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the urban birder skip to main skip to sidebar the urban birder wednesday 27 april 2016 champions of the flyway 2016 on march 29th i was involved in this year s champions of the flyway bird race held in southern israel the whole idea was to raise money towards stopping the illegal hunting in greece team extremadura and i contributed towards raising of 70 000 of course there was birding to be had in and around eilat and into the negev desert as i arrived a few days before the race i took full advantage of the time sifting through migrants and looking up at the magnificent kettles of migrating raptors full species list is below crested honey buzzard the rarest bird of trip p urple herons a trio of glossy ibis white crowned black wheatear steppe buzzard steppe buzzards and a black kite black headed and blue headed yellow wagtails spur winged plover black eared wheatear bird list little grebe brown booby cormorant night heron cattle egret squacco heron little egret western reef egret great egret grey heron purple heron white stork black stork glossy ibis eurasian spoonbill greater flamingo common shelduck egyptian goose mallard pintail shoveler teal garganey egyptian vulture osprey lesser spotted eagle steppe eagle short toed eagle booted eagle black kite marsh harrier montagu s harrier pallid harrier long legged buzzard steppe buzzard crested honey buzzard sparrowhawk kestrel lesser kestrel hobby chukar sand partridge quail moorhen coot macqueen s bustard oystercatcher black winged stilt little ringed plover ringed plover kentish plover greater sandplover spur winged plover dunlin little stint wood sandpiper green sandpiper common sandpiper redshank greenshank marsh sandpiper black tailed godwit snipe red necked phalarope ruff arctic skua black headed gull slender billed gull baltic gull heuglin s gull sandwich tern caspian tern whiskered tern lichtenstein s sandgrouse rock dove wood pigeon collared dove turtle dove laughing dove namaqua dove european nightjar common swift pallid swift alpine swift hoopoe common kingfisher pied kingfisher european bee eater little green bee eater syrian woodpecker wryneck crested lark short toed lark desert lark sand martin rock martin swallow red rumped swallow house martin tawny pipit tree pipit red throated pipit white wagtail citrine wagtail yellow wagtail feldegg flava nightingale bluethroat common redstart northern wheatear isabelline wheatear black eared wheatear hispanica melanoleuca mourning wheatear hooded wheatear white crowned wheatear desert wheatear blackstart whinchat blackbird graceful prinia blackcap whitethroat lesser whitethroat eastern orphean warbler sardinian warbler zitting cisticola savi s warbler reed warbler olivaceous warbler eastern bonelli s warbler wood warbler chiffchaff semi collared flycatcher great tit southern grey shrike woodchat shrike masked shrike white spectacled bulbul palestine sunbird arabian babbler jay jackdaw hooded crow brown necked raven house crow tristram s starling house sparrow spanish sparrow greenfinch trumpeter finch desert finch ortolan bunting cretzschmar s bunting cinereous bunting 156 species 9 lifers heard posted by the urban birder at 06 09 73 comments friday 4 march 2016 undiscovered owls a sound approach guide magnus robb the sound approach undiscovered owls a sound approach guide for once i m not on the pulse of modern day publishing as this book was originally launched a year ago indeed i attended the launch in the netherlands it was a fascinating day of presentations by the various major contributors to the book amongst the speakers were mark constantine the main man of a sound approach killian mullarney and magnus robb all gave insightful accounts behind the initial ideas and construction of the book owls are an enigmatic family of birds how many of us regularly see owls the answer is that many of us don t with fleeting glimpses of birds flashing across car headlights being the best that many of us can attain it is true owls are not the easiest of birds to study what this book has boldly done is to present owls in a whole new light if you will excuse the rubbish pun the authors set about recording the owl species in europe north africa and the middle east and in the process they discovered new calls from species that we thought we knew well they have made the suggestion that the great grey owl of northern europe be split from the great grey owl of arctic north america and be re named lapland owl they even succeded in discovering a new owl species the omani owl the book comes replete with four cd s containing the calls of the owls a truly fascinating collection of sounds that in the engaging text are deciphered and graphically described in sonograms this is not a throwaway book that you refer to just once it is a tome that will pique interest and will draw you to explore your environs under the cover of darkness to discover the owls in your neighbourhood i applaud a sound approach for their ground breaking work undiscovered owls a sound approach guide is available from wildsounds http www wildsounds com products 4164 undiscovered owls shtml posted by the urban birder at 10 07 no comments wednesday 2 march 2016 waiting for spring in mérida so far i have been spending a fair amount of time in extremadura spain and in particular it s capital city mérida i have a lot of familiarity with the city having visited it for the past six years during that time i have amassed a city list of 72 species thus