Number of rarities this month	Citations / Citaciones / Com citar
Rarity distribution this month	Rarity forecast
Search within Rare Birds in Spain	Available past reports

NEOAVES

RARITIES ONLY FOR THE CANARY ISLANDS*

See also last month news for late updates or long-stayers

NEOAVES

Presumed Hybrid Western Reef x Little Egret* Egretta gularis x garzetta (1,2)
(1) Tarragona The resident presumed hybrid of the Tancada area, Delta de l'Ebre, was seen again on 6.6 now in the usual place on the basis of the Trabucador sandbar and Tancada area (Grégory Lepoutre). See a photo below (G.Lepoutre)

Photo above: Grégory Lepoutre. 6.6.2007
(2) Sevilla A grey & white bird, probably the same seen in 2006 at Codo de la Esparraguera, Trebujena, Cádiz, was seen again on 18.6 at Veta la Palma, Doñana Natural Park, La Puebla del Río, Sevilla (José Luis Arroyo). See two thumbnails here

Rüppell's Vulture* Gyps rueppellii (1)
(1) Cádiz On 18.6 one immature was seen flying over El Pelayo, Algeciras, Cádiz (André van der Plas)

Lanner* Falco biarmicus (1-3)
(1) Gibraltar On 14.6 a juvenile was seen over Gibraltar (GONHS). 
(2) Gibraltar Perhaps the same or another was seen on 18.6 at Gibraltar (GONHS)
(3) Gibraltar A juveniles was seen arriving from Africa at 13:00 with 3 Black Kites Milvus migrans from Jews' Gate (GONHS)

Glaucous Gull* Larus hyperboreus (1,2)
(1) Asturies The 4th winter continued at Avilés harbour on 1.6 (D.L.Velasco, Miguel Rouco). See a thumbnail here
(2) Bizkaia A bird was seen on 26-27.6 at Jata dump and Lemoniz reservoir, Lemoniz, Bizkaia (Javier Elorriaga). It seems it might be the same bird reported from this area this last winter.

Royal Tern * Sterna maxima (1-2)
(1-2) Cádiz Two birds were seen flying W off Tarifa island, Cádiz, on 12.6 (Juan Ramírez, María Mateos). These sightings were produced within Migres count program.

Lesser-crested Tern * Sterna bengalensis (1,2,3-11,12-14,15)
(1) Cádiz On 2.6 there was one fishing near Tarifa island, Cádiz (Gonzalo Muñoz, Alejandro Onrubia, Pablo Barrena y Tania Saez).
(2) Cádiz On 3.6 another was seen in flight to the East off Tarifa, Cádiz (Andrés de la Cruz, David Cuenca Espinosa).
(3-11) Cádiz On 5.6, nine birds were seen flying east only 100 meters off the coast of Tarifa island, Cádiz: five with two Sandwich Terns S.sandvicensis, two more with 3 Sandwich and 2 more alone. There were probably more birds, perhaps up to 12 different (Juan Ramirez, David Cuenca Espinosa)
(12-14) Cádiz Three more were seen on 5.6 afternoon (Gonzalo Muñoz).
(15) Almeria At least one bird, possibly two, were seen flying 100 m off Rambla Morales, Cabo de Gata NP, Almeria, on 9.6 (Juan Pérez)

Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii (1-2,3,4,5)(1-2)
(1-2) Asturies On 1.6 there were 2 at Zeluán, ria de Avilés, Asturies (Daniel López Velasco, Miguel Rouco). See two photos below (D.López Velasco)The birds were still around on 4.6 (D.L.Velasco, Aurelio Álvarez Usategui, Alfonso Rodrigo).See thumbnails hereMore photos below (M.Rouco).Still present on 5.6 at the same place in company of 5 Sandwich Terns, 4 Little Terns and 80 Common Terns (Antonio Ceballos, Ana C.Narciso, Daniel López Velasco).


