Friday, 28th March 2025, 11:30 a.m.
Parque Ambiental de Vilamoura, Loulé, Faro, Portugal
Neil Renwick
From the car park at the west end to the two hides and including the EDAR, which I didn't know was a different site on eBird (I wasn't using the phone app).
| 4 | Crested LarkGalerida cristata |
| X | Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto |
| X | Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis |
| X | Barn SwallowHirundo rustica |
| X | Eurasian BlackcapSylvia atricapilla |
| X | Sardinian WarblerCurruca melanocephala |
| X | Common NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos |
| X | House SparrowPasser domesticus |
| X | European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis |
| X | European SerinSerinus serinus |
| 3 | GadwallMareca strepera EDAR 1 |
| 15 | MallardAnas platyrhynchos All at EDAR 1 brood of 11 very young ducklings |
| 8 | Common PochardAythya ferina EDAR 2 males, 2 females pond to east 3 males, 1 female |
| 4 | Ferruginous DuckAythya nyroca 1 pair copulating |
| 1 | Common QuailCoturnix coturnix |
| 2 | Common WoodpigeonColumba palumbus |
| 6 | Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus |
| 6 | Eurasian CootFulica atra |
| 2 | Western SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrio |
| 1 | Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus EDAR |
| 15 | Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalus EDAR |
| 1 | Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis EDAR |
| 20 | Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus approx. - group flying over |
| 4 | Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis EDAR 1 |
| 3 | White StorkCiconia ciconia 2 on nests |
| 3 | Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo EDAR 1 |
| 1 | Little BitternBotaurus minutus |
| 1 | Grey HeronArdea cinerea |
| 1 | Booted EagleHieraaetus pennatus pale phase |
| 1 | Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus |
| 2 | Eurasian HoopoeUpupa epops |
| 5 | Iberian MagpieCyanopica cooki |
| 1 | Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes |
| 1 | Song ThrushTurdus philomelos |
| 4 | Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula |
| 12 | Black-headed WeaverPloceus melanocephalus 11+ 2 males near west end car park at least 4 males & 6 females at eastern edge of EDAR, building nests |
| 7 | Common WaxbillEstrilda astrild 7+ in 2 groups |
| 1 | Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis |
| 1 | Common ChaffinchFringilla coelebs |
| 2 | European GreenfinchChloris chloris |
| 3 | Corn BuntingEmberiza calandra |
| 1 | Melodious WarblerHippolais polyglotta seen with a chiffchaff in ditch-side vegetation, east side of EDAR |
| 1 | Common Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus |
| 2 | European Red-rumped SwallowCecropis rufula |
| 2 | Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita |
| 5 | Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti |
| 1 | Short-toed TreecreeperCerthia brachydactyla |