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Wednesday 14 September 2022

14-9-2022 EL SALER, ALBUFERA - COMMON SANDPIPER (Actitis hypoleucos)




14-9-2022 EL SALER, ALBUFERA - GREATER FLAMINGO (Phoenicopterus roseus)



14-9-2022 EL SALER, ALBUFERA - CURLEW SANDPIPER (Calidris ferruginea)


The curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia.

It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australia and New Zealand. It is a vagrant to North America.

The curlew sandpiper breeds in the Siberian Arctic from the Yamal Peninsula to the Kolyuchin Bay.


This wader is highly gregarious, and will form flocks with other calidrid waders, particularly dunlin. Despite its easterly breeding range, this species is regular on passage in western Europe, presumably because of southwesterly migration route.

14-9-2022 EL PALMAR, ALBUFERA - EURASIAN MAGPIE (Pica pica)





14-9-2022 CREU DE LONGA, ALBUFERA - LESSER BLACK BACKED GULL (Larus fuscus)



14-9-2022 CREU DE LONGA, ALBUFERA - LITTLE EGRET (Egretta garzetta)



14-9-2022 CREU DE LONGA, ALBUFERA - RED SWAMP CRAYFISH (Procambarus clarkii)






14-9-2022 ULLAL DE BALDOVI, ALBUFERA - BLACK WINGED STILT (JUVENILE) (Himantopus himantopus)





Friday 9 September 2022

22-8-2022 ATHENS ZOO, GREECE - BLUE WINGED KOOKABURRA (Dacelo leachii)





7-9-2022 EL SALER, ALBUFERA - LITTLE STINT (Calidris minuta)



Its small size, fine dark bill, dark legs and quicker movements distinguish this species from all waders except the other dark-legged stints. It can be distinguished from these in all plumages by its combination of a fine bill tip, unwebbed toes and long primary projection. The call is a sharp "stit".

The breeding adult has an orange wash to the breast, a white throat and a strong white V on its back. In winter plumage identification is difficult. Juveniles have pale crown stripes and a pinkish breast.

An apparent hybrid between this species and Temminck's stint has been reported from the Netherlands.