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25 June 2019

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Welcome

A very warm welcome to the Andalucia Bird Society web site.
Here you will find information on birdwatching in Andalucia. A great resource for exchanging and or getting information on many aspects of birding here in southern Spain. If you intend visiting this area, then an open and FREE forum allows you to contact locals on specific site or species information. Contribute to our database & conservation efforts by submitting your vacation trip reports and sighting records to the society.
The main site and the forum also have areas restricted to members of the society. To get even more benefits from our web activities and also be entitled to receive newsletters, quarterly magazine and attend field trips please SUPPORT US!

News

Our latest field meeting itinerary can be viewed on our forum, find out more follow this link

We are not just about birds! Why not add your observations to the Other Wildlife Board on our forum follow this link

We have now published the March 2017 rarities and welcome any additions. To see the current list follow this link

Announcements

Andalucia Bird Society in the News.

The Andalucia Bird Society now has a regular article in the free newspaper The News. Each article is about a different bird species that you will find in Andalucia.

Do you know of any county or national bird clubs, societies, organisations that might want to exchange links with us? We think we can offer their members a great resource through mutual links and able to give their members a point of contact and reference if they intend visiting Spain. Thanks, The ABS team

Members info

As many will already know we were having problems with accepting payment for memberships using PayPal. The problems are now resolved and you can now follow the registration process and use PayPal to pay for membership. If you prefer there are alternative means by which to pay, for instance we are able to accept bank transfers, so if this is a suitable alternative for you, please contact us for further details. For clear instructions using PayPal please see ABS Forum.

Do any members have either articles they want published here on the main site and or photographs we can use in our gallery? If you can contribute please use the 'contact us' form. See main menu bar above.
Note: Members can now access their own area on the main site. See main menu bar above.

Publicity

Do you own a Hotel, Guesthouse, Villa or Casa rural in Andalucia? We are able to offer a link and photograph, plus details of your accommodation if you become an affiliated member of the society. If you are interested in this offer please use the Contact ABS menu tab above.
Do you provide a service in Andalucia? Banner adverts appearing at the top of all pages available for a donation to the society.
Do you offer guiding services in Andalucia for walkers, birdwatchers, botanists, entomologists and or general nature tours? We can offer links on our web site for return links and a single free membership day tour guided by you each year. If you have an interest in this offer please use the Contact ABS menu tab above.

The ABS Birdlist Andalucía

abs cover2 The Society produces a list of all the birds that can be seen in Andalucia and it is constantly reviewed and kept up to date. An important aspect of recording bird sighting information is the consistency of the data, especially bird names. Therefore, the only bird names that are accepted in the database are those on the Societies list.

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Next field meeting

Our next field meeting will be held on the 22th of June 2019. Field Meeting Sierra de Loja, Granada Province. All actual information you can find on the forum.
We have available online many field meeting reports, which give a huge amount of information about the various sites we have visited earlier.

October 2018 - Sea Watch Tarifa and La Janda

201810 5 Cory Shearwater On a cloudy cold and windy day at 8.30am a small group of nine met our guides Frank Hair and Javi Elorriaga at the entrance to the causeway leading to Isla de Las Palomas.We went through iron gates into the island fortress to find ruined buildings and large areas of abandoned training and parade grounds which once housed over 2000 of Spain’s special forces.

October 2018 - Brazo del Este

201810 2 Greater Flamingos Defying all weather forecasts 9 hardy souls met at the Venta Casa Cachopo some 17kms south of Seville to bird parts of Isla Menor and Brazo del Este. Often better than Donana Having properly managed irrigation this area is often better than Donana, where at any time of year it is possible to see many marshland species, sometimes in their thousands.

September 2018 - Charca de Suarez, Motril

201809 1 Black crowned Night Heron The first visit by the Andalucia Bird Society to this lovely enclosed site at Charca de Suarez just west of Motril in Granada province. Greeted by light rain, sufficient to have most entering in either raincoats and/or with umbrellas, the weather soon cleared up to leave a cloudy and ever-increasing humid morning. Shame we were still carrying the now unnecessary rain gear! Given the fact that this was a very early start and a distance away from most of the regular field visit participants, it was lovely to see 17 members join me for the morning

June 2018 - Peñón de Zaframagón

  Image 1s Meeting Point: The group gathered at The Estacion Via Verde, Olvera at 09.30. We then drove in cars, parking a couple of kilometres short of the Estacion de Zaframagón.    We walked then slowly to the Estacion, temperatures heading for 30 degrees. Few birds to be seen. Across the viaduct, the water flowing some 30 meters below us. Looking up to the Peñon mountain, the large colony of Griffon vultures gave us a fine flying display as our first good siting.  

April 2018 - Punto Entinas Sabina and La Cañada de las Norias de Daza

201804 Whiskered Tern Almeria is well known for a number of things,one of them being the wind and this certainly made it's presence felt during our April field meeting. Seventeen members gathered on Saturday morning by the main lagoon at Punta Entinas Sabinar. Early arrivals were treated to very close views of two pairs of White headed Duck. There were several Black necked Grebe on the lagoon and Squacco Herons in the reeds on the far banks. Whiskered Terns flew overhead along with two Marsh Harriers.

January 2018 - Fuente de Piedra

201801 Greater Flamingo A cold morning was predicted so most of the members arrived with extra layers to wear! Having wished everyone a Happy New Year, it being the first meeting of 2018, we proceeded to follow our leader for the day, Frank Hair, down to the pond by the car park. What a difference to the last time we were here in November - plenty of water all around after recent periods of heavy rain! There was an immature Greater Flamingo stamping around in the pond for its food and plenty of Shoveler Ducks in the immediate area. Following the line of the pond around we also viewed Common Sandpiper, Coot, Common Snipe, Lapwing and several Teal and Black Winged Stilt.