 23/10 (M. Gálvez).</span>Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-22254705461257578462013-11-09T19:38:00.000+01:002013-11-28T19:44:15.077+01:00PICOTO: THE TRAVELLING HONEY BUZZARD – PART 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(<i>Pernis apivorus</i>), juvenile, Valle del Jerte (Cáceres), 28th August 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Picoto</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, the first
Iberian</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Honey Buzzard (<i>Pernis apivorus</i>)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">tracked by satellite, was the star of a popular </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://aves-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/picoto-el-abejero-viajero.html"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">posting in this blog<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">which attracted even the press. On that
occasion we told the story of his outward and return journeys between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Liberia</st1:country-region>
and of his travels in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
during the winter of 2012-2013. His next journey to <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>
has also been the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.seo.org/2013/09/20/picoto-el-abejero-viajero-regresa-a-africa/"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">object of attention </span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and the information obtained has been of
great interest.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Covering 365
days, </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">a complete year</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, from the first migration, the <b>time spent migrating</b> has been <b>33
days (9%)</b>, the time spent in <b>Extremadura has been 111 days (30%)</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and the period in his winter home in
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b>Liberia</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b>
forests has been no less than 221 days (61%).</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> In the two years of the study <i>Picoto</i> has occupied the same territories
and the <b>same nest</b>, demonstrating
that Honey Buzzard show a <b>great
faithfulness to both breeding and wintering areas</b>. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Notwithstanding that the information is partial,
<i>Picoto</i>’s movements in the <b>Jerte
valley</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>were limited to a <b>well-defined</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>breeding territory</b>, with some
differences between the first part of spring (May – June, in the red circle and
upper left map) compared with summer (July – August, green circle and upper
right map). At the start, contact with <i>Picoto</i>
was in the lower part of the valley, with no difference between the sunny and
shady slopes. In the later months almost all of the activity was on the sunny
slopes with a wider range of altitude, crossing the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Jerte</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>
towards the south on two occasions. Outside his territory, he only showed a
short displacement down the valley to Rebollar and once outside the Jerte
valley to Hervás.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Almost all of the contacts with <i>Picoto</i> were from within <b>Pyrenean oak woodland</b> (<i>Quercus
pyrenaica</i>), which is a habitat under much pressure in the Jerte valley,
having <b>lost much of its area and quality
over the last few decades</b>, as a result of the unstoppable spread of cherry
production. This photo of part of <i>Picoto</i>’s
territory clearly shows the high level of fragmentation of the oak woodland. Given
that <i>Picoto</i> spends seven months a
year in the Liberian forest, his problems do not end here, as in Africa also
there are threats to the forest, illegal logging for timber for example, which
are even more serious.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The post-breeding migration in 2013 was
very similar to that </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://aves-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/picoto-el-abejero-viajero.html"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">undertaken in 2012</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Picoto</span></b></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><b>left the Jerte valley on 29th
August</b>; in two days reached the Straits of Gibraltar and crossed to<b>
África on the morning of 31st August, </b>crossing the 30 kms of open sea over
the Atlantic and reaching the African coast next to Tangier. <strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">In 2012 he
crossed the straits on the morning of 1st September, just a day later</span></strong>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Between the 2<sup>nd</sup> and 7<sup>th</sup>
September <em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Picoto</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>crossed the Sahara</b>, the second
great geographic barrier that he had to encounter. After crossing the savannahs
of the <st1:place w:st="on">Sahel</st1:place> belt he entered more forested
areas. Finally on<b> 15th September he reached the wintering area</b>, the
jungles of eastern <st1:country-region w:st="on">Liberia</st1:country-region>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>after 16 days and 4,000 kms journey
</b>across <st1:country-region w:st="on">Morocco</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Algeria</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mauritania</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Mali</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Guinea</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, flying over open sea,
mountains, deserts, savannahs and forests. Since then, as in 2012, the signals
from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Liberia</st1:country-region></st1:place>
have been sporadic, presumably because the deep canopy cover of the forest
there impedes the correct working of the solar-powered transmitter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The data obtained agree with other studies
carried out in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. For example, with <b>eleven Swedish Honey Buzzards</b> tagged,
they show that the adults maintain, as does <i>Picoto</i>,
<b>small permanent territories in the
African forest</b> (stars), whilst <b>the
juveniles</b> first of all spend some time in the northern zone of the forest
belt and <b>then move in the months that
follow between 2,400 and 4,000 kms, without fixed territories or fixed travel
direction and without return to Europe during their second year </b>(Strandberg<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>et al.</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>2012).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space">P</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.migraciondeaves.org%20/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">rograma Migra</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">of SEO/BirdLife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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& Alerstam T. 2012.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Movements
of immature European Honey Buzzards <i>Pernis
apivorus</i> in tropical <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ardea
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Annotated list of the most interesting records in Extremadura in
September 2013. Compiled by Sergio Mayordomo. Translated by Martin Kelsey.</span></i><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Egyptian Goose</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: 11 seen at Sierra Brava
reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 08/09 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez). Three at Brovales
reservoir, Jerez de los Caballeros (BA), on 10/09 (Francisco Montaño).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">33 birds</span></u><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">at Cubilar reservoir, Logrosán (CC), on 14/09 (Juan
Pablo Prieto -photo).<i> The largest group ever seen in </i></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Extremadura.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Shelduck: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Three at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on
11/09 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez). At Talaván reservoir (CC) two young birds seen
on 26/09 (Javier Esteban) and 29/09 (<st1:place w:st="on">E. Palacios</st1:place>
and S. Mayordomo).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Garganey</b>:
One present at the large lagoon <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 05/09 (M. Gálvez)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Red-crested
Pochard</b>: At <st1:personname productid="La Atalaya" w:st="on">La Atalaya</st1:personname>,
Aldea del Cano (CC) a female seen on 06/09 (S. Mayordomo), five present on
22/09 (César Clemente, Jesús Solana and S. Mayordomo), three on 26/09 (J.
Guerra and M. Gálvez) and six on 29/09 (<st1:place w:st="on">E. Palacios</st1:place>
and S. Mayordomo). At the Valdelagrana pools, <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA), 30 were
present on 06/09 (Carlos González), six on 13/09 (Ángel Luis Sánchez and C. González)
and two on 24/09 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez). Two at the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 08/09
(Juan Carlos Paniagua). A female at the gravel pits at Valdefuentes, Galisteo
(CC), on 09/09 (Ricardo Montero). A female at Alange reservoir (BA) on 26/09
(J. Guerra and M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Ferruginous
DucK</b>: Two at the Torrealba pool, Torremocha (CC), on 06/09 (S. Mayordomo)
and 12/09 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>). At
the Valdelagrana pools, <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA), two were seen on 06/09 (C. González) and a male
on el 13/09 (Á. L. Sánchez and C. González). At <st1:personname productid="La Atalaya" w:st="on">La Atalaya</st1:personname>, Aldea del Cano
(CC), four males present on 22/09 (C. Clemente, J. Solana and <st1:place w:st="on">S.
Mayordomo</st1:place>) and a male on 26/09 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Black-necked
Grebe</b>: One at the Torrealba pool, Torremocha (CC), on 06/09 (S. Mayordomo)
and 12/09 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Valdelagrana pools, <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA), on días 06/09 (C. González) and 13/09 (Á. L.
