Bird pictures

Most of the photos here are courtesy of friends and acquaintances, I take this opportunity to thank them all again. All the photos have the reserved rights of each author, who has given them to be spread in this web page.

Asio flammeus — Short-eared owl, Isaac Fdez Galisteo

Alauda arvensis — Skylark in Castuera

birding in Extremadura — Seeing the cranes entering the roost at sunset is a real spectacle.

Corvus corone — Carrion crow

Sturnus vulgaris — Common starling

Circus aeruginosus — Western marsh harrier, Álvaro de las Heras

Melanocorypha calandra — Calandra lark

Galerida theklae — Thekla lark in Badajoz

Passer hispanoliensis — Spanish sparrow near Badajoz

Sterna hirundo — Common tern in flight

Cyrcus pigargus — Montagu’s harrier, Isaac Fdez Galisteo

Sylvia communis — Common whitethroat

Egyptian goose in Orellana lake

Accipiter nisus — Common sparrowhawk, Álvaro de las Heras

Passer montanus — Eurasian tree sparrow

Botaurus stellaris — Eurasian bittern

Tringa glareola — Wood sandpiper

Regulus regulus — Goldcrest

Regulus ignicapilla — Common firecrest

Circaetus gallicus

Sturnus unicolor — Spotless starling on top of a roof

Estrilda astrild — Common waxbill

Cisticola juncidis — Zitting cisticola in Badajoz

Podiceps nigricollis — Black-necked grebe

Tringa ochropus — Green sandpiper in Badajoz

Phoenicurus ochruros, Mediterranean mountain birds — Black redstart female in Badajoz

Aquila fasciata — Bonelli’s eagle

Tadorna tadorna — Common shelduck

Sylvia melanocephala — Sardinian warbler in Badajoz

Ptyonoprogne rupestris — Crag matin in Campo Maior

Hirundo rustica — Swallow

Motacilla flava — Yellow wagtail in Orellana, by David Ferrington

Milvus migrans — Black kite in Montánchez

Cecropis daurica — Red-rumped swallow

Columba oenas — Stock dove

Pandion haliaetus — Osprey, Álvaro de las Heras

Phalacrocorax carbo — Great cormorant in Orellana lake

Garrulus glandarius — Eurasian jay

Anas clypeata — Northern shoveler

Taeniopygia guttata — Zebra finch

Charadrius morinellus — Eurasian dotterel, Frank Vassen

Ciconia nigra — Black stork in Garcia Sola lake

Galerida theklae — Thekla Lark

Prunella collaris — Alpine accentor, Álvaro de las Heras

Anthus spinoletta — Water pipit

Luscinia svecica — Bluethroat

birding in Extremadura — Collared pratincole a little more than one meter from the shore

Lullula arborea — Woodlark, Ángel Cañones

Lymnocryptes minimus — Jack snipe, Tony Hisgett

Sylvia atricapilla — Eurasian blackcap, Ángel Cañones

Luscinia megarhynchos — Common nightingale

Aythya fuligula — Tufted duck

Saxicola torquatus — Common Stonechat male

Turdus torquatus — Ring ouzel, Frank vassen

Emberiza calandra — Corn bunting in Olivenza

Fulica atra — Eurasian coot in Badajoz

Accipiter gentilis — Goshawk, Ángel Cañones

Jynx torquilla — Eurasian wryneck, Jorge Lázaro

Tetrax tetrax — Little bustard with the Almorchón castle in the background.

Elanus caeruleus — Black winged kites love to perch in this kind of pipes

Calandrella brachydactyla — Greater short-toed lark, Ron Knight

Aquila adalberti — Spanish imperial eagle in November 2024

Tyto alba — Wester barn-owl, Ángel Cañones

Loxia curvirostra — Red crossbill

Muscicapa striata — Spotted flycatcher, Rob Zweers

Pterocles orientalis — Black bellied sandgrouses in La Albuera

Actitis hypoleucos — Common sandpiper in Badajoz

Phylloscopus collybita — Mosquitero común en Badajoz

Phalacrocorax carbo, birding in Extremadura — Cormorant photographed from the boat

