Green-winged teal and more @ São Jacinto (January 20 - 21)

Eurasian wigeons Anas penelope were abundant...



Eurasian teals or Common teals Anas crecca were even more abundant...



And among these there was an uncommon teal, which ended up in our captures: a 2nd cy male Green-winged teal Anas carolinensis, a North American species.



A single Common pochard Aythya ferina.



Perhaps the biggest surprise was the presence of a sleepy female Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis, another North American species and the second individual to show up at the pateira. We all remember this one, of course: http://btoringing.blogspot.pt/2014/11/portuguese-ringed-lesser-scaup-in-wales.html

Eirol landfill, Portugal (January 12, 2015)

One of two adult Herring gulls Larus argentatus present at the site.




Herring gull number two.




Ringed Mediterranean gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus, from Véron, les Prés Pendus, Yonne, FRANCE 48,07N 3,17E. One of two birds observed.




A Pied wagtail Motacilla alba yarrellii (top) and white wagtail M. a. alba (bottom).




The only signs of the young Peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus that resided at the landfill for some time (see previous posts) were 10 older remains of Black-headed Gulls Chroicocephalus ridibundus…

...and, remarkably, the remains of a 1st winter Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus. Not a common prey for a Peregrine.

Ringing garden birds in Zwolle, the Netherlands (January 4, 2015)

 

Colour-ringed Tree sparrow

With Jan van Dijk (Stichting Avifauna Zwolle). 32 birds, 9 species, one recapture:


Great tit Parus major 10

Eurasian blue tit Parus caeruleus 9 (1)

European robin Erithacus rubecula 1

Common blackbird Turdus merula 3

Goldcrest Regulus regulus 1

Dunnock Prunella modularis 2

Eurasian jay Garrulus glandarius 1

House sparrow Passer domesticus 2

Eurasian tree sparrow Passer montanus 2



Eurasian jay



Goldcrest


Happy 2015!