Welcome to the ABS Article Archives - Andalucia Bird Society

Our archives contain all articles written by members and friends of the Society. Most of the articles will also have been published in our member’s quarterly magazine ‘Birds of Andalucía’. The subjects are mostly related to birds, but other areas of general interest, fauna and flora are also included.
For our member’s convenience the archives have been arranged in indexes so that topics of interest can be found more easily.

Adding to our Archives
We are fortunate to have in our midst a number of members who enjoy producing articles of interest for publication. If you, like them, would care to donate an article for inclusion in our archive’s library, please send your copy by email attachment to the Society (abs.sociedad@gmail.com) clearly stating your name and contact details. We will accredit your name for any published articles on this website or our quarterly magazine. We hope all authors interested in the Society will help to create to this ever improving and growing resource.

About Birds

Bird of the Month – July 2020

Bonelli’s Eagle Aquila fasciata has its European stronghold in Andalucía. Rightly it is an iconic species of the region. A medium sized eagle, it is a much sought after and prized species by resident and visiting birders. Here we replicate ...

July 31, 2020 / About Birds, andalucia birds, Bonelli's Eagle, Newsflash

A Summer Birding so far..

The summer so far has seen a fairly mixed set of fortunes for my local birds. All the warblers seem to have enjoyed a good breeding season and so too our raptors (one local pair of Bonelli’s Eagle raised 2 ...

July 15, 2020 / About Birds, Newsflash

Canned Heat Birding

Virtually every morning now, the sun rises and very quickly becomes the great inhibitor to forays on foot in search of birds. For me woodlands and riverside walks are bearable early mornings, but temperatures quickly rise to make this a ...

July 11, 2020 / About Birds, Newsflash

Birding Sites

Maro-Cerro Gordo Cliff

Walking around Mediterranean dominions of Peregrine Falcon and Southeastern Spanish Ibex Facing west and overlooking the sharp Malaga coastline on the limit with the Granada province, the viewpoint on the Cerro Gordo Hill brow offers a picturesque panoramic over the ...

October 8, 2014 / Birding Sites

Montes de Málaga National Park

Let’s do a little history It was one o’clock in the morning in Málaga city on September the 24th 1907 when, while the population slept, and without one single raindrop having fallen on the city, an enormous flood of water ...

July 24, 2014 / Birding Sites

Bustards and Pinsapos

“……And beyond Osuna´s huge barren plains and steppes with several salt lagoons which shone with the sun”. With this short description Charles Edmond Boissier portrayed the view over the Guadalquivir valley from Pilar del Tolox one day at the end ...

July 23, 2014 / Birding Sites

Comparative Field Guide

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Conservation

Selling Nature Short!

SHORT TERM CUTS - LONG TERM DAMAGE TO EUROPEAN BIODIVERSITY On the occasion of the EUROPARC Federation conference 2010, September 29th- October 2nd,in the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park Italy around 300 international nature conservationists contributed to the Pescasseroli ...

October 8, 2010 / Conservation

Wetland Loss a Threat to Migrants

Wetlands Loss Endangers Birds on African-Eurasian Flyway THE HAGUE, (ENS) – One-third of the critical wetlands that migratory waterbirds need when traveling between Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia are entirely unprotected, according to the first survey using ...

July 6, 2010 / Conservation

The Plight of Lesser Kestrels

Living on the southwest coast in Andalucia certainly has its advantages when you want to go out birding. It doesn’t matter which month you step outside and search across the coastline or valleys of the sierras that almost tumble into ...

December 18, 2009 / Conservation