Chroicocephalus ridibundus — Black headed gull in winter in Badajoz

Galerida cristata — Crested lark in Alburquerque

Monticola saxatilis — Rock thrush, Imran Shah

Grus grus — Common crane near Badajoz

Hippolais polyglotta — Melodious warbler

Pernis aviporus — European honey buzzard

Larus michahellis — Yellow-legged gull

Turdus viscivorus — Mistle thrush, Ángel Cañones

Platalea leucorodia — Eurasian Spoonbill

Tadorna ferruginea — Ruddy shelduck

Egretta alba — Great white egret in Orellana lake

Apus caffer — White-rumped swift, Derek Keats

Emberiza hortulana — Ortolan bunting, Andrej chudy

Ptyonoprogne rupestris — Crag martin, Álvaro de las Heras

Himantopus himantopus — Beautiful young specimen

Spatula clypeata — Northern shoveler in Badajoz city

Calidris alpina — Dunlin

Anthus pratensis, Mediterranean mountain birds — Meadow pipit in Olivenza

Locustella luscinioides — Savi’s warbler, Ron knight

Apus melba — Alpine swift, Álvaro de las Heras

Spatula querquedula — Garganey

Passer domesticus — House sparrow female

Circus macrourus — Pallid harrier

Recurvirostra avosetta — Pied avocet with chick

Hirundo rustica — Barn swallow in Orellana lake

Anthus Pratensis — Meadow Pipit

Sitta europaea — Eurasian nuthatch, Mariano Cordero

Aegypius monachus — Pair of Cinereous vultures in Villar del Rey

Certhia brachydactyla — Short-toed treecreeper

Egretta alba — Little egret photographed in Botswana

Grus grus — cranes in flight

Motacilla alba — White wagtail in Badajoz

Waterfowl of Extremadura — Black stork in Orellana, David Ferrington

Phoenicopterus roseus — Group of Greater flamingos resting

Montagu’s harrier male in Otistea hides

Merops apiaster — European bee eater

Larus melanocephalus — Mediterranean gull

Emberiza cia, Mediterranean mountain birds — Rock bunting in Arribes del Duero

Pterocles alchata — Pin-tailed sandgrouses in flight

Athene noctua — owl in a nest box in Sierra de Fuentes

Acrocephalus scirpaceus — Eurasian reed warbler

Charadrius alexandrinus — Kentish plover

Charadrius dubius — Little ringed plover in Orellana lake

Sylvia cantillans — Eastern subalpine warbler

Egretta garzetta — Little Egret

Phylloscopus bonelli — Western bonelli’s warbler, Chaz Jackson

Hieraaetus fasciatus — Bonelli’s eagle in Orellana lake

Anthus trivialis — Tree pipit

Otus scops — Scops owl, Ángel Cañones

Clamator glandarius — Great spotted cuckoo

Bubulcus ibis — Cattle egret

Cyanopica cooki — Azure winged magpie in Zujar island

Otis tarda, birds of Extremadura — Great bustard in December 2024

Fringilla montifringilla — Brambling

Grus grus — Common Crane young

Oenanthe oenanthe — Northern weather near Badajoz

Athene noctua — Little Owl in Alcántara

Lanius senator — Woodchat shrike in a “dehesa” of Extremadura

Phasianus colchicus — common pheasant

Top Birding — Picture taken from our boat

Saxicola torquatus — Common Stonechat female

Falco columbarius — Merlin

Erithacus rubecula — Beautiful robin

Birds of la Serena — Cranes with Almorchón Castle in the background

Acrocephalus arundinaceus — Great reed warbler

Coracias caudatus — Lilac breasted roller is gorgeous

Oenanthe Leucura — Black wheatear, Álvaro de las Heras

Picus viridis — European green woodpecker in Llera

Tringa erythropus — Spotted redshank

Coracias garrulus — European roller in Los Llanos de Cáceres

Gypaetus barbatus — Bearded vulture, Isaac Fdez Galisteo

Tringa nebularia — Greenshank in Cabeza del Buey

Marsh sandpiper

Calidris ferruginea — Curlew sandpiper, Kev Chapman

Platalea leucorodia — Spatula in Orellana lake in spring

Oenante hispánica — Western black-eared wheatear, Álvaro de las Heras

Vanellus vanellus — Peewit

Phylloscopus ibericus — Iberian chiffchaff, Ferrán Pestaña

Motacilla cinerea — Grey wagtail

Delichon urbicum — House martin in a bridge of García Sola lake

Cecropis daurica — Red-rumped swallow, Imran Shah

birding in Orellana — White stork in Orellana lake

Circaetus gallicus — Short toed snake eagle in Alcántara

Podiceps cristatus — Great crested grebe in La Albuera

birds of Arribes del Duero — Black stork

Ardeola ralloides — Squacco heron in Badajoz dam

Top birding Extremadura

Gyps fulvus — Griffon vulture in Hinojosa de Duero

Larus fuscus — Lesser black backed gull in Orellana lake

Chloris chloris — Greenfinch in Roca de la Sierra

Burhinus oedicnemus — The stone curlew is another of the birds that can be observed from the boat.

