Birding in Southern Portugal - May 2018

06 May 2018 – 13 July 2018

Guillaume Rethore

Visited Sites

• Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-09

    13 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    17 ind.

• Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    4 ind.

• Gadwall Mareca strepera details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Mallard Anas platyrhynchos details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Lower Arade River
  • Quinta do Lago
• Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    2 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    1 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    8 ind.

• Common Pochard Aythya ferina details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • Quinta do Lago
• Common Quail Coturnix coturnix details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    3 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    1 ind.

• Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Quinta do Lago
• Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    3 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    2 ind.

• Rock Pigeon Columba livia details  sounds
  • Sagres area
• Common Wood-Pigeon Columba palumbus details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• European Turtle-Dove Streptopelia turtur details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    2 ind.

• Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Lower Arade River
  • Quinta do Lago
• Great Bustard Otis tarda details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    12 ind.

• Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    3 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    1 ind.

• Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
• Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    2 ind.

• Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba details  sounds
  • Alto da Fóia

    2018-05-08

    1 ind.

• Common Swift Apus apus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Sagres area
  • Alto da Fóia
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Pallid Swift Apus pallidus details  sounds
  • Sagres area
• Eurasian Moorhen Gallinula chloropus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • Quinta do Lago
• Eurasian Coot Fulica atra details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Quinta do Lago
• Western Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    3 ind.

  • Lower Arade River

    2018-05-12

    3 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    2 ind.

• Eurasian Thick-knee Burhinus oedicnemus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-09

    1 ind.

• Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06	12 ind.
    2018-05-09	34 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    7 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    34 ind.

• Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-09

    3 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    8 ind.

• Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    8 ind.

• Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    ≥ 5 ind.

• Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    3 ind.

  • Lower Arade River

    2018-05-12

    2 ind.

• Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    ≥ 5 ind.

• Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
• Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-09

    1 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    2 ind.

• Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa details  sounds
  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    80 ind.

• Common Redshank Tringa totanus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    4 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    12 ind.

• Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia details  sounds
  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    1 ind.

• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    2 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    2 ind.

• Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea details  sounds
  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    4 ind.

• Sanderling Calidris alba details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    16 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    4 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    1 ind.

• Dunlin Calidris alpina details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    ≈ 125 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    ≈ 350 ind.

• Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    2 ind.

• Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    1 ind.

• Audouin's Gull Ichthyaetus audouinii details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    5 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    3 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    6 ind.

• Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Sagres area
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • Quinta do Lago
• Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • Quinta do Lago
• Little Tern Sternula albifrons details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    3 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    10 ind.

• Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    2 ind.

• Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    1 ind.

• White Stork Ciconia ciconia details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Boca do Rio

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    2 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Lower Arade River
  • Quinta do Lago
  • enroute
• Northern Gannet Morus bassanus details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    9 ind.

• European Shag Gulosus aristotelis details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

• Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus details  sounds
  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    2 ind.

• Little Egret Egretta garzetta details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-09

    4 ind.

  • Boca do Rio

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    1 ind.

  • Lower Arade River

    2018-05-12

    1 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    1 ind.

• Western Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Sagres area
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Lower Arade River
• Gray Heron Ardea cinerea details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-09

    1 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    3 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    1 ind.

  • Lower Arade River

    2018-05-12

    1 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    1 ind.

• Purple Heron Ardea purpurea details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    1 ind.

• Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    4 ind.

• Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-09

    8 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    18 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    9 ind.

• Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus details  sounds
  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    1 ind.

• Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    2 ind.

• Eurasian Griffon Gyps fulvus details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    ≥ 71 ind.

• Short-toed Snake-Eagle Circaetus gallicus details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    1 ind.

  • Lower Arade River

    2018-05-12

    2 ind.

  • enroute
• Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    3 ind.

  • enroute
• Spanish Eagle Aquila adalberti details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    2 ind.

• Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    1 ind.

  • Lower Arade River

    2018-05-12

    2 ind.

• Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    5 ind.

• Red Kite Milvus milvus details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    2 ind.

• Black Kite Milvus migrans details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    5 ind.

  • Lower Arade River

    2018-05-12

    1 ind.

• Common Buzzard Buteo buteo details  sounds
  • Alto da Fóia

    2018-05-08

    1 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    3 ind.

  • Lower Arade River

    2018-05-12

    1 ind.

• Little Owl Athene noctua details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    1 ind.

  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    1 ind.

• Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    1 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    2 ind.

  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    2 ind.

  • enroute
• European Bee-eater Merops apiaster details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Sagres area
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Lower Arade River
  • enroute
• European Roller Coracias garrulus details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    6 ind.

• Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major details  sounds
  • Boca do Rio

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

  • Monchique

    2018-05-08

    1 ind.

