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Saturday 18 March 2017

FUERTEVENTURA 2017


Hoping to post a full trip report from my recent trip to Fuerteventura in the near future, but now here's a small selection of images of some of the trips highlights. Houbara Bustard, Cream-coloured Courser, Fuerteventura Chat, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Berthelot's Pipit, Stone Curlew, Desert Grey Shrike, Fuerteventura Chat,  Egyptian Vulture, Audouins Gull, Red -billed Tropicbird, Kentish Plover, Trumpeter Finch, Spoonbill, Booted Eagle, Barbary Partridge, Barbary Falcon, Subalpine Warblers,Laughing Dove, Turtle Dove, Pied Flycatcher, Canary Island Chiffchaff, Great Reed Warbler, Plain and Pallid Swift and much more. 

Sandy plains at El Cotillio

Flock of Black-bellied Sandgrouse

Berthelot's Pipit

Hoopoe

Lava Fields at El Cottilo


Black-bellied Sandgrouse


Stonecurlew

Whimbrel

A typical Barranco at Betancuria, Fantastic habitat for many warblers and migrant birds

African Blue Tit

Hoopoe

Kestrel

Laughing Dove

Painted Tiger Butterfly

Painted Lady

Sardinian Warbler

Spannish Sparrow

Turtle Dove

Rarity on Fuerteventura!!! A Yellow-browed Warbler, One of 5 seen




Audouins Gull

Barbary Partridge

Barbary Ground Squirrel

Fuerteventura Stonechat

Cory's Shearwaters passing in huge numbers off Correjalo

Cream-coloured Courser on Tindaya Plains

Los Moslinos reservoir


Hoopoe- Very common, 20+ seen daily across the Island


Houbara Bustard
Displaying male Houbara Bustard

Kentish Plover at Costa Calma beach

LIzard

Little Ringed Plover

Monarch

Monarch

Ruddy Shelducks

Desert Grey Shrike-Very common across Fuerteventura

Spoonbills at Costa Calma beach 


Spectacled Warbler

Spannish Sparrow

Black-winged Stilts at Los Moslinos Reservoir

Trumpeter Finch-Seen daily in the plains and barrancos

Tindaya Plains-Great for Houbara Bustard and Coursers

Eygptian Vulture and Raven

Yellow-legged Gull

1 comment:

  1. Fuerteventura was a revelation for me. Such a wonderful fauna and flora ... Were it not that a flight causes a huge ecological footprint, I would go back as soon as possible...
    Regards,
    Kurt Geeraerts

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