Sánchez and C. González). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At
Sierra Brava reservoir, Zorita (CC), three present on 07/09, 08/09 (J. Guerra
and M. Gálvez) and 10/09 (M. Kelsey). One at Los Calles pool, Toril (CC), on
20/09 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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birds</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at Valuengo reservoir,
Jerez de los Caballeros (BA), on 18/09 (José Antonio Román).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Squacco
Heron</b>: One at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Matachel</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Alange (BA), on
06/09 (J. Guerra).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Cattle
Egret</b>: Roost of about 750 birds at Ardila River, <st1:personname productid="La Bazana" w:st="on">La Bazana</st1:personname>, Jerez de los
Caballeros (BA) on 12/09 (Juan Carlos Delgado).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Black Stork</b>: <i>Postbreeding
gatherings</i>. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11 at Arroyoconejos reservoir, Llerena (BA), on 10/09 (J. Guerra, Juan
Carlos Albero, M. Gálvez and Silvia Fernández). 15 at Torrecillas de <st1:personname productid="la Tiesa" w:st="on">la Tiesa</st1:personname> reservoir (CC) on
17/09 (John Hawkins).</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Glossy Ibis</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Three on irrigated land at
Santa Amalia (BA) on 01/09 (Fernando Yuste). One at the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 06/09 (C.
González). At Galisteo lagoon (CC) one on 18/09 (Kenet Sánchez and R. Montero),
three on 25/09 (J. Prieta -photo-) and four on 30/09 (R. Montero). On 21/09 <u>more
than 60 birds<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></u>seen at Casas
de Hitos, Madrigalejo (CC), (J. Hawkins) and one at Valdefuentes gravel pits,
Galisteo (CC), (Antolín Redondo). One at the rice fields at El Batán (CC) on
25/09 (J. Prieta). On the rice fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo Lugar
(CC) three seen on 27/09 (M. Kelsey) and on 28/09 (A. Calvo).</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Spoonbill</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: <i>Postbreeding gatherings</i>. 20 at Alange
reservoir (BA), on 02/09 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At
Los Canchales reservoir (BA) 70 seen on 03/09 (Elvira del Viejo, J. Solana, J.
Guerra and M. Gálvez) and 47 on 29/09 (E. Palacios, J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and S.
Mayordomo). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At Valuengo reservoir, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerez</st1:place></st1:city> de los Caballeros (BA), 26 birds were
seen on 06/09 and 25 on 18/09 (J. A. Román -<i>photo</i>-). At the large lagoon
at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
(BA) 22 present on 07/09 (J. C. Paniagua), 33 on 24/09 and 22 on 25/09 (J. A.
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Greater Flamingo</b>: Continued
presence of between 9 and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>56
birds</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from 05/09 (J. Guerra
and M. Gálvez) until 24/09 (Á. L. Sánchez, Á. T. Mejías, C. González, E. del
Viejo, Francis Martín, F. Montaño, J. A. Román, J. Guerra, J. C.
Paniagua, Juan Carlos Salgado, Juanma Brías, M. Gálvez, Mercedes Rodríguez,
Paco Bernáldez and Paco Macías). Nine present at the Valdelagrana pool, <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA), on 13/09 (Á.
L. Sánchez and C. González).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Goshawk</b>: One at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Tornavacas</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Pass</st1:placetype></st1:place> (CC) on 18/09 (J.
Prieta). One at Montánchez (CC) on 24/09 (Nacho Rodríguez). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A
juvenile at Alburquerque, Sierra de San Pedro (BA), on 21/09 (L. Sitges).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Two at <st1:personname productid="La Pesga" w:st="on">La Pesga</st1:personname>
(CC) on 02/09 (A. Pacheco). At Montijo reservoir, Mérida (BA), one seen on
03/09 (J. Solana), one on 12/09 (Fernando Díez) and another on 29/09 (J. Guerra
and M. Gálvez). At Alange reservoir (BA) one seen on 06/09 (J. Guerra, J. A.
Román and M. Gálvez), two on 09/09 (P. Bernáldez and P. Macías), one on 10/09
(J. Guerra, J. C. Albero, M. Gálvez and S. Fernández), one on 28/09 (E. Palacios,
J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and S. Mayordomo) and one on 29/09 (J. Guerra and M.
Gálvez). Two at Sierra Brava reservoir, Zorita (CC) one 07/09 and 08/09 (J.
Guerra and M. Gálvez). One at Cubilar reservoir, Logrosán (CC), on 14/09 (J. P.
Prieto). One at Guijo de Coria (CC) on 18/09 (K. Sánchez and R. Montero). One
at Zorita (CC) on 18/09 (Henk Zweers). One on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Guadiana</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>
passing through Mérida (BA) on 26/09 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two
at Los Canchales Reservoir (BA) on 29/09 (E. Palacios, J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and
S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Red-footed
Falcon</b>: Three present at Cornalvo Natural Park (BA) el 23/09 (Diego Recio).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Hobby</b>:
One at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Esperabán</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Pass</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Pinofranqueado (CC), on 16/09 (A.
Pacheco). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Three, 2 adults and a juvenile, at Villanueva de <st1:personname productid="La Vera" w:st="on">La Vera</st1:personname> (CC) on 24/09 (Dave
Langlois).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Coot</b>: <u>Two individuals<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></u>at
the large lagoon <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
(BA) on 05/09 (J. Guerra), one of the these had a neck collar and was still
there on 09/09 (J. C. Paniagua).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Avocet</b>:
At Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC), two seen, an adult and a juvenile, on 01/09
(Javier Briz and Vicente Risco) and one there on 09/09 (José Carlos López),
11/09 and 12/09 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez). Two in flight over Alange reservoir
(BA) on 03/09 (J. Guerra). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Morantes pool, Badajoz, on
09/09 (José Luis Bautista). Nine at <st1:personname productid="La Atalaya" w:st="on">La Atalaya</st1:personname>, Aldea del Cano (CC), on 26/09 (J. Guerra
y M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Kentish
Plover</b>: At Alange reservoir (BA) two seen on 09/09 (J. A. Román) and one on
28/09 (<st1:place w:st="on">E. Palacios</st1:place>, J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and
S. Mayordomo). One at Portaje reservoir (CC) on 11/09 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>). One on rice fields between Palazuelo (BA)
and Campo Lugar (CC) on 27/09 (M. Kelsey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Red
Knot</b>: <u>One individual</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at
the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
(BA) on 14/09 (J. C. Paniagua -<i>photo</i>-), 20/09 (E. del Viejo, P.
Bernáldez and P. Macías) and 24/09 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Temminck’s
Stint</b>: One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 06/09 (J. Guerra, J. A. Román and M.
Gálvez). One at large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 13/09 (F. Montaño). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Three
at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 29/09 (E. Palacios, J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and
S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Curlew Sandpiper</b>: Two
juveniles at Salor reservoir, Cáceres, on 06/09 (S. Mayordomo). A juvenile at
Talaván reservoir (CC) on 10/09 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S.
Mayordomo</st1:place>). Two juveniles at Portaje reservoir (CC) on 11/09 (C.
Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>). One at the
large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
(BA) on 12/09 (A. T. Mejías), 21/09 (J. C. Paniagua) and 24/09 (J. Guerra and
M. Gálvez), and three on 25/09 (J. A. Román). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at
Torrecillas de <st1:personname productid="la Tiesa" w:st="on">la Tiesa</st1:personname>
reservoir (CC) on 15/09 (J. Hawkins). A juvenile at Valdelagrana pool, <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA), on 24/09 (J.
Guerra and M. Gálvez).</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Bar-tailed Godwit</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: A juvenile at Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC), on
20/09 (J. Prieta -<i>photo</i>-), 21/09 (E. Palacios) and 25/09 (R. Montero).
Two at Talaván reservoir (CC) on 21/09 (J. Esteban).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Curlew</b>:
One at large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 05/09 (J. Guerra and M. Gálvez), 06/09 (J. C.
Salgado and M. Rodríguez), 07/09 (F. Martín and J. C. Paniagua) and 20/09 (E.
del Viejo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Spotted
Redshank</b>: At the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) four seen on 01/09 (P. Bernáldez and
P. Macías), three on 06/09 (J. C. Salgado and M. Rodríguez), one on 09/09 (A.
T. Mejías), two on 13/09 (F. Montaño) and four on 20/09 (E. del Viejo, P.
Bernáldez and P. Macías). One at the Torrealba pool, Torremocha (CC), on 06/09
(S. Mayordomo). One at Salor reservoir, Cáceres, on 10/09 (C. Clemente and S.
Mayordomo). At Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>14 birds </u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>present on 11/09 and 12/09 (J. Guerra
and M. Gálvez), two on 15/09 (J. Briz) and four on 20/09 (J. Prieta). One at
Esparragalejo pool (BA) on 25/09 (J. Guerra). One on rice fields between Palazuelo
(BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) on 27/09 (M. Kelsey). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at Alange
reservoir (BA) on 28/09 (E. Palacios, J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sandpiper:</b> Three on irrigated land at Santa Amalia (BA) on 01/09 (F.
Yuste). One at Alange reservoir (BA) on 09/09 (P. Bernáldez and P. Macías). Four
seen at the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 09/09 and one on 12/09 (A. T. Mejías). Two at
Portaje reservoir (CC) on 11/09 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S.
Mayordomo</st1:place>). One at Galisteo reservoir (CC) on 25/09 (J. Prieta). One
on rice fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) on 27/09 (M.
Kelsey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Yellow-legged
Gull</b>: At Alange reservoir (BA) an adult present on 05/09 (M. Gálvez) and an
immature on 28/09 (<st1:place w:st="on">E. Palacios</st1:place>, J. Guerra, M.
Gálvez and S. Mayordomo).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>27
birds</u>, the majority adults, at Vadecañas reservoir (CC) on 11/09 and 12/09
(J. Guerra and M. Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Whiskered
Tern</b>: At the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) one on 07/09 and three on 09/09 (J. C.
Paniagua). On 10/09 a juvenile seen at Ahigal reservoir (CC) (A. Pacheco) and
three at Brovales reservoir, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerez</st1:place></st1:city>
de los Caballeros (BA), (F. Montaño).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Black Tern</b>: One
at Brovales reservoir, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerez</st1:place></st1:city>
de los Caballeros (BA), on 10/09 (F. Montaño). Two juveniles at the large
lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
(BA) on 24/09 (J. Guerra and M.Gálvez). At Talaván reservoir (CC) a ju8venile
present on 25/09 (M. Kelsey) and 29/09 (<st1:place w:st="on">E. Palacios</st1:place>
and S. Mayordomo).</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- White-winged Black Tern</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">:<u> One</u> at Torrecillas de <st1:personname productid="la Tiesa" w:st="on">la Tiesa</st1:personname> reservoir (CC) on
09/09 (J. Hawkins -<i>photo</i>-).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Ring-necked
Parakeet</b>: One at the alcazaba in Mérida (BA) on 22/09 (Juan José Ramos
Encalado).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>European Nightjar</b>: Three
seen at the Sierra de San Serván, Mérida (BA), on 17/09 (Antonia Cangas).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Wryneck</b>:
One on banks of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Guadiana</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place> in Medellín (BA) on
09/09 (F. Yuste). One trapped for ringing at the Sierra de <st1:personname productid="la Mosca" w:st="on">La Mosca</st1:personname>, Cáceres, on 23/09
(GIA Extremadura).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Tawny
Pipit</b>: One at Torremocha (CC) on 12/09 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S.
Mayordomo</st1:place>). On the plains of Cáceres seven seen on 13/09 and four
on 25/09 (GIA Extremadura).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Tree
Pipit</b>: Two at Tornavacas Pass (CC) on 18/09 and five at Piornal (CC) on
20/09 (J. Prieta). One at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 21/09 (J. C. Paniagua). Seven seen at Jerte
reservoir, Casas del Castañar (CC) on 24/09 (J. Prieta). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Yellow Wagtail</b>: Examples of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Motacilla flava thunbergi</i>: one
at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 08/09 (J. Guerra y M. Gálvez)
and one at Portaje reservoir (CC) on 11/09 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S.
Mayordomo</st1:place>).</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Grasshopper Warbler</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One at Casar de Cáceres (CC) on 06/09 (Alberto
Sánchez -<i>photo</i>-). One impaled on barbed-wire by an Iberian Grey Shrike
at Talaván reservoir (CC) on 16/09 (Jesús Porras). One at Piornal (CC) on 20/09
(J. Prieta). Two at Arrocampo reservoir (CC) on 22/09 (A. Pacheco). One trapped
for ringing at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Salor</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Cáceres, on 24/09
(GIA Extremadura).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Sedge
Warbler</b>: Seen on <st1:placename w:st="on">Guadiana</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city></st1:place>
on 08/09 (J. C. Paniagua). Two trapped for ringing at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Salor</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
Cáceres, on 27/09 (GIA Extremadura).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Iberian
Chiffchaff</b>: One trapped for ringing at <st1:personname productid="La Lapa" w:st="on">La Lapa</st1:personname> (BA) on 01/09 (Hugo Gómez-Tejedor). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At
least one at Acehúche (CC) on 07/09 (Manuela Rodríguez). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the Sierra de <st1:personname productid="la Mosca" w:st="on">La Mosca</st1:personname>, Cáceres, one trapped
for ringing on 23/09 and another on 26/09 (GIA Extremadura). Two trapped for
ringing at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Gargáligas</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Rena (BA), on
28/09 (GIA Extremadura).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Bearded
Tit</b>: A female at Arrocampo Reservoir (CC) on 12/09 (J. Guerra and M.
Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Greylag
Goose</b>: 13 at Sierra Brava reservoir, Zorita (CC), on 07/09 and 8 at
Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 11/09 (Jose Guerra and Marc Gálvez). Five still
present at Borbollón reservoir (CC) on 15/09 (Javier Prieta). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
remaining at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 29/09 (Eva Palacios, J. Guerra, M.
Gálvez and Sergio Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Eurasian
Wigeon</b>: Three at Esparragalejo pool (BA) on 25/09 (J. Guerra). On the rice
fields between Palazuelo (BA) and Campo Lugar (CC) one on 27/09 (Martin Kelsey)
and eight on 28/09 (Antonio Calvo). On 29/09 two seen at Los Canchales
reservoir (BA) (E. Palacios, J. Guerra, M. Gálvez and S. Mayordomo), and two at
<st1:personname productid="La Atalaya" w:st="on">La Atalaya</st1:personname>,
Aldea del Cano (CC) and seven at Talaván reservoir (CC) (E. Palacios and S.
Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Red Kite</b>: In Badajoz,
one on 12/09 at Fregenal de <st1:personname productid="la Sierra" w:st="on">la
Sierra</st1:personname> (BA) (J. C. Delgado).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Hen Harrier</b>: One at Talaván
(CC) on 29/09 (<st1:place w:st="on">E. Palacios</st1:place> and S. Mayordomo).
One on Cáceres plains (CC) on 01/10 (GIA Extremadura).</span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Common Crane</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: 20 flying over Plasencia (CC) on 29/09 (Javier
Parra). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ten over Cáceres on 02/10 (Arturo Domínguez). One at Tietar River,
Malpartida de Plasencia (CC), on 03/10 (Javier Manzano and Juan Óscar
Carretero).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Stock Dove</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Two at Galisteo (CC) on 28/09 (R. Montero).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Skylark</b>:
One at El Batán (CC) on 30/09 (R. Montero).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Meadow Pipit</b>: One at
Jerte reservoir, Casas del Castañar (CC), on 24/09 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Bluethroat</b>:
On <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Salor</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Cáceres, a male captured for
ringing on 20/09 and a female on 24/09 (GIA Extremadura -<i>photo</i>-). One at
Valdefuentes gravel pits, Galisteo (CC), on 28/09 (R. Montero).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Song
Thrush</b>: Two at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Tornavacas</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Pass</st1:placetype></st1:place> (CC) on 18/09 (J.
Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Willow
Warbler</b>: One trapped for ringing at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Gargáligas</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
Rena (BA), on 28/09 (GIA Extremadura).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">LATE OBSERVATION SOF SUMMER VISITORS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Quail</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One at Valdefuentes gravel pits, Galisteo (CC), on 02/09 (S.
Mayordomo). One at Soto gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 04/09
(J.Solana). One at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
(BA) on 12/09 (A. T. Mejías).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Honey
Buzzard</b>: Two at Campo Lugar (CC) on 15/09 (A. Calvo). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Riomalo de Abajo (CC) on 27/09 (Alberto Pacheco).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Common
Swift</b>: One at Alange (BA) on 21/09 (Bernat Iglesia, J. Guerra and M.
Gálvez).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Latest
record ever in Extremadura</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Bee-eater</b>: 15 at the
Sierra de <st1:personname productid="la Mosca" w:st="on">la Mosca</st1:personname>,
Cáceres, on 11/09 (GIA Extremadura). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Several over Plasencia (CC) on 13/09 (S. Mayordomo). Two over
Monterhermoso (CC) on 19/09 (Javier Mahillo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Rufous-tailed
Rock Thrush</b>: A male at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Esperabán</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Pass</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Pinofranqueado
(CC), on 16/09 (A. Pacheco). Three, a male and two juveniles, at Montánchez
(CC) on 24/09 (N. Rodríguez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Western
Bonelli’s Warbler</b>: One at Aldea del Cano (CC) on 06/09 (S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Golden
Oriole</b>: A male at Valuento reservoir (BA) on 05/09 (J. C. Delgado). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Acehúche (CC) on 11/09 (M. Rodríguez). One at Jerez de los Caballeros (BA)
on 18/09 (J. A. Román).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">- <b>Woodchat Shrike</b>: A juvenile
at Fregenal de <st1:personname productid="la Sierra" w:st="on">la Sierra</st1:personname>
(BA) on 06/09 (J. C. Delgado). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A juvenile trapped for ringing
at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Salor</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Cáceres, on 10/09 (GIA
Extremadura). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A juvenile at Oliva de Plasencia (CC) on 15/09 (J. Prieta).</span></span></span></span></span></div>
Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-53317893071232561252013-10-01T21:26:00.000+02:002013-11-03T21:27:35.156+01:00TWO HUNDRED POSTS AND FORTY MONTHS <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Forty months have passed since
that </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2010/05/presentation.html">May in 2010 when this blog</a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> started </span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and unbelievably
we have now reached 200 posts,that is exactly five on average every month. Perhaps
now would be a good time to say a little bit about this blog which has through
199 posts been dedicated to the life and wonders of birds in Extremadura.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> During this time, based on the blog statistics, we have received almost
<b>160,000 visits</b>, a figure which has
grown from the initial visits by those closest to us. In the last twelve
months, there has been on average between <b>5,000
and 6,000 visits a month</b>, and i9ndeed sometimes we have had <b>over 8,000 visits, such as in December 2012</b>…let’s
have a look why.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is not easy to know what have been the <b>most popular themes</b>, since the
statistics only show us the visits directly for each posting and not general visits
to the blog, which is how most people may consult the blog. However, the
postings about the<span class="apple-converted-space"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/search/label/white-tailed%20eagle"> </a></span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/search/label/white-tailed%20eagle">White-tailed Eagle</a><a href="http://aves-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/search/label/pigargo%20europeo"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></a></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">are in first place </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(particularly if
you sum the visits to the two postings). After that is the post about </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2013/08/phenology-of-migrant-birds-in.html">phenology of Extremadura’s birds</a></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">written by Sergio Mayordomo posted just a few weeks
ago! It is so recent in fact that perhaps it is too early to say whether it
will overtake the admirable White-tailed Eagle! After that comes the </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2010/05/commonest-birds-in-extremadura.html">most common birds of Extremadura</a></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, the story of our dear friend the </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> <a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/choni-black-stork.html">Black Stork<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Choni</i></a></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">,</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> then the complex theme of
the </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2010/12/north-african-long-legged-buzzard-in.html">Long-legged Buzzards</a></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2010/12/north-african-long-legged-buzzard-in.html"> </a>(or whatever
they are), the </span><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2011/08/lammergeier-in-extremadura-unexpected.html"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lammergeiers</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">that travel through Extremadura and some of the </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://aves-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/search/label/resumen"> </a><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/search/label/summary">monthl</a></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/search/label/summary">y summaries</a>, </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">the most visited being March
2012. So varied themes, probably corresponding to an equally varied public -
something that pleases us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Our visitors to the Spanish version, </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">as one might expect <b>are mainly Spanish</b>. The
smaller number of foreign are mainly from (in order) <st1:country-region w:st="on"><b>United
States</b></st1:country-region><b>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></b> and, curiously, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b>Russia</b></st1:place></st1:country-region>. Lower down the list are our neighbours in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Colombia</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Argentina</st1:country-region>, and way down
the list <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
People find us using Google (more than 95%) using the key words “aves” and
“Extremadura”. In contrasts, links with other blogs yield just 1% of visits.
