Rare
Birds in Spain
Identification
 Cream-coloured
Cursor Cursorius cursor breeding in mainland Spain in Spring 2001:
first European record.
This
page kindly sponsored by Cursorius website:
Original
photos by Gerjon Gelling and Anne Kuiten
Comments
by Ricard Gutiérrez
New:
a forthcoming article on this topic will appear in Birding World issue
of August 2001 (published September 2001)
On may
the 28th GG and AK were looking for bustards and sandgrouses in a now confidential
location in S Spain when they suddenly saw 6 Cream-coloured coursers (Cursorius
cursor) in a dry field next to a private land. After observing
them for a while they suddenly discovered that there was one pair with
a young (a just hatched chick). That indicated that they must had been
breeding
there. They made some photographs, which are attached.
Cream-coloured
Courser is a rarity in Spain needing homologation by the national RC. Up
to 1999 (report in print) there have been five records three in Andalusia
and two in Central Spain.
Number
of accepted records per month (n=5).
Número
de citas acceptadas por mes (n=5)
Nombre
de cites acceptades per mes (n=5)
However,
since the establishment of this web page in September 2000 there have been
at least four more records (not counting this) involving six
birds, three of those involving five birds this Spring:
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Two birds
were detected at Guadalhorce river mouth beach, Málaga, on 11.04.2001
(Blás López). This bird stayed only 15-20 minutes (according
to information given to A. Paterson).
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A bird
near Sotogrande, between Sotogrande and Alcadaisa on the beach track about
0.5km from the lighthouse and just 50 metres from a small river (Rob
Rackliffe) it stayed until 20.4.2001
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Two birds
at río Jara, Tarifa, Cádiz, on 14.4.2001 (Antonio Román
Muñoz).
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A bird
at Punta de la Banya beach on 7.10.2000 (David Bigas) might have been there
from mid September 2000 as told by the local warden (Ferran Blanch).
This Spring
influx to Spain now totalling with this record eleven birds has to be after
this record, the first-ever know case in mainland Spain. The Canary Islands
(Spain) hold a local breeding population of the nominal subspecies.
All
photos ©Gerjon Gelling and Anne Kuiten
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interest of Gerjon Gelling and Anne Kuiten made possible this web page.
El
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esta página web. L'interès de
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