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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.
Short-eared owl, Isaac Fdez Galisteo
Skylark in Castuera
Seeing the cranes entering the roost at sunset is a real spectacle.
Carrion crow
Common starling
Western marsh harrier, Álvaro de las Heras
Calandra lark
Thekla lark in Badajoz
Spanish sparrow near Badajoz
Common tern in flight
Montagu’s harrier, Isaac Fdez Galisteo
Common whitethroat
Egyptian goose in Orellana lake
Common sparrowhawk, Álvaro de las Heras
Eurasian tree sparrow
Eurasian bittern
Wood sandpiper
Goldcrest
Common firecrest
Spotless starling on top of a roof
Common waxbill
Zitting cisticola in Badajoz
Black-necked grebe
Green sandpiper in Badajoz
Black redstart female in Badajoz
Bonelli’s eagle
Common shelduck
Sardinian warbler in Badajoz
Crag matin in Campo Maior
Swallow
Yellow wagtail in Orellana, by David Ferrington
Black kite in Montánchez
Red-rumped swallow
Stock dove
Osprey, Álvaro de las Heras
Great cormorant in Orellana lake
Eurasian jay
Northern shoveler
Zebra finch
Eurasian dotterel, Frank Vassen
Black stork in Garcia Sola lake
Thekla Lark
Alpine accentor, Álvaro de las Heras
Water pipit
Bluethroat
Collared pratincole a little more than one meter from the shore
Woodlark, Ángel Cañones
Jack snipe, Tony Hisgett
Eurasian blackcap, Ángel Cañones
Common nightingale
Tufted duck
Common Stonechat male
Ring ouzel, Frank vassen
Corn bunting in Olivenza
Eurasian coot in Badajoz
Goshawk, Ángel Cañones
Eurasian wryneck, Jorge Lázaro
Little bustard with the Almorchón castle in the background.
Black winged kites love to perch in this kind of pipes
Greater short-toed lark, Ron Knight
Spanish imperial eagle in November 2024
Wester barn-owl, Ángel Cañones
Red crossbill
Spotted flycatcher, Rob Zweers
Black bellied sandgrouses in La Albuera
Common sandpiper in Badajoz
Mosquitero común en Badajoz
Cormorant photographed from the boat
Black headed gull in winter in Badajoz
Crested lark in Alburquerque
Rock thrush, Imran Shah
Common crane near Badajoz
Melodious warbler
European honey buzzard
Yellow-legged gull
Mistle thrush, Ángel Cañones
Eurasian Spoonbill
Ruddy shelduck
Great white egret in Orellana lake
White-rumped swift, Derek Keats
Ortolan bunting, Andrej chudy
Crag martin, Álvaro de las Heras
Beautiful young specimen
Northern shoveler in Badajoz city
Dunlin
Meadow pipit in Olivenza
Savi’s warbler, Ron knight
Alpine swift, Álvaro de las Heras
Garganey
House sparrow female
Pallid harrier
Pied avocet with chick
Barn swallow in Orellana lake
Meadow Pipit
Eurasian nuthatch, Mariano Cordero
Pair of Cinereous vultures in Villar del Rey
Short-toed treecreeper
Little egret photographed in Botswana
cranes in flight
White wagtail in Badajoz
Black stork in Orellana, David Ferrington
Group of Greater flamingos resting
Montagu’s harrier male in Otistea hides
European bee eater
Mediterranean gull
Rock bunting in Arribes del Duero
Pin-tailed sandgrouses in flight
owl in a nest box in Sierra de Fuentes
Eurasian reed warbler
Kentish plover
Little ringed plover in Orellana lake
Eastern subalpine warbler
Little Egret
Western bonelli’s warbler, Chaz Jackson
Bonelli’s eagle in Orellana lake
Tree pipit
Scops owl, Ángel Cañones
Great spotted cuckoo
Cattle egret
Azure winged magpie in Zujar island
Great bustard in December 2024
Brambling
