Friday, 21st February 2025, 2:18 p.m.
Açude da Apariça, Castro Verde, Beja, Portugal
Jarmo Jalava
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1
33 mins
2.4 km
8Black-bellied SandgrousePterocles orientalis
2Great BustardOtis tarda
26Little BustardTetrax tetrax
2Eurasian SpoonbillPlatalea leucorodia
Adults, seen well; all white very large egret-like birds with dark spoon-shaped bills, flew across the road near the ranch (down the lane past the birding trail sign); didn't have time to get camera on them. Very unanticipated (by me, anyway) so far from the coast.
2Lesser/Common KestrelFalco naumanni/tinnunculus
1Common MagpiePica pica
6Crested LarkGalerida cristata
8Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
40Corn BuntingEmberiza calandra