far the view from the roman bridge looking west mérida is a small city of 100 000 or so inhabitants and is essentially surrounded by countryside most tourists visit the city to see its rich roman heritage as there are plenty of ruins around not least the roman bridge the world s longest of its kind it cuts across the guadiana river seperating the old town from the more recent part of the city on the westside the view from the bridge looking east birders also come here primarily to stand on the roman bridge to search for purple gallinules foraging alongside the reedbeds it is indeed one of the best places in the whole of extremadura for this oversided moorhen looking south towards the roman bridge currently the water levels are artificially low because the local council are clearing the margins of a water hyacinth a virulent invasive alien plant that has been choking everything in its path an ancient house exposed due to the low water levels the draining has created some interesting looking muddy margins that i was hoping would have yielded a few waders instead i have only been treated to a common sandpiper once and a scarce pied wagtail or two wasteland by the iron bridge my patch is essentially the riverbank on the western side of the guadiana from the roman bridge to the iron bridge a railway bridge 1 5 miles north downstream there s an interesting area of land that is currently being churned up by bulldozers despite that there are some small areas of thick vegetation muddy puddles and piles of compost all looking very inviting to passing migrants the compost heaps have been crawling with chiffchaffs with at least 30 snapping up the insects the other day i have flushed snipe and found two little ringed plover from the muddy pools and in the vegetated bits i ve watched hawfinch sardinian warbler cetti s warbler and spanish sparrow from the iron bridge sing spotless starling and on a reeded island in the middle of the river a pair of marsh harriers display anyway here are a selection of the birds that i have seen in the last month and spring is not even here yet crag martin house martin chiffchaff crested lark blackbird corn bunting spanish sparrow serin iberian grey shrike meadow pipit a leucistic collared dove stonechat posted by the urban birder at 10 52 1 comment sunday 14 february 2016 la barrosa nr cadíz alicante spain a turnstone surveying the scene took a brief afternoon stroll around a section of la barrosa an extensive and protected salt marsh the weather was pretty dull windy with squally rain at times hardly what you would expected from southern spain 3rd cycle lesser black back aside from an array of waders like common redshank grey plover kentish plover and black winged stilt i also managed to glimpse a yellow wagtail of the iberian blue headed race an early migrant yellow legged gull greater flamingo common sandpiper yellow legged gulls lesser black back lesser black back lesser black back 3rd cycle posted by the urban birder at 10 39 2 comments saturday 16 january 2016 pompey birding happy new year everyone sorry it s taken so long to make contact but i m back for another year of great birds in fantastic locations god willing today i was spending time in portsmouth hampshire a city that i have birded in before a few years ago coastal view i took a random walk along the coastline of this island this morning to eventually end up at milton common on the east coast it was a bright though cold morning with plenty of birds around including the classic oystercatchers curlew grey plover ringed plover and dunlin a couple brent geese a few more brent goose dunnock tufted duck coot carrion crow posted by the urban birder at 13 18 no comments monday 28 december 2015 storks over my head a late afternoon walk along the roman bridge under ladened skies produced a low flying stork posted by the urban birder at 10 53 no comments marsh harrier on my mérida patch yesterday i discovered a marsh harrier harrassing the local black headed gulls and coots whilst i stood on the roman bridge marsh harrier a probable 1st year female it was always just a little too distant for decent photography but i managed to rattle off a few record shots this bird had clearly buffy forewings and head perhaps more what that a typical female would show it s not the first marsh harrier that i have seen from the bridge because i had one in mid october this year when i was co leading a tour at the time no doubt they are regular visitors red kite i also saw a couple red kite a typical winter visiting raptor to the region female stonechat finally couldn t resist snapping a stonechat they are such photogenic little birds posted by the urban birder at 01 39 6 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers blog archive 2016 5 april 1 champions of the flyway 2016 march 2 february 1 january 1 2015 58 december 9 november 10 october 4 september 1 august 12 july 2 may 1 april 7 march 3 february 5 january 4 2014 53 december 6 november 2 october 2 september 9 august 1 july 4 june 2 may 4 april 5 march 9 february 5 january 4 2013 106 december 5 november 12 october 8 september 9 august 1 july 3 june 4 may 12 april 10 march 12 february 16 january 14 2012 92 december 9 november 12 october 11 september 4 august 8 july 2 june 4 may 15 april 1 march 12 february 7 january 7 2011 109 december 8 november 8 october 8 september 9 august 8 july 9 june 11 may 5 april 14 march 11 february 10 january 8 2010 135 december 8 november 7 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