Birds in the North of Spain: October 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Bird News of October

The best bird records of October in Burgos province.

- Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) 4 birds 07-10-10 Atapuerca lagoons (Unai Fuente).

- Black-winged Kite (Elanus caeruleus). breeding 10-10-10 Torrecilla del Monte (Alfonso Antón, Fernando Román). 5 birds 12-10-10 Zael (Fernando Román, Luis Miguel Ansola Aristondo). 3 birds 19-10-10 Los Barrios de Bureba (Fernando Mínguez Batueca).

- Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus). 4 birds 02-10-10 Tejada (Alfonso Antón).3 birds 03-10-10 Rabé de los Escuderos (Fernando Román Sancho) and 1 bird Quintanilla del Agua, with 300 Griffon Vulture (Israel Yáñez Ortega). 1 bird Quintanilla del Agua 05-10-10 (Pedro Arratibel Jáuregui). 1 bird with Griffon Vulture 09-10-10 Cebrecos (José Luis Silva Coelho). 8 birds, with 30 Griffon Vulture 17-10-10 Tejada (Alfonso Antón, Fernando Román Sancho). 1 bird 25-10-10 Quintanilla del Agua (Israel Yáñez Ortega).

- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). 1 bird 08-10-10 Páramo de Masa, between Cernégula and Villalta (Mario Alonso Blanco). 1 bird 09-10-10 Villanueva Soportilla (Jesús Mazquiarán Echauri, José Eduardo Mateos Moreno).

- Common Crane (Grus grus) 50 birds 09-10-10 Escudo mountain pass (Manuel Fabio Flechoso). 15 birds 10-10-10 Villafría (Justina Pérez Martín).

- Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) 2 birds 12-10-10 Requejo (C), Ebro water reservoir (Justina Pérez Martín, Mayte Samblás).

- European Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) 3 birds 12-10-10 Requejo (C), Ebro water reservoir (Justina Pérez Martín, Mayte Samblás).

- Little Stint (Calidris minuta). 1 bird 04-10-10 Suzana lagoons (David Martínez Andrade). 1 bird 10-10-10 Requejo-Villafría (C), Ebro water reservoir (Mario Alonso Blanco). 1 bird 12-10-10 Requejo (Justina Pérez Martín, Mayte Samblás).

- Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa). 11 birds 10-10-10 Ebro water reservoir, 6 Cabañas de Virtus 5 Requejo-Villafría (Mario Alonso Blanco). 5 birds Requejo (C) 12-10-10 (Justina Pérez Martín, Mayte Samblás).

- Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) 2 birds 12-10-10 Requejo (C), Ebro water reservoir (Justina Pérez Martín, Mayte Samblás).

- Black Tern (Chlidonias niger). 1 bird 10-10-10 Requejo-Villafría (C), Ebro water reservoir (Mario Alonso Blanco).

- Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella naevia). 2 birds 01-10-10 Villalba de Duero (Inmaculada Rojo, Víctor Salvador); 2 birds 02-10-10 Villalba de Duero (Alfonso Rodrigo, Inmaculada Rojo, Víctor Salvador).

- Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus). 1 bird 02-10-10 Villalba de Duero (Alfonso Rodrigo, Inmaculada Rojo, Víctor Salvador).

- Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria). 1 bird 27-10-10 La Yecla, Santo Domingo de Silos (Alfonso Rodrigo García); 1 bird 28-10-10 La Yecla, Santo Domingo de Silos (David González Ortega).

-Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus). 1 bird 20-10-10 Villalmanzo (Alfonso Antón). 1 bird 31-10-10 Urrez (Juan José Ramos Encalado)

Egyptian Vultures and Lammergeier

Two news about the two more spectacular Iberian vultures.
This is the link to web page of WWF and the Biodiversity Foundation that allows us to see the migration of four Egyptian Vultures from the south of the province of Burgos -Spain- to the south of Mauritania - Africa.

www.elviajedelalimoche.com

The other news is about the Lammergeier.
After many years of that disappeared of the Cantabrian Mountains, now there are a reintroduction program in Picos de Europa.
The last news, about the released birds, they are good adapting to these mountains. Here.
We hope that, again, come back to fly on Cantabrian mountains.
In the province of Burgos the last Lammergeier that bred was in 1956 La Yecla and Ortigüela, Pancorbo in 1954 and Arlanza valley in 1976. (Gonzalez, D., Román, F, Fernandez, R., Lobo, J.L. 2006 Anuario Ornitológico de la provincia de Burgos. Vol.1)
At present every year they are several records of Lammergeier in Burgos, almost all juvenile birds in dispersion from the Pyrenees.