Sunday, 20th April 2025, 5:57 p.m.
Ria de Aveiro--frente ribeirinha de São Jacinto, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Stuart MacKay
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154 mins
3MallardAnas platyrhynchos
36Pallid SwiftApus pallidus
1Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
28WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
3Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
80DunlinCalidris alpina
1Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalus
XYellow-legged GullLarus michahellis
3Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
Exact count
XLesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
3Little TernSternula albifrons
1Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Ad. White secondaries, pale grey primaries with no hint of darker colour on outer primaries. Fishing in the river with sandwich terns and 1 common tern.
31Common TernSterna hirundo
Exact count of birds flying upriver, with 3 roosting on the buoys near the ferry terminal.
544Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
Exact count of birds flying upriver and roosting on the buoys near the ferry terminal. I think this is the highest count ever
4Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
3Little EgretEgretta garzetta
5Black KiteMilvus migrans
1Common BuzzardButeo buteo
26Sand MartinRiparia riparia
2Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
1Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula
1Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
3House SparrowPasser domesticus
2Pied Wagtail/White WagtailMotacilla alba
3European GreenfinchChloris chloris