Photos above: Daniel López Velasco. 1.6.2007



Photos above: Miguel Rouco. 1.6.2007

(3) Cantabria The Santoña bird found in late May remained in the area on 1.6 (Alejandro García Herrera)
(4) Bizkaia Another was found at El Abra, first from Santurtzi and then from Getxo on 1.6 (Gorka Ocio). On 7.6 (Iván Sarabia), 8.6 (Iván Sarabia, Juanma Domínguez) it was seen again. Photographed on 9.6 (Ricardo Rodríguez, Lander Goñi, Xabier Remirez).

Photo above: Xabier Remirez. 9.6.2007
(5) A Coruña On 19.6 afternoon an adult breeding plumaged bird was recorded flying across Ria de Ortigueira, A Coruña (Ricardo Hevia)
(1-2) Gibraltar Two were seen flying west from Europa poimt on 27.6. 4th Gibraltar record (GONHS)
 
 

Little Swift* Apus affinis (1-11,12)
(1-11) Cádiz At least eleven birds between Chipiona and Bolonia were seen on 11.6 (Paco Chiclana).At least there were seven at Bolonia on 18.6 (André van der Plas)
(12) Sevilla A bird was at Sevilla northern sierra on 16.6 (Paco Chiclana, Manolo Villaécija)

Pied Crow Corvus albus (1)
(1) Pontevedra The bird present since 4.7.2006 at A Laxe de Rons area, O  Grove/Ogrobe, Pontevedra, Galicia was still around on 28.6, c.500m from its nest aat Boibas, Ogrobe (Cosme Damián Romai). The nest was apparently abandoned and therefore it seems that it has failed the breeding of this bird with a Carrion Crow.

RARITIES ONLY FOR THE CANARY ISLANDS*
* processing of these rarities dealt by CR/SEO, hence their inclusion here. Send putative records to Juan Antonio Lorenzo at canarias@seo.org
** check out national-wide rarities also seen in the Canary islands within the main section text, written in violet colour rather than black and marked with a dot.
 

Suggested citations / Citaciones recomendadas /Citació recomanada:

• Whole document/ Documento entero/ Document sencer: Gutiérrez,R. (ed) (year, latest update), Recent Reports: [month year]. Rare Birds in Spain. Retrieved from http://www.rarebirdspain.net/arbsr000.htm 
• e.g. Gutiérrez, R. (ed) (2002, April 3). Recent Reports: April 2002. Rare Birds in Spain.Retrieved from http://www.rarebirdspain.net/arbsr000.htm 
• Single records/ Citas sueltas/ Cites aïllades: Author (year). [Species] in Gutiérrez,R. (ed) (year, latest update), Recent Reports: [month year]. Rare Birds in Spain. Retrieved from http://www.rarebirdspain.net/arbsr000.htm 
• e.g. Rebassa, M. (2002) Great White Egret Egretta alba in Gutiérrez, R. (ed) (2002, April 3). Recent Reports: April 2002.Rare Birds in Spain. Retrieved from http://www.rarebirdspain.net/arbsr000.htm

Recent reports includes the latest sightings from the whole of Spain which are both personal observations, communications or have been released in E-Mail lists. Please contact the authors before using any photo for anything else than personal reference. Any submitted news to this page will be forwarded to the Spanish RC if enough substantiated but inclusion in this page does not imply acceptance or homologation of any kind. Gibraltar news are included thanks to Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society but this has no more implication than the sake of completeness given this area situation. Names of localities are featured as given by the authors of the records, that should be cited as those. Today news are marked with a  icon. We would welcome to receive a spare copy of those journals using these news for commercial purposes. Contact RG at address at the front page. From April 2005 only news of rarities needing homologation by the Spanish Rarities Committee are included. Reproduction of the contents of this page in commercial websites (e.g. *.com) or for commercial purposes is forbidden if not agreed in advance.. Go back to top

