We provide a Field Meeting every month, which is a day, or sometimes two days, out at selected birding sites in Andalucia to watch and study birds and sometimes to participate in activities such as Ringing or Migration Watching. These Field meetings offer a great learning experience.
Our Field Meetings are already enjoyed by many members, however, here we have published our Field Meeting Reports so that they can be enjoyed by many more.
Cabra Field Meeting Afternoon Report During the afternoon of the November field meeting in the Cabra area, we had a very interesting presentation in a beautiful location and we were all looking forward to listening to our friend and ABS member Antonio Pestana. Project Alba, … Continue readingABS Supporting Barn Owls with Antonio Pestana
Ordinary General Assembly Andalucia Bird Society Minutes No. 20 The Ordinary General Assembly of members was convened on January 15, 2022, at the visitors centre, Fuente de Piedra. At the first call at 12.30 25 members of the society, representing 6% of the total membership … Continue readingMinutes of the ABS Ordinary General Assembly – 2022
We spent the night before in Sanlucar de Barremeda, so we were able to get to the meeting point of Bar La Campana in Bonanza, in plenty of time to meet up with all the ABS members and our guide for the day, Juan Martin … Continue readingBonanza and a fun get together for Christmas Lunch
Fifteen members met at Bar Angela in Trebujena on what promised to be a hot day’s birding, in every sense. We drove out of town into the flat plains bordering the Rio Guadalquivir. These plains are vast stretching from just south of Seville to near … Continue readingFIELD MEETING 17TH JULY – TREBUJENA
Because of travel and social restrictions imposed by the ongoing global pandemic, this was the very first ABS field meeting in 2021. The expedition, led by veteran bird guide Frank Hair, would have three main destinations: the central drainage canal in the La Janda wetlands … Continue readingField Meeting Trip Report – March 2021
Thirty-six ABS members met at 9am at the restaurant El Navasillo 12 kms south of Ronda on the San Pedro road. Two flocks of Rock Sparrows were seen flying nearby. It was exciting for us all to know we were joining birders worldwide in counting … Continue readingOctober Field Meeting – Global Bird Weekend
Thirty-five members met in Tarifa before embarking on a five location migration watch on a beautiful sunny warm day run by our Field Officer Frank Hair. Our first stop was at Trafico and soon after at the Cazalla Birds Observatory on the N340 at km87 … Continue readingField Meeting Migration Watch – 19th September 2020
Very unusually the meeting started at 20.00 on 22nd August at Cabra, a town bordering the National Park of Sierras Subbeticas, in the southern part of Cordoba province between the towns of Lucena and Priego de Cordoba. There are 4 significant ranges and we explored … Continue readingFIELD MEETING AUGUST 22nd/23rd CABRA
The Sierra de Grazalema is a ‘Parque Natural’ in the North Eastern part of Cadiz Province encompassing 51,695 hectares. It is a complex range of Sierras up to 1654 mtrs, partly tree covered but with bare rock in their higher regions with wide dry plains … Continue readingJuly Field Meeting 2020 Report
MONTAGU’S HARRIER CONSERVATION PROJECT – La Janda Area On a very hot day, 25 members came together for our first field meeting since lockdown, and we were treated to a very special sight, but more of that later. We met in Apollo 11 in the … Continue readingABS Field Meeting June 20th 2020