Looking back, it is quite nostalgic to look <a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/our-first-birthday.html">at </a></span><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/our-first-birthday.html"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the posting marking the first anniversary of the blog</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></a></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The themes
most visited in the English version were about Rüppell’s Vulture,<span class="apple-converted-space"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2010/12/north-african-long-legged-buzzard-in.html"> </a></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2010/12/north-african-long-legged-buzzard-in.html">Long-legged</a></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2010/12/north-african-long-legged-buzzard-in.html"> Buzzard</a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> Bonelli’s
Eagle</span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/alien-quails-chinese-and-japanese.html">exotic</a></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/alien-quails-chinese-and-japanese.html"> quails</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(rather
curiously),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/saker-falcon-new-species-for.html">Saker</a></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/saker-falcon-new-species-for.html"> Falcon</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and<b> monthly
summaries</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. These themes are predominately about
rare birds and notable sightings, for readers particularly <b>interested in specific and current information</b>, perhaps to plan for
a forthcoming visit. It is therefore and added satisfaction that the blog is
thus contributing towards birding holidays in Extremadura. Most visits to the
English blog are from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:country-region>
and the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>,
followed far behind by <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Even further back is <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>,
tied with <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>, <st1:city w:st="on">Holland</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sweden</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Therefore English-speaking countries predominate and those in Western Europe,
plus <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Green Woodpecker (<i>Picus viridis</i>). </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On the left, head of a male <i>viridis</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> from central <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.
</span> On the right, head of a male <i>sharpei</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from the <st1:place w:st="on">Iberian
peninsula</st1:place>. The black mask, present in the fomer, is the male
morphological difference. In both cases the female does not have red in the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>How many
species of birds are there?</b> Well it depends on which list you use and
which criteria they use to compile the list. <span lang="EN-GB">Among the many world lists of birds that are
available, the IOC<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span><b><a href="http://www.worldbirdnames.org/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">World Bird
List</span></a></b><b> </b><span lang="EN-GB">is one of those with the
most followers, being the one being kept continually up-to-date. One of the
recent changes was their validation as a full species the Iberian Green
Woodpecker <b>(<i>Picus sharpei</i></b>)<span class="apple-converted-space">- or perhaps it should just be called Iberian
Woodpecker</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">, which has
traditionally be considered as a subspecies of the Green Woodpecker (<i>Picus
viridis</i>). The scientific basis for this change are the studies of Pons<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>et al</i>. 2011 and Perktas<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>et al</i>. 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB">The use of molecular techniques has
brought about a revolution in the taxonomy (classification) of birds. Thu8s,
some Iberian species have recently been elevated to full species level, as has
been the case with the Spanish Imperial Eagle (<i>Aquila adalberti</i>), Iberian
Chiffchaff (<i>Phylloscopus ibericus</i>) and Iberian Grey Shrike (<i>Lanius
meridionalis</i>). One of the Iberian endemics most recently accepted has been
the Iberian Magpie <i>Cyanopica cooki</i>). The case of the Green Woodpecker
is less well known, although its taxonomic status has been subject to debate
for many years, indeed there are field guides which have already treated <i>sharpei </i>as a separate species in Iberia
(</span><a href="http://www.lynxeds.com/product/aves-europa"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Aves de Europa de Barthel y Dougallis</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">, 2008). However, one will need to wait to see if
other lists, including the official SEO Spanish List will also take this
proposal into consideration. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB">The main study setting out the proposed
change (Pons<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>et al</i>., 2011)
looked at <b>the evolutionary history of
the Green Woodpecker complex in the western Palaearctic</b>. The results provided evidence of three genetic
lineages, which coincided with differences in plumage, especially head pattern,
and voice. <b>A North African lineage</b>
(<i>vaillantii</i>), split about 1.6 to 2.2 million years ago, the <b>European</b> (<i>viridis</i>) and a third<b> Iberian</b> form<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(<i>sharpei</i>). These two separated
about 0.7 to 1.2 million years ago, during a glaciation, when they probably
occupied refuges in South-Eastern Europe (<st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>,
the Balkans and Anatolia) and in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iberia</st1:place></st1:country-region> respectively. Following the glaciation, both forms expanded
northwards and established contact in southern <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where today there is a
certain gradation (</span><a href="http://www.reservoirbirds.com/News.asp#New_49"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the plumages of the three forms as well as intermediates
can be seen in Copete, 2011</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">).
Neither the Iberian nor the North African forms have Spanish names. </span>Both <b>populations are highly sedentary</b>. <span lang="EN-GB">There are no ringing recoveries of Green Woodpeckers (<i>viridis</i>) in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>, nor Iberian birds in other
countries. Almost all of the controls occur at the site of ringing, with the
longest displacements being a bird from <st1:city w:st="on">Cuenca</st1:city>
recovered at the coast in Cádiz, another from <st1:city w:st="on">Ciudad Real</st1:city>
on the coast in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Valencia</st1:country-region> and
a bird from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Burgos</st1:city></st1:place>
on the Cantabrian coast (</span><a href="http://www.seo.org/RESULTADOS-SEGUIMIENTO-DE-AVES/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">SEO/BirdLife</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">The second study (Perktas<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>et al</i>. 2011) has similar
results as the former and furthermore suggests the presence of a fourth species
in the Middle-East (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region></st1:place>).
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">- J.M. Pons, G. Olioso, C. Cruaud & J. Fuchs. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">2011. Phylogeography of the Eurasian green woodpecker
(<i>Picus viridis). Journal of Biogeography, 38:311-325.</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02401.x/abstract"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">summary</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">]</span></span></div>
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- U. Perktas, G. F. Barrowclough & J. G. Groth. 2011. Phylogeography
and species limits in the green woodpecker complex (Aves: Picidae): multiple
Pleistocene refugia and range expansion across Europe and the <st1:place w:st="on">Near
East</st1:place>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>104:710-723</i>.
[</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01750.x/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+unavailable+for+approximately+4+hours+between+09%3A00+EDT+and+14%3A00+EDT+on+Saturday%2C+28+September+2013+as+we+make+upgrades+to+improve+our+services+to+you.+There+will+also+be+some+delays+to+online+publishing+between+25+to+28+September+2013.+We+apologize+for+the+inconvenience+and+appreciate+your+patience.+Thank+you+for+using+Wiley+Online+Library%21&userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage="><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">summary</span></a>]</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">- G. Olioso y J.M. Pons (2011). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;">Variation géographique du plumage des Pics verts du
<st1:state w:st="on">Languedoc</st1:state>-<st1:place w:st="on">Roussillon</st1:place>. </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Ornithos</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"> 18(2): 73-83</span></span>Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-53603456548761223822013-09-20T18:40:00.000+02:002013-09-24T18:41:29.717+02:00AUGUST 2013. Notable sightings in Extremadura<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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of the most interesting records in Extremadura in August 2013. Compiled by Sergio
Mayordomo. Translated by Martin Kelsey.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Greylag Goose</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Individual first seen in
July still present until 10/08 at Los Canchales (BA) (Carlos González). Five at
Borbollón reservoir (CC) on 21/08 (Goyo Naharro). <i>Origin from captivity
cannot be ruled out. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reservoir, Logrosán (CC), on 31/08 (César </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Clemente and Sergio Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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juveniles) at Valdecañas reservoir (CC) on 01/08 (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">C. Clemente, Javier Mahillo and <st1:place w:st="on">S.
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A female at Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC), on 13/08 (C. Clemente, J. Mahillo,
Javier Prieta and S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pochard</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: At the large
lagoon at </span><st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">La Albuera</span></st1:personname><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (BA) four seen on 03/08 (Juan Carlos
Paniagua), one on 11/08 (Paco Bernáldez and Paco Macías), five on 20/08
(Francisco Montaño and Joaquín Vázquez) and six on 31/08 (J. C. Paniagua). At <st1:personname productid="La Atalaya" w:st="on">La Atalaya</st1:personname>, Aldea del Cano
(CC), a male present on 04/08, seven birds on 15/08 (J. Solana) and 8 on 17/08
(C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A female at the Soto
gravel pits, Valverde de Mérida (BA), on 05/08 (J. Solana).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Atalaya</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, Aldea del Cano (CC), on 17/08 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and three present on 01/08 (Á. Sánchez -photo- and P. Bernáldez), 02/08 (P.