• Iberian Green Woodpecker Picus sharpei details  sounds
  • Monchique

    2018-05-08

    1 ind.

• Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    2 ind.

  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    2 ind.

  • Lower Arade River

    2018-05-12

    2 ind.

• Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-09

    1 ind.

• Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor (heard only)
• Iberian Gray Shrike Lanius meridionalis details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    2 ind.

  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    6 ind.

• Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius details  sounds
  • Caldas de Monchique

    2018-05-08

    1 ind.

  • enroute
• Iberian Magpie Cyanopica cooki details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Boca do Rio
  • Sagres area
  • Quinta do Lago
• Eurasian Magpie Pica pica details  sounds
  • Lagoa dos Salgados

    2018-05-10

    4 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    7 ind.

• Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax details  sounds
  • Sagres area
• Eurasian Jackdaw Corvus monedula details  sounds
  • Boca do Rio

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Carrion Crow Corvus corone details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Common Raven Corvus corax details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    2 ind.

  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    3 ind.

  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    2 ind.

• Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus details  sounds
  • Monchique

    2018-05-08

    1 ind.

• Eurasian Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus details  sounds
  • Monchique
• Great Tit Parus major details  sounds
  • Monchique
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

• Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

• Thekla's Lark Galerida theklae details  sounds
  • Sagres area
• Crested Lark Galerida cristata details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Quinta do Lago
• Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Boca do Rio
  • Sagres area
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Quinta do Lago
• Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    2 ind.

  • Alto da Fóia

    2018-05-08

    2 ind.

• Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Boca do Rio

    2018-05-07

    3 ind.

  • Lagoa dos Salgados
• Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-09

    1 ind.

  • Boca do Rio

    2018-05-07

    2 ind.

• Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Sagres area
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Quinta do Lago
• Western House-Martin Delichon urbicum details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Alto da Fóia
  • Quinta do Lago
• Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Sagres area
  • Alto da Fóia
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Quinta do Lago
  • enroute
• Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus details  sounds
  • Boca do Rio

    2018-05-07

    1 ind.

• Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti details  sounds
  • Boca do Rio
  • Lower Arade River
  • Quinta do Lago
• Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla details  sounds
  • Monchique
• Sardinian Warbler Curruca melanocephala details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Boca do Rio
  • Sagres area
  • Lower Arade River
  • Quinta do Lago

    2018-05-13

    ≥ 3 ind.

• Greater Whitethroat Curruca communis details  sounds
  • Alto da Fóia

    2018-05-08

    2 ind.

• Common Firecrest Regulus ignicapilla details  sounds
  • Monchique

    2018-05-08

    2 ind.

• Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea details  sounds
  • Monchique
• Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes details  sounds
  • Boca do Rio
  • Sagres area
  • Alto da Fóia
• Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Sagres area
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Boca do Rio
  • Sagres area
  • Monchique
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Lower Arade River
  • Quinta do Lago
• Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    1 ind.

• European Robin Erithacus rubecula details  sounds
  • Monchique
• Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos details  sounds
  • Monchique
• Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus details  sounds
  • Monchique

    2018-05-08

    1 ind.

• Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    2 ind.

• Blue Rock-Thrush Monticola solitarius details  sounds
  • Alto da Fóia

    2018-05-08

    2 ind.

• European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Boca do Rio
  • Sagres area
  • Alto da Fóia
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor

    2018-05-06

    1 ind.

• Western Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde

    2018-05-11

    2 ind.

• Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus details  sounds
  • Quinta do Lago (Introduced)
• Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild details  sounds
  • Lower Arade River (Introduced)

    2018-05-12

    1 ind.

• House Sparrow Passer domesticus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Sagres area
  • Caldas de Monchique
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Lower Arade River
  • Quinta do Lago
• Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis details  sounds
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Gray Wagtail Motacilla cinerea details  sounds
  • Caldas de Monchique

    2018-05-08

    5 ind.

• Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    ≥ 1 ind.

• Tawny Pipit Anthus campestris details  sounds
  • Sagres area

    2018-05-07

    2 ind.

• Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs details  sounds
  • Monchique
• European Greenfinch Chloris chloris details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Boca do Rio
  • Sagres area
  • Alto da Fóia
  • Caldas de Monchique
  • Quinta do Lago
• Eurasian Linnet Linaria cannabina details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Alto da Fóia
• European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis details  sounds
  • Boca do Rio
  • Alto da Fóia
  • Caldas de Monchique
  • Lagoa dos Salgados
  • ZPE Castro Verde
  • Quinta do Lago
• European Serin Serinus serinus details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Monchique
• Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra details  sounds
  • Ria de Alvor
  • Sagres area
  • ZPE Castro Verde
• Rock Bunting Emberiza cia details  sounds
  • Alto da Fóia

    2018-05-08

    3 ind.