Portuguese trip species list

Below is a list of the birds from my recent trip to Tavira, Lagos and Castro Verde, including a brief watch from Faro station over the Rio Formosa.: in red and bold shows lifers for Portugal. Black bellied sandgrouse is a lifer for anywhere. A list in excess of 220 now posted for the whole of Portugal, as from first trip in 1999.

beach at Lagos

female black eared wheatear

pyramidal orchid

male corn bunting

woodlark

cormorant, cattle egret, little egret, grey heron, white stork, black stork, greater flamingo, mute swan, shelduck, mallard (10sp) gadwall, red crested pochard, griffon vulture, black vulture, golden eagle, short toed eagle, booted eagle, bonelli's eagle, red kite, black kite,(20sp) marsh harrier, black winged kite, montagu's harrier, common buzzard, kestrel, lesser kestrel, red legged partridge, moorhen, coot, great bustard (30sp) little bustard, avocet, black winged stilt, stone curlew, little ringed plover, ringed plover, kentish plover, grey plover, sanderling, turnstone (40sp) dunlin, curlew sandpiper, common sandpiper, greenshank, bar tailed godwit, whimbrel, black headed gull, yellow legged gull, audouin's gull, little tern (50 sp) sandwich tern, common tern, caspian tern, black bellied sandgrouse, wood pigeon, collared dove, turtle dove, great spotted cuckoo, swift, pallid swift (60 sp), hoopoe, bee eater, roller, iberian green woodpecker (heard) crested lark, thekla lark, woodlark, short toed lark, calandra lark, crag martin, swallow (70 sp) red rumped swallow, house martin, white wagtail, yellow wagtail, wren, robin, nightingale, wheatear, black eared wheatear, stonechat (80 sp) blackbird, blackcap, lesser whitethroat, sardinian warbler, whitethroat, dartford warbler (heard), zitting cisticola, savi's warbler, cetti's warbler, reed warbler (90sp) great reed warbler, bonelli's warbler, chiffchaff, great tit, blue tit, woodchat shrike, iberian grey shrike, azure winged magpie, magpie, jackdaw (100 sp) carrion crow, starling, spotless starling, golden oriole, house sparrow, spanish sparrow, chaffinch, linnet, goldfinch, greenfinch (110 sp) serin, corn bunting common waxbill