Macías), 05/08 (J. Solana), 08/08 (C. González), 16/08 (C. Clemente and S.
Mayordomo) and 25/08 (José Gómez Aparicio). On 01/08 <u>8 present</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at the <st1:personname productid="la Valluncosa" w:st="on">La Valluncosa</st1:personname> pool, Mérida
(BA), and 4 on River Aljucén, Mérida (BA) (Á. Sánchez). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two
at the Azud de <st1:personname productid="la Pesquera" w:st="on">la Pesquera</st1:personname>,
Badajoz, on 04/08 (J. C. Paniagua). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Brovales reservoir (BA) on 06/08 (Antonio Núñez, F. Montaño and
Vanessa de Alba). At least 3 at Los Canchales reservoir (BA) on 10/08 (C.
González).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>7 present<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></u>on River Guadiana in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city> on 29/08 (J. C.
Paniagua).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Egret:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One</span></u></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">at Talayuela (CC) on 29/08 (Pedro Gómez).</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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birds</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>flying over Baños de
Montemayor (CC) on 04/08 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Macías). Regular presence at the <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> lagoons (BA) between 10/08 and 27/08, with a maximum of six birds (F.
Montaño, Jerónimo Milán, Joaquín Vázquez, J. A. Román, J. C. Paniagua, P.
Bernáldez and P. Macías<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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concentrations</i>: At Los Canchales reservoir (BA) 22 seen on 05/08 (Pablo
Herrador), 76 on 10/08 (C. González), 63 on 16/08 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>) and 83 on 31/08 (A. Núñez, J. Solana and V.
de Alba). 21 present at Portaje Reservoir (CC) on 08/08 (J. Prieta and S.
Mayordomo). At the <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
lagoons (BA) more than 20 seen on 25/08 (P. Bernáldez and P. Macías), 35 on
27/08 and 26 on 31/08 (J. C. Paniagua). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">30 present at Valuengo
Reservoir (BA) on 28/08 (J. A. Román).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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01/08 (C. Clemente, J. Mahillo and S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kite</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Three present at Mirabel Refuse Tip (CC)
on 16/08 (J. Prieta). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two at <st1:personname productid="La Bazagona" w:st="on">La
Bazagona</st1:personname> (CC) on 31/08 (Raúl Guzmán).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jesús García-Baquero)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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immature</u> at the Sierra de Magacela (BA) on 21/08 (Justo Manuel García).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sánchez). At least two young birds at Las Mestas (CC) on 05/08 (Alberto
Pacheco). 2 at Guadalupe (CC) on 15/08 (Jorge Ángel Herrera). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at the Sierra de Palomera, Alía (CC) on 31/08 (J. Á. Herrera y N. Baeza).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alcántara). One at Borbollón Reservoir (CC) on 21/08 (G. Naharro). One at
Portaje Reservoir (CC) on 28/08 (S. Mayordomo). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Membrío
Reservoir (CC) on 30/08 (Ian Parsons). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On 31/08 one seen at Los Canchales (BA) (A. Núñez, J.
Solana and V. de Alba) and another at Sierra Brava (CC) (C. Clemente and S.
Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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J. Mahillo, J. Prieta and S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Las Hurdes (CC) on 12/08 (A. Pacheco).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first seen in July at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname><span class="apple-converted-space"> lagoons </span>between
03/08 and 31/08 (F. Montaño and J. C. Paniagua).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(J. Solana). One at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
lagoons (BA) on 23/08 (F. Montaño). One at </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Valuengo Reservoir (BA) on
28/08 (J. A. Román).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on 01/08 (C. Clemente, J. Mahillo and S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(C. González) and 17/08 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>).
Two at the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 25/08 (F. Montaño and J. Vázquez). Two at </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Alange
Reservoir (BA) on 25/08 (P. Bernáldez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on 17/08 (C. Clemente and S. Mayordomo), one on 25/08 (J. Gómez Aparicio) and
two on 31/08 (A. Núñez, J. Solana and V. de Alba).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(P. Bernáldez), 02/08 (P. Macías) and 08/08 (C. González), and three on 25/08
(J. Gómez Aparicio). On 01/08 two seen at Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC), and
six at Valdecañas Reservoir (CC) (C. Clemente, J. Mahillo and S. Mayordomo). At
the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname>
(BA) one present on 03/08 (J. C. Paniagua), two on 10/08 (José Antonio Álvarez),
four on 11/08 (P. Bernáldez and P. Macías), present on 16/08 (J. Milán, P.
Bernáldez and P. Macías), two on 20/08 (F. Montaño and J. Vázquez) and five on
29/08 (P. Macías). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Three at the Majadas Altas pools, Campo Lugar (CC), on 03/08
(Antonio Calvo). Five at Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC), on 04/08 (Javier Briz
and Vicente Risco). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Alange
Reservoir (BA) on 25/08 (P. Bernáldez). One at Los Canchales Reservoir (BA) on
31/08 (A. Núñez, J. Solana and V. de Alba).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Redshank</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: On 01/08 two at Charco Salado,
Casatejada (CC), and one at Valdecañas Reservoir (CC) (C. Clemente, J. Mahillo
and S. Mayordomo). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Charco Salado, Casatejada (CC), on 13/08 (C. Clemente, J.
Mahillo, J. Prieta and S. Mayordomo). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La
Albuera</st1:personname> one seen on 28/08 (P. Bernáldez) and two on 29/08 (P.
Macías). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Moheda Alta, Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 31/08 (C.
Clemente and S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sandpiper</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: At Galisteo lagoon (CC) six seen on
04/08 (Eva Palacios, J. Prieta and S. Mayordomo), two on 08/08 (J. Prieta and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>), 14 on 16/08 (J. Prieta), 15 on 22/08 and
one on 28/08 (S. Mayordomo). At Portaje Reservoir (CC) one presento n 08/08 (J.
Prieta and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>) and 28/08 (S.
Mayordomo). At least two at Esparragalejo pool (BA) on 08/08 (C. González). At
Moheda Alta, Navalvillar de Pela (BA), two seen on 10/08 (Martin Kelsey) and 10
on 31/08 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Los Canchales Reservoir (BA) on 10/08 (C. González). One at Charco Salado,
Casatejada (CC), on 13/08 (C. Clemente, J. Mahillo, J. Prieta and S.
Mayordomo). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Six at the large lagoon at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 20/08 (F.
Montaño and J. Vázquez). Four on rice fields at Santa Amalia (BA) on 22/08
(Fernando Yuste). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Alange Reservoir (BA) on 25/08 (P. Bernáldez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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One at Villalba de los Barros Reservoir (BA) on 03/08 (L. Alcántara).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on 01/08 (C. Clemente, J. Mahillo and S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alcántara). Present at the large lagoon <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 03/08 (J. C. Paniagua), one on
11/08 (P. Bernáldez and P. Macías) and four (two adults and two juveniles) on
20/08 (F. Montaño and J. Vázquez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(J. Gómez Aparicio).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first week of August (Jesús Montero).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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early August (Jesús Montero).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:placetype w:st="on">Pass</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Cabezuela del Valle
(CC), on 12/08 (Blas Molina and J. Prieta). One at <st1:personname productid="La Albuera" w:st="on">La Albuera</st1:personname> (BA) on 20/08 (F.