Common Crane young
Northern weather near Badajoz
Little Owl in Alcántara
Woodchat shrike in a “dehesa” of Extremadura
common pheasant
Picture taken from our boat
Common Stonechat female
Merlin
Beautiful robin
Cranes with Almorchón Castle in the background
Great reed warbler
Lilac breasted roller is gorgeous
Black wheatear, Álvaro de las Heras
European green woodpecker in Llera
Spotted redshank
European roller in Los Llanos de Cáceres
Bearded vulture, Isaac Fdez Galisteo
Greenshank in Cabeza del Buey
Marsh sandpiper
Curlew sandpiper, Kev Chapman
Spatula in Orellana lake in spring
Western black-eared wheatear, Álvaro de las Heras
Peewit
Iberian chiffchaff, Ferrán Pestaña
Grey wagtail
House martin in a bridge of García Sola lake
Red-rumped swallow, Imran Shah
White stork in Orellana lake
Short toed snake eagle in Alcántara
Great crested grebe in La Albuera
Black stork
Squacco heron in Badajoz dam
Griffon vulture in Hinojosa de Duero
Lesser black backed gull in Orellana lake
Greenfinch in Roca de la Sierra
The stone curlew is another of the birds that can be observed from the boat.
Iberian grey shrike
Eurasian eagle-owl, Ángel Cañones
Nuthatch in a nest box
Common blackbird in a park
Eurasian eagle-owl
Rufous-tailed scrub robin
Little crake, Frans Vandewalle
Coal tit
Peregrin falcon in flight, Pierre Marie Epiney
Couple of white storks
The pink backed pelican is one of the most famous birds of Senegal
Cetti’s warbler
Imperial eagle, Ángel Cañones
European crested tit, Ángel Cañones
Common redshank
Marsh Harrier, a regular at Extremadura lakes
Garden warbler, Billy Lindblom
Great crested grebe in Orellana, David Ferrington
Common snipe
Black-tailed godwit, Álvaro de las Heras
Red-necked nightjar
Iberian grey shrike in Gargáligas
Mallard, Manuel Martin
Eurasian collared dove in Campo Maior, near Badajoz
Jackdaw in Orellana lake
Eurasian coot
European honey buzzard, Álvaro de las Heras
Peregrine falcon in Garcia Sola
European pied flycatcher
Spectacled warbler, Frank vassen
Sand martin
Little grebe, Ángel Cañones
The Abyssinian ratchet, very similar to the European roller but with a much longer tail.
Red-crested pochard
Tawny owl, Ángel Cañones
Pair of european stonechat near Alburquerque
Common kingfisher, Jorge Lázaro
Thekla’s lark Frank Vassen
Squacco heron in “Azud de Badajoz”
Bearded reedling
Eurasian teal
European serin in Malaga
Courtship of two Hoopoes
Red-backed shrike
Rock dove in Palacio tower
Western yellow wagtail
Purple heron in Orellana lake
great spotted cuckoo
Grey heron in Badajoz
Eurasian eagle owl
Redwing
Common grasshoper warbler
Sanderling with summer plumage
Osprey in Orellana lake, Nacho Pardo
Golden eagle in Otistea hides
Common loon in Orellana lake
Purple swamphen in Badajoz city
Temminck’s stint
Stone curlew in La Albuera
Common quail
Booted eagle in Cáceres
Glossy ibis in Guadiana river, near Badajoz
Black tern
Imperial eagle, Ángel Cañones
Western orphean warbler
Long-tailed tit
African grey hornbill resting in a branch
Yellow-crowned bishop
Common shelduck in Canchales lake
Red avadavat
Sedge warbler
Tawny pipit
Little stint
Hawfinch in Arribes del Duero
Lesser spotted woodpecker
Eurasian blue tit, Ángel Cañones
Imperial eagle juvenile
Common ringed plover
Long-eared owl, Ángel Cañones
Red knot in may
Common moorhen
Dunnock
Spoonbill in Orellana lake
