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    Emporda reserve in NE Spain

    I know who you mean, they are regular visitors. I've met them several times, not easy to miss!
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    Emporda reserve in NE Spain

    There's a new website (since last posts in the thread) devoted to bird sightings in the region: http://www.birdingemporda.com It lists interesting (for the region) bird sightings, so it doesn't include sightings of common birds. Cheers, Aleix
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    Turku area August

    :t: Thanks, looks promising! I'll spend two weeks in July in Finland, it will be most useful! Cheers, Aleix
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    Turku area August

    Thank you very much. I found the swedish language version, which being a germanic language is a little more understandable. An English version would be really appreciated, as they have in Sweden or Norway. I have registerd and browsed, but unfortunately the webpage doesn't let you zoom unless...
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    Turku area August

    Is there any way to see the observations in English? (or languages other that Finnish) Cheers, Aleix
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    Red-Billed Leoithrix in Barcelona

    One easy spot is taking the train to Baixador de Vallvidrera stop. Leiothrix can be heard from the stop itself, and a short stroll uphill will definitively yield the species. It is 16 minutes by train from Plaça Catalunya...
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    A new species of Zoothera from the Himalaya

    A note with some photographs and recordings of the three taxa can be found at Reservoir Birds: http://www.reservoirbirds.com/News.asp#New_187
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    Ficedula

    See details and discussion for a speculigera/iberiae sighting in Catalonia on 1st May 2012 (in Spanish) at Reservoir Birds: http://www.reservoirbirds.com/Articles/RBAR_000005.pdf At the moment, the authors left as speculigera/iberiae based on comments by José Luis Copete and Ferran López, who...
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    Vinaceous Dove? Fuerteventura update

    I forwarded it to local birders and they say that it is not a Vinaceous Dove (it has clearly a white bordered narrow collar, whereas Vinaceous should have a much broader collar without a white border). In the area there are introduced African Collared Doves and Eurasian Collared Doves and...
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    SPAIN and the law relevant to wild birds

    This is the national regulation, but besides this, there are also other regulations depending on the region you are: Real Decreto 1997/1995, de 7 de diciembre, por el que se establecen medidas para contribuir a garantizar la biodiversidad mediante la conservación de los hábitats naturales y de...
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    Lanzarote, Feb '15

    Reservoir Birds http://www.reservoirbirds.com You can filter by territory, Canarias and you will obtain the latest sigthings of rare birds there. The sightings of the Canary Islands are uploaded by two local active birders, Xabier Remírez and Juan Sagardía and are updated daily. I have filtered...
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    Emporda reserve in NE Spain

    Hi, I live half an hour from Aiguamolls and visit it regularly. Lesser Grey Shrike is unfortunately definitively out. Also Great Bittern and Purple Swamphen have not bred in the last years, but some Swamphens have been released just this January. You can reach the Pyrenees in just a 2 hour...
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    Green Birding

    Although not an Green Big Year but an Green Big Day, this year the Tramuntana Birding Team with Ponç Feliu, Joan Carles Gimisó and myself, managed to get 182 species in a single calendar day, on May 1st 2014, during the Big Day competition organised by SEO-Birdlife. We believe it probably is the...
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    Menorca shearwater species

    Certainly Scopoli's and Balearic Shearwaters. But beware for the Menorcan breeding Balearic Shearwaters are a bit special, the so called "Menorcan" Shearwater, wich are Balearic Shearwaters according to DNA but really look like Yelkouan Shearwaters for they have some genetic Yelkouan...
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    Red-billed Leiothrix, Barcelona

    A very easy option is to take the Ferrrocarils de la Generalitat de Catalunya from Plaça Catalunya any of lines S1, S5, S55 and stop at Baixador Vallvidrera. You should hear them from the station just as you descend the train. Walk a little uphill and they are everywhere.
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    Green Woodpecker

    There are pictures of a male and a female at the note I mentioned in my post that can be found following this link: http://www.reservoirbirds.com/News.asp#New_49 The direct links to the hybrid picures: Male by Georges Olioso, Aude, France...
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    Green Woodpecker

    Iberian gets into France Further info at this article on Reservoir Birds website that refers to an Ornithos article dealing with this subject: http://www.reservoirbirds.com/News.asp#New_49 Apparently, pure viridis occur at Gard and Drôme, and there is a hybrid zone south of that, while at...
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    1 week Spain in November without car ?

    Hi, there are bus tours at Doñana, starting from Acebuche information center. In fact it is the only feasable way to visit the inside of the National Park. What I don't know is how to get to Acebuche information center without a car. Then El Rocío lagoon must surely be reachable by public...
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    Cadi-Moixero Park in the Spanish Pyrenees in late September

    On the following link you have an itinerary where Black Woodpecker is almost guaranteed: http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/parcsnaturals/Home/Cadi%20Moixero/Visitans/Publicacions%20informatives/Ruta%20del%20Trencapinyes/Trencapinyes_EN.pdf Besides, you have really high chances for Lammergeier and...
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    palamos

    Hi, I live in Girona, very close to Sta. Cristina d'Aro. There's a very interesting marsh called Estanys de les Escoles at Platja d'Aro, found at right hand side of the first urban roundabout as you come from Sta. Cristina d'Aro. And at less than an hour drive you have Aiguamolls de l'Empordà...
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    Finland - Guides for Owls

    If you can read Finnish: http://www.tiira.fi/index.php If not, this web aplication includes the database from Tiira and is in English, just enter the name of the species you are looking for: http://www.artportalen.se/fennoscandia_birds.asp Cheers, Aleix Comas
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    Macaronesian petrels

    Adding to Identification of these taxa: López-Velasco, D. & Sagardía J. (2012). Identificación de Petrel Gon-Gon de Desertas P. (feae) deserta y Petrel de Madeira P. madeira en el mar. Reservoir Birds, Abril de 2012. http://www.reservoirbirds.com/Articles/RBAR_000004.pdf...
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    Are there any Cretan endemic bird subspecies?

    Great! Thank you very much, now I will have something else to look for. I went to Cyprus last October and was thrilled to note the great differences the songs of Coal Tit and Short-toed Treecreper had compared with those at home. Cheers, Aleix
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    Are there any Cretan endemic bird subspecies?

    I'll be travelling to Crete next march and I am surprised that so far I haven't been able to find any info on endemic bird subspecies in Crete. The surprise comes from the fact that Crete is a very large island with mountains up to 2500 m a.s.l. and all the rest of big islands in the...
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    Finland - Guides for Owls

    Hanna Aalto based at Parikkala guided successfully a friend of mine to the Owls and other specialities he needed: http://www.ornio.net/englanti1.html
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