Montaño and J. Vázquez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pacheco).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(GIA-Extremadura). One at <st1:personname productid="La Isla" w:st="on">La Isla</st1:personname>
park, Plasencia (CC), on 25/08 (E. Palacios and S. Mayordomo). One at Piornal
(CC) on 28/08 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trapped for ringing at Azud del Guadiana, Badajoz, on 10/08 (Ángel T. Mejías,
Inmaculada Jerez, José Luis Bautista and P. Herrador).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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04/08 (E. Palacios, J. Prieta and S. Mayordomo).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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female) at Moheda Alta, Navalvillar de Pela (BA), on 31/08 (C. Clemente and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Six present at Los
Canchales Reservoir (BA) on 03/09 (Elvira del Viejo, Jesús Solana, José Guerra
and Marc Gálvez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Monfragüe (CC), on 18/08 (Ángel Sánchez).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prieta). Three at Montehermoso (CC) on 27/08 (C. Clemente).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and another at <st1:personname productid="La Roca" w:st="on">La Roca</st1:personname>
de <st1:personname productid="la Sierra" w:st="on">la Sierra</st1:personname>
(BA) (J. L. Bautista). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Galisteo (CC) on 31/08 (Ricardo Montero).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wheatear</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One at Piornal (CC) on 28/08 (J. Prieta
-photo-). One at Membrío (CC) on 30/08 (<st1:place w:st="on">I.</st1:place>
Parsons). One at Saucedilla (CC) on 01/09 (J. Briz and V. Risco). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One
at Monfragüe (CC) on 03/09 (Manuel García del Rey).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Whitethroat</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: One at River
Guadalupejo, Alía (CC), on 13/08 (J. Á. Herrera and Noelia Baeza). One in the
pines at Piornal (CC) on 21/08 (J. Prieta). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One at Galisteo lagoon
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<st1:placetype w:st="on">Pass</st1:placetype></st1:place> (CC) on 26/08 (J.
Prieta). On 31/08 two seen at Pago de San Clemente (CC) (M. Kelsey), one at
Azud del Ruecas, Logrosán (CC),and three trapped for ringing at River
Gargáligas, Rena (BA) (GIA-Extremadura).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(CC), on 14/08 (J. Á. Herrera and N. Baeza). One in song at Plasencia (CC) on
15/08 (S. Mayordomo). A possible at Sierra de <st1:personname productid="la Palomera" w:st="on">la Palomera</st1:personname>, Alía (CC), on
18/08 (J. Á. Herrera). Three at Piornal (CC) on 21/08 (J. Prieta). One at Pago
de <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Clemente</st1:place></st1:city>
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and <st1:place w:st="on">S. Mayordomo</st1:place>) and another at Vegas de
Coria (CC) (A. Pacheco). </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Four at Piornal (CC) on 09/08 (J. Prieta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prieta). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On 15/08 one seen at <st1:personname productid="La Isla" w:st="on">La Isla</st1:personname> park, Plasencia (CC),
(S. Mayordomo) and a male at Cornalvo (BA) (Á. Sánchez, Ángel Luis Sánchez and
José Ledo).</span></div>
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Cornalvo (BA) on 15/08 (J. Ledo and Á. Sánchez). Two at Piornal (CC) on 21/08
(J. Prieta). One at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Tornavacas</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Pass</st1:placetype></st1:place> (CC/AV) on 26/08 (J.
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Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-77735504556845367302013-09-09T00:54:00.000+02:002013-09-20T00:54:58.829+02:00THE SQUACCO HERON IN EXTREMADURA <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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heron census 2011, promoted by </b></span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">SEO/BirdLife<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(Garrido et al., 2012). <b>The population in Extremadura totalled only
11 pairs</b>, representing a tiny <b>0.5%
of the total Spanish population (2,075 pairs)</b>. The most important regions
were <st1:state w:st="on">Catalonia</st1:state> (50%, especially the <b>Ebro Delta), <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Valencia</st1:place></st1:country-region> (32% at the Albufera de
Valencia) and Anaadluycia (15%, Coto Doñana). The population trend in Spain is
positive</b>, with a strong increase since 1960, slowing down in the period
1990 – <st1:metricconverter productid="2002. In" w:st="on">2002. <b>In</b></st1:metricconverter><b> Extremadura, the Squacco Heron occurred in
six colonies in five localities.</b> Most of the population was of isolated
pairs within mixed colonies dominated by Cattle Egrets, the main site being the
Arrocampo reservoir with four pairs. The substrate most used was marshy
vegetation, although in several colonies the nests were built in trees or
shrubs.</span></div>
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Extremadura</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, only established
<b>since <st1:metricconverter productid="2000 in" w:st="on">2000 <span style="font-weight: normal;">in</span></st1:metricconverter><span style="font-weight: normal;"> two localities simultaneously: the reservoirs of
Arrocampo and Montijo. Breeding at </span>Arrocampo </b>has been regular since
2000, with annual records of between <b>one
and five pairs</b>, with two or three being the most frequent (in 2012 there
were two and in 2013 only one pair). At the<b>
Montijo</b> reservoir, it is similar with regular nesting since 2000, although
with fewer birds: one breeding pair from 2000 to 2006 and 1-3 pairs from 2007
to 2013. Information about other localities is very scarce. In the less
often-watched <b>Alqueva </b>reservoir <b>three nests</b> were found in two zones in
2011, with irregular breeding in earlier and later years, owing to the
fluctuating water levels (there was no breeding in 2013). At the <b>Azud de Badajoz</b>, there have been
sightings since 1990, but with no breeding suspected for a decade afterwards.
In 2011, <b>one nest</b> was confirmed,
although others may have been present, and it was the same in 2012 and 2013.
Finally, at the <b>Orellana </b>reservoir,
information is only available from <b>2011
(one nest),</b> but one has to take into account that this heronry, situated on
islands, does not assemble each year, because of variations of water level and
is also very difficult to survey.</span></div>
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previous censuses. <b>In 2000, there had
been at least five pairs in the two known colonies</b> and in <b>2011, this rose to eleven pairs</b> in six
sites. The <b>geographical expansion</b> is
evident, as in the <b>slight population
increase</b>, but presently three of the colonies are only of irregular
occupation and the figures there fluctuate greatly, possibly in relation to the
situation of colonies in Andalucía.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Although traditionally Squacco Herons are
considered as summer visitors in </span><st1:place style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Europe</st1:place><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, in
Extremadura they are possible to find throughout the year, indeed the wintering
population (of 15-25 birds) is similar or even larger than the breeding
population. In winter the species is more dispersed, is not present at roosts
and has rather secretive habits, so it is likely that the actual figures are
even greater. In the map the presence of the species in January 2011 is shown
in violet. Four of these sites are regular wintering areas, two in breeding
sites (</span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Arrocampo, Guadiana in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">)
and two in rice-growing areas (</span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Vegas Altas and Alagón</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. The largest group in winter was
nine birds on the </span><st1:placename style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Guadiana</st1:placename><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:placetype style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">River</st1:placetype><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> in </span><st1:city style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
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in wetlands throughout almost the whole region, with the largest numbers at the
end of summer and start of autumn, when individuals are dispersing from other
areas, probably mainly from Doñana. However, there are no records of ringed
birds to substantiate this. <b>The largest
group ever recorded was 19 (Guadiana river in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:place></st1:city>,</b> September 2012).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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y del Moral, J. C. (Eds.) 2012.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Las
garzas en España, población reproductora e invernante en 2010-2011 y método de
censo.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>SEO/BirdLife.