Lanius meridionalis, Mediterranean mountain birds — Iberian grey shrike

Bubo bubo — Eurasian eagle-owl, Ángel Cañones

Sitta europaea — Nuthatch in a nest box

Turdus merula — Common blackbird in a park

Bubo bubo — Eurasian eagle-owl

Cercotrichas galactotes — Rufous-tailed scrub robin

Porzana parva — Little crake, Frans Vandewalle

Periparus ater — Coal tit

Falco peregrinus — Peregrin falcon in flight, Pierre Marie Epiney

Ciconia ciconia — Couple of white storks

Birds of Senegal — The pink backed pelican is one of the most famous birds of Senegal

Cettia cetti — Cetti’s warbler

Aquila adalberti — Imperial eagle, Ángel Cañones

Lophophanes cristatus — European crested tit, Ángel Cañones

Tringa totanus — Common redshank

Circus aeruginosus — Marsh Harrier, a regular at Extremadura lakes

Sylvia borin — Garden warbler, Billy Lindblom

Podiceps cristatus, waterfowl of Extremadura — Great crested grebe in Orellana, David Ferrington

Gallinago gallinago — Common snipe

Limosa limosa — Black-tailed godwit, Álvaro de las Heras

Caprimulgus ruficollis — Red-necked nightjar

Lanius meridionalis — Iberian grey shrike in Gargáligas

Anas platyrhynchos — Mallard, Manuel Martin

Streptopelia decaocto — Eurasian collared dove in Campo Maior, near Badajoz

Corvus monedula — Jackdaw in Orellana lake

Fulica atra — Eurasian coot

Pernis apivorus — European honey buzzard, Álvaro de las Heras

Falco peregrinus — Peregrine falcon in Garcia Sola

Ficedula hypoleuca — European pied flycatcher

Curruca conspicillata — Spectacled warbler, Frank vassen

Riparia riparia — Sand martin

Tachybaptus ruficollis — Little grebe, Ángel Cañones

Birds of Senegal — The Abyssinian ratchet, very similar to the European roller but with a much longer tail.

Netta rufina — Red-crested pochard

Strix Aluco — Tawny owl, Ángel Cañones

Saxicola torquatus — Pair of european stonechat near Alburquerque

Alcedo atthis — Common kingfisher, Jorge Lázaro

Galerida theklae — Thekla’s lark Frank Vassen

Ardeola ralloides — Squacco heron in “Azud de Badajoz”

