Report on rare birds in Spain in 2001

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Published:

Volume 50(1), June 2003. Pages 123-149.

Language:

Spanish

Original title:

Observaciones de aves raras en España, año 2001

Abstract:

This is the 18th annual report of the Spanish Ornithological Society´s Rarities Committee. It considers 260 new records, relating to 108 species, with an acceptance rate of 84.2 %. Highlights include a record of African Crake Crex egregia in Tenerife island (Canaries), first for the Western Palearctic, and a capture of Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita in the Marismas del Guadalquivir, year 1958, unique in Europe. Here included there are also the first Spanish records of Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus (in the Canaries, of unknown origin), Kittlitz's Plover Charadrius pecuarius (Peninsular Spain), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata (Peninsular Spain) and Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor (Canaries), as well as the second or third Spanish records of Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps, King Eider Somateria spectabilis, White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla (Islas Baleares), Sora Crake Porzana carolina, Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle, Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni, Desert Warbler Sylvia nana (Canarias), Hooded Crow Corvus (corone) cornix and Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps (origin unknown). For the Canary Islands there are the first records of Caspian Tern Sterna caspia and Orphean Warbler Sylvia hortensis. Finally, also noteworthy are the six records of Cream-coloured Courser Cursorius cursor, which include the first breeding cases known so far in Europe.