Madrid. [<a href="http://www.seo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/38garzas.pdf"><span style="color: #472e9b; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">downloa</span></a>d]</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- Aves de Extremadura.
Volúmenes 1, 2, 3 y 4. Años 1998-2008. [<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/glseocaceres/"><span style="color: #472e9b; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">downloa</span></a>d]</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Participants in the 2011 census</span><i>: Coordinadores: Javier Prieta
(Cáceres) and José María Traverso (Badajoz). Badajoz: Alfredo Mirat, Antonio
García-Ortiz, Antonio Núñez Ossorio, Carmen Galán, Casimiro Corbacho, Emilio
Costillo, Fernando Yuste, Jesús Morena, Jesús Solana, José Ángel Salas, José
Antonio Fimia, José Elías Rodríguez Vázquez, José Gordillo, José María
Traverso, Juan Antonio Barquero, Juan Carlos Paniagua, Luis Galán, María J.
García-Baquero, Patricia Gordón, Toribio Álvarez and Xurxo Piñeiro. Cáceres:
Agustín Morena, Carmelo Fernández Martínez, César Clemente, Emilio Costillo,
Helios Dalmau, Javier Briz, Francisco Javier Caballero, Javier Mahíllo, Javier
Prieta, Jerónimo Jaén, Jesús Montero, Juan Manuel Brías, Julián Panadero,
Manuel García del Rey, María José Moreno, Martín Kelsey, Sergio Mayordomo and
Vicente Risco</i></span></div>
Javier Prietahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683931694447543590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531305029155091465.post-70373952965242191262013-09-02T00:57:00.000+02:002013-09-20T01:01:50.921+02:00BOOTED EAGLES: VALIENTE AND LUNA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In 2011 the </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.migraciondeaves.org/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">MIGRA project
of SEO/BirdLife</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">started, dedicated to the study of the
migration of birds from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and using, amongst other methods, satellite transmitters to track the movements
of many individual birds. One of the first species involved was <b>Booted Eagle (<i>Aquila pennata</i>), with 15 tagged individuals </b>up to 2013 from various parts of Spain,
including four from Extremadura, as part of a project led by the Government of
Extremadura. In 2011 six birds were tracked and in 2013 it was eleven, now only
ten because of the first tagged birds, a male called Valiente, was found dead,
hit by a vehicle, a few weeks ago. The peculiarities of the first journey taken
by Luna and Valiente, the first Booted Eagles from Extremadura that were tagged
in 2011, were described before in this blog (<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://aves-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/seguimiento-de-la-migracion-de-dos.html"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">autumn journey and winter </span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://aves-extremadura.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/aguilas-calzadas-casa-vuelven.html"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #472e9b; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">spring return) </span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and so we will not repeat the details.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Valiente</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> was an adult male dark morph
Booted Eagle tagged at <st1:personname productid="La Roca" w:st="on">La Roca</st1:personname>
de <st1:personname productid="la Sierra" w:st="on">la Sierra</st1:personname>, <st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city> on 3rd August 2011 and whose transmitter continued
to show his location until <b>4th August
2013</b>, two years and a day later, when he was<b> killed on a road</b> between orchards in <b>Valdelacalzada, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city></st1:place></b>.
A cyclist discovered the corpse and was surprised to find it was ringed and
carried a yellow apparatus on its back, which he removed and returned. Domingo
Rivera and Ángel Sánchez told us of his <b>breeding
history</b> over the last three years. <b>In
2011 </b>Valiente successfully raised on his own a chick, as his mate had died
on a wire when the chick was only a week old. <b>In 2012</b>, he took over a Raven’s nest in a eucalyptus tree, paired
with a pale phase female and despite building a further two nests failed to
breed. <b>In 2013</b>, he failed to pair
and travelled in an erratic fashion over the area where he normally bred. With
respect to his migrations, the map above shows the journeys in 2011/12 and
2012/13, very similar to each other. In both cases, <b>he wintered in the same general area: once in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Niger</st1:country-region> and the other time in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:place></st1:country-region></b>.
The two-way journeys across the <st1:place w:st="on">Sahara</st1:place> showed
that the return journey was always to the west of the route taken in the
outward journey. As can be seen in the graph below, the dates did not vary
much, the <b>2012 journey was a bit earlier
than 2011</b> and he spent <b>more time in
2012 on his wintering grounds in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Niger</st1:place></st1:country-region></b>. The <b>return journeys were almost identical in terms of dates and duration</b>.
Compared with other tagged Booted Eagles, Valiente had been unusual, being the
only one with two wintering zones, one that had wintered further away (<st1:metricconverter productid="3,500 km" w:st="on">3,500 km</st1:metricconverter>) and the fastest
in its return journeys. Of the four tagged birds from Extremadura, he was the
only one that wintered in the eastern Sahel, the others staying much further to
the west, between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mali</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Mauritania</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Luna </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">is an adult female</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> dark morph, tagged in <b>Alburquerque (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:city></st1:place>)</b> on 3<sup>rd</sup> August 2011
and whose transmitter continues in operation. Domingo Rivera and Ángel Sánchez
again describe her <b>breeding history</b>
over the last three years. <b>In 2011</b>,
she raised two chicks in a nest in a eucalyptus tree. <b>In 2012</b>, she occupied the same nest, but following its collapse
because of weather conditions, she did not raise any young. <b>In 2013,</b> she moved to a new nest in a
cork oak where again she raised two chicks. With respect to migration, the map
shows the journeys made in 2011/12 and 2012/13. In both cases, she <b>wintered in the same zone between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mali</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Mauritania</st1:country-region></st1:place></b>, some <st1:metricconverter productid="2,500 km" w:st="on">2,500 km</st1:metricconverter> from the nest
site, and, as with Valiente, the outward journey was more eastern than the
return. In the graph below, the most interesting is that <b>the departure date was much earlier</b> in 2012 (5<sup>th</sup> August,
a month earlier than usual). This was not seen with the other 15 tagged birds
and in principle could have been explained by the breeding failure that year.
However, that may not have been the reason, because in 2013, Luna also departed
very early (2<sup>nd</sup> August) despite having a successful season. The
return in 2013 was also earlier than in 2012, but by only a week.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The other two Booted Eagles from Extremadura that have
been followed are a pair </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and
they breed in the <st1:placetype w:st="on">municipality</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Badajoz</st1:placename>, their names are <st1:place w:st="on"><b>Guadiana</b></st1:place><b> (male)</b> and <b>Alqueva (female)</b>. Both are pale morphs and in general their <b>migratory behaviour has been similar to
that of Luna</b>, apart from the departure dates, with similar routes and
wintering areas in the western Sahel (<st1:country-region w:st="on">Mali</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mauritania</st1:place></st1:country-region>).</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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