Panurus biarmicus — Bearded reedling

Anas crecca — Eurasian teal

Serinus serinus — European serin in Malaga

Birding in Extremadura — Courtship of two Hoopoes

Lanius collurio — Red-backed shrike

Columba livia — Rock dove in Palacio tower

Motacilla flava — Western yellow wagtail

Ardea purpurea — Purple heron in Orellana lake

Clamator glandarius — great spotted cuckoo

Ardea cinerea — Grey heron in Badajoz

birdwatching in Sierra de San Pedro — Eurasian eagle owl

Turdus iliacus — Redwing

Locustella naevia — Common grasshoper warbler

Calidris alba — Sanderling with summer plumage

Pandion haliaetus — Osprey in Orellana lake, Nacho Pardo

Aquila chrisaetos — Golden eagle in Otistea hides

Gavia immer — Common loon in Orellana lake

Porphyrio porphyrio — Purple swamphen in Badajoz city

Calidris temminckii — Temminck’s stint

Burhinus oedicnemus — Stone curlew in La Albuera

Coturnix coturnix — Common quail

Hieraaetus pennatus — Booted eagle in Cáceres

Plegadis falcinellus — Glossy ibis in Guadiana river, near Badajoz

Chlidonias niger — Black tern

Águila imperial — Imperial eagle, Ángel Cañones

Sylvia hortensis — Western orphean warbler

Aegithalus caudatus — Long-tailed tit

Lophoceros nasutus — African grey hornbill resting in a branch

Euplectes afer — Yellow-crowned bishop

Tadorna tadorna — Common shelduck in Canchales lake

Amandava amandava — Red avadavat

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus — Sedge warbler

Anthus campestris — Tawny pipit

Calidris minuta — Little stint

Coccothraustes coccothraustes — Hawfinch in Arribes del Duero

Dendrocopos minor — Lesser spotted woodpecker

Cyanistes caeruleus — Eurasian blue tit, Ángel Cañones

birding in La Serena — Imperial eagle juvenile

Charadrius hiaticula — Common ringed plover

Asio otus — Long-eared owl, Ángel Cañones

Calidris canutus — Red knot in may

Corvus corax

Gallinula chloropus — Common moorhen

Prunella modularis — Dunnock

birding in Extremadura — Spoonbill in Orellana lake

Fringilla coelebs — Common chaffinch

Aythya nyroca — Ferruginous duck

Anas acuta — Northern pintail

Streptopelia turtur — European turtle dove, Álvaro de las Heras

Circus cyaneus — Hen harrier male near Badajoz

Neophron percnopterus — Egyptian vulture in Arribes del Duero

Sylvia undata — Dartford warbler

Porzana porzana — Spotted crake

Streptopelia decaocto — Eurasian collared dove

Aythya ferina — Common pochard

Phyrrocorax phyrrocorax — Red-billed chough

Phylloscopus trochilus — Willow warbler

Vanellus vanellus — Peewit

Athene noctua — Little owl mating, Hilary Hoe

Buteo buteo — Common buzzard in Badajoz

Columba palumbus — Common wood pigeon in Canchales lake

Petronia petronia — Rock sparrow, Ximo Galarza

Cuculus canorus — Common cuckoo, Fernando Mostacero

Emberiza schoeniclus — Common reed bunting, Artur Rydzewski

Glareola pratincola — Collared pratincole in La Albuera

Delichon urbica — Common house martin

Anas platyrhynchos — Male of mallard

Phoenicurus phoenicurus — Common redstart female

Falco tinnunculus — Common kestrel female in Badajoz

Gyps fulvus — With a good lens we can take pictures from far away without disturbing the birds. Photo taken by Victor Rodríguez

Parus major, forest birds — Great tit in Badajoz

Circus aeruginosus, raptors of Extremadura — Marsh harrier male in Entrerrios

Birds of la Serena — Great bustard, Juan José Benitez

Milvus milvus — Red kite in Campo Maior

Ixobrychus minutus — Little bittern

Dendrocopos major — Great spotted woodpecker, Álvaro de las Heras

bustards in La Serena — In la Serena great bustards and sheep live together in harmony

Lullula arborea — Woodlark in Arribes del Duero

Pluvialis apricaria — European golden plover in Villanueva del Fresno

Falco naumanni, birds of prey — Pair of Lesser kestrels in Acedera

Otis tarda — Group of Great Bustards in a stubble field

Falco subbuteo — Eurasian hobby

Dendrocopos major — Great spotted woodpecker, Fernando Mostacero

Golden eagle and young imperial eagle — The two big eagles fighting in flight

Remiz pendulinus — Eurasian penduline tit

Alectoris rufa — Red legged partridge in Badajoz

Oriolus oriolus — Golden oriole, Imran Shah

Scolopax rustícola — Eurasian woodcock

Apus pallidus — Pallid swift

Tringa ochropus — Green sandpiper in Cabeza del Buey

Anas penelope — Eurasian wigeon

Tetrax tetrax — Little bustard in Badajoz

Gelochelidon nilotica — Gull billed tern young

Turdus philomelos — Song thrush

Rallus aquaticus — Water rail

Otis tarda — Great bustard near Badajoz

Spinus spinus — Eurasian siskin

Otis tarda — Great bustards in La Serena

Zapornia pusilla — Baillon’s crake

Apus apus — Common swift

Nycticorax nycticorax — Night Heron in Badajoz

Upupa epops — Eurasian hoopoe in Roca de la Sierra

Certhia brachydactyla — Short-toed treecreeper in a pine

Monticola solitarius — Blue rock thrush in Arroyo de San Servan

Falco naumanni — Lesser kestrel, Álvaro de las Heras

Anser anser — Greylag goose

Sitta europaea — Eurasian nuthacht, Darryl Chen

Larus canus — Common gull

Emberiza cirlus — Cirl bunting

Pyrrhula pyrrhula — Bullfinch, Manuel Martin

Falco peregrinus — Peregrine falcon, Álvaro de las Heras

Numenius arquata — Eurasian curlew

turdus pilaris — Fieldfare

Ploceus cucullatus — Village weaver

Chlidonias hybrida — Whiskered tern

Linaria cannabina — Common linnet in Badajoz

Troglodytes troglodytes — Eurasian wren

Sternula albifrons — Little tern

Carduelis carduelis — European goldfinch in Badajoz

Cinclus cinclus — White-throated dipper

Mareca strepera — Gadwall

Ciconia nigra — Black Stork, Mariano Cordero

Pluvialis squatarola — Grey plover

Sturnus unicolor — Spotless starling in Acedera

Otus scops — Scops owl, Ángel Cañones

Caprimulgus europaeus — European nightjar

Gallinula chloropus — Common moorhen in Badajoz

Aquila chrysaetos — Golden eagle near Valencia de las Torres

Pica pica — Eurasian magpie near Badajoz

Aegypius monachus — Cinereous vulture near Aliseda

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