Report on rare birds in Spain in 2003

Published:

Volume 52(1), June 2005. Pages 185-206.

Language:

Spanish

Original title:

Observaciones de aves raras en España, 2003

Abstract:

Report on rare birds in Spain in 2003. This is the 20th annual report of the Spanish Ornithological Society´s Rarities Committee. It considers 217 new records pertaining to 89 species, with an acceptance rate of 94 %. Species new to the Spanish list are those for Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus (Basque Country, year 1959), River Warbler Locustella fluviatilis (Galicia) and Booted Warbler Hippolais caligata (Balearics, 1998), as well as those for Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus (Andalucia) and Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata (Andalucia), although in the last two species on birds of unknown origin. Here included are also the second accepted records for Lesser Spotted Eagle Aquila pomarina, American Coot Fulica americana, Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius mongolus (first for the Canary Islands), White-tailed Plover Vanellus leucurus (first for the Iberian Peninsula) and Forster´s Tern Sterna forsteri, as well as the third ones for Masked Booby Sula dactylatra, White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla, Radde´s Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi, Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus and the eastern subespecies of Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator niloticus.