Saturday, 10th May 2025, 5:58 p.m.
PN Ria Formosa--Quinta do Lago--área geral, Loulé, Faro, Portugal
Stuart Campbell
Heard but not seen: zitting cisticola, Cetti’s warbler, common reed warbler, whimbrel, European serin
| 6 | Iberian MagpieCyanopica cooki |
| 1 | Common MagpiePica pica |
| 1 | Barn SwallowHirundo rustica |
| 1 | Western House MartinDelichon urbicum |
| 2 | European Red-rumped SwallowCecropis rufula |
| 1 | Sardinian WarblerCurruca melanocephala |
| 16 | GadwallMareca strepera 8 ducklings |
| 6 | MallardAnas platyrhynchos |
| 1 | Common WoodpigeonColumba palumbus |
| 2 | Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto |
| 1 | Common SwiftApus apus |
| 8 | Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus 1 + 3 chicks |
| 3 | Western SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrio 2 chicks |
| 2 | Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus |
| 2 | Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta |
| 2 | Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola |
| 8 | Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula |
| 5 | Kentish PloverAnarhynchus alexandrinus |
| 7 | DunlinCalidris alpina |
| 4 | Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis |
| 1 | Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus |
| 1 | Little TernSternula albifrons |
| 1 | Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis |
| 3 | White StorkCiconia ciconia |
| 1 | Eurasian HoopoeUpupa epops |
| 1 | Spotless StarlingSturnus unicolor |
| 6 | Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula |
| 1 | Pied Wagtail/White WagtailMotacilla alba |
| X | Common PochardAythya ferina Good numbers here every day, certainly more than the 15 apparently deemed the normal max by eBird |
| X | Audouin's GullIchthyaetus audouinii |
| X | Black-headed WeaverPloceus melanocephalus |
| X | House SparrowPasser domesticus |