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Bird watching in the Algarve, Portugal

 Look out for the male black-tailed godwit which, recent research has discovered, winters in the Algarve while its mate winters six hundred or so miles further north. Yet both arrive at the same time at their breeding ground in Iceland. How they synchronise their journeys is a great mystery.

 

bee-eater

black tailed godwit

 

Birds seen by RSPB visitors to Casa Pinheiro: avocet; bee eater; blackbird; bluethroat, white spotted; bunting, cirl; bunting, corn; bushchat, rufous; bustard, little; bustard, great; buzzard; chough; coot; cormorant; crake, baillon's; crow, carrion; cuckoo; curlew; curlew, stone; dove, stock; dove, rock; dove, turtle; duck, gadwall; duck, mallard; duck, pin-tailed; duck, pochard; duck, shoveller; duck, teal; duck, tufted; duck, wigeon; dunlin; eagle, short-toed; egret, cattle; egret, little; finch, chaffinch; finch, goldfinch; finch, greenfinch; finch, linnet; finch, serin; finch, siskin; flamingo; flycatcher, pied; flycatcher, spotted; gallinule, purple; gannet; godwit, bar tailed; godwit, black tailed; goose, greylag; grebe, great crested; grebe, little; greenshank; gull, black-headed; gull, great black backed; gull, yellow-legged; gull, lesser black-backed; gull, mediterranean; harrier, marsh; harrier, montagu's; heron, grey; heron, purple; hoopoe; jackdaw; kestrel; kestrel, lesser; kingfisher; kite, black; knot; lapwing; lark, calandra; lark, crested; lark, short-toed; lark, thekla; lark, wood; magpie, azure winged; martin, house; martin, crag; merlin; moorhen; nightingale; nightjar, red necked; oriole, golden; owl, little; oystercatcher; pheasant; pigeon; pipit, meadow; pipit, tree; plover, golden; plover, grey; plover, kentish; plover, ringed; plover, little ringed; quail; redshank; redshank, spotted; redstart, black; robin; roller; sanderling; sandpiper, common; sandpiper,; curlew; sandpiper, green; shearwater, cory's; shrike, great grey; shrike, woodchat; skua, great; snipe; sparrow, house; sparrow, rock; spoonbill; starling; starling, spotless; stilt, black-winged; stint, little; stonechat; stork, white; swallow; swallow, red-rumped; swift; swift, alpine; swift, pallid; tern, black; tern, caspian; tern, common; tern, gull-billed; tern, little; tern, sandwich; tern, whiskered; thrush, blue rock; thrush, mistle; tit, blue; tit, great; treecreeper; treecreeper, short-toed; turnstone; rufous bush chat; wagtail, grey; wagtail, pied; wagtail, white; wagtail, yellow/blue headed; wagtail, yellow; warbler, blackcap; warbler, cetti's; warbler, chiffchaff; warbler, dartford; warbler, fan-tailed; warbler, melodious; warbler, reed; warbler, sardinian; warbler, savi's; warbler, spectacled; warbler, subalpine; fan-tailed warbler, whitethroat; warbler, willow; waxbill, common; wheatear, black-eared; whimbrel; whinchat; woodpecker, great spotted; woodpecker, spanish green; woodpecker, green; wren

 

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