9 September 2024: Day 3, birding in Chipiona and using to Tarifa, WINGS Spain in Autumn
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The day prior to this we went birding at native hotspots close to Chipiona. One of the most highest used to be Playa de Montijo on the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. We arrived simply after top tide so the cobbles past the sand (no longer proven above) have been uncovered but the birds have been nonetheless shut.
(embedded Google map of Playa de Montijo, Chipiona, Spain)
Since I wrote this newsletter sooner than this go back and forth, the birds proven beneath are a collection of what used to be noticed a 12 months in the past in September 2023. We noticed them!
Of the 11 species of dwelling oystercatchers, most effective the Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) has a distribution in Europe and Asia north of the equator. This is a Close to Threatened species. We noticed a number of noisy teams bowing and shouting, 25 in all.
A couple of whimbrelds fed close to the oystercatchers. Curiously the whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) has not too long ago been cut up into Eurasian whimbrel and Hudsonian whimbrel. Some taxonomic government don’t settle for the cut up and feature stored them as one species. Alas, eBird is one in every of them so I gained’t acquire this Existence Chook till eBird says adjustments its thoughts.
The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is probably the most cosmopolitan of godwits, breeding in northernmost Eurasia and Alaska and spending the wintry weather at the coasts of Africa, southern Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Its shut family members — black-tailed, Hudsonian and marbled godwits — are all New Global birds.
The typical greenshank (Tringa nebularia) resembles a better or lesser yellowlegs apart from that its legs are inexperienced. They all are within the Tringa genus.
Remaining September there used to be relatively a selection of birds in this rocky bar together with Eurasian oystercatchers, a black-bellied plover, commonplace terns and the rare-to-the-area chic tern. We noticed all of them plus a unprecedented roseate tern.
An advantage for me used to be the slender-billed gull (Chroicocephalus genei).
Nice birding from the seaside.