Citas recientes incluye las últimas novedades del conjunto del país que tanto son observaciones personales, comunicaciones al autor o noticias difundidas en listas de correo. Por favor contacten los autores para cualquier uso de las fotografias fuera del estrictamente personal.Cualquier cita que se envie a esta página sera reenviada al CR/SEO pero su inclusión aquí no implica su aceptación u homologación de ningún tipo y son responsabilidad de sus autores. Los nombres de las localidades se incluyen como son enviadas por los colaboradores, que deben ser citados como autores de las citas. Las noticias más recientes se marcan con Desde Abril de 2005 se incluyen únicamente citas de  rarezas que necesitan homologación por el Comité de Rarezas de SEO/Birdlife. La reproducción total o parcial de los contenidos de esta página está prohibida en sitios web comerciales (p.ej. *.com) si no se autoriza de antemano. Ir al inicio de la página

Cites recents inclou les darreres novetats del conjunt de l'estat que són observacions pròpies, comunicacions o noticies difoses a llistes de correu. Si us plau contacteu amb els autors de les fotos per a a qualsevol ús fora de l'estrictament personal. Qualsevol cita que sigui enviada a aquesta plana serà rebotada també al CR/SEO si bé la seva publicació aquí no implica la seva aceptació o homologació de cap mena i és responsabilitat dels seus autors. Els noms de les localitats són posats tal i com són enviats pels autors, que han de ser referenciats com a autors de les cites. Les notícies més recents són les marcades amb .Desd'Abril de 2005 únicament s'inclouen cites de rareses que necessiten homologació pel Comité de Rarezas de SEO/Birdlife.La reproducció total o parcial dels continguts d'aquesta plana és prohidia per a qualsevol lloc web de caire comercial (e.g. *.com) sinó s'ha autoritzat de forma prèvia. Tornar a l'inici de la plana.

Nueva página de producto comentado en ésta web, con pruebas en mp3:
Nova plana de producte comentat en aquesta web, amb proves en mp3:
New webpage about this product review within this website, with mp3 files too:

---

Rarity distribution
(only national rarities)

---

Previous years
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006

---

Rarity forecast
according to amount of data received per udpate

---

Number of rarities individuals per month in this website in 2005-2007

---

Latest highlights:

The Avilés Glaucous Gull, a nearly resident bird (M.Rouco).

Not all black-billed terns are Roseates. This is one of the Asturies birds though, well seen in early June (Miguel Rouco)

The Roseate Tern at El Abra on 9.6 (Xabier Remirez)

The grey & white egret at Doñana Natural Park, a presumed hybrid (J.L.Arroyo)

Back to index

Available past reports:

VIII 2000
IX 2000
X 2000
XI 2000
XII 2000

---

I 2001
II 2001
III 2001
IV 2001
V 2001
VI 2001
VII 2001
VIII 2001
IX 2001
X 2001
XI 2001
XII 2001

---

I 2002
II 2002
III 2002
IV2002
V 2002
VI 2002
VII 2002
VIII 2002
IX 2002
X 2002
 XI 2002
XII 2002

---

I 2003
II 2003
III 2003
IV 2003
V 2003
VI 2003
VII 2003
VIII 2003
IX 2003
X 2003
XI 2003
XII 2003

---

I 2004
II 2004
III 2004
IV 2004
V 2004
VI 2004
VII 2004
VIII 2004
IX 2004
X 2004
XI 2004
XII 2004

---

I 2005
II 2005
III 2005
IV 2005
V 2005
VI2005
VII 2005
VIII 2005
IX 2005
X 2005
XI 2005
XII2005

---

I 2006
 II 2006
III 2006
IV 2006
V 2006
VI 2006
VII 2006
VIII 2006
 IX 2006
X 2006
XI 2006
XII 2006

---

I 2007
II 2007
III 2007
IV 2007
V 2007
VI 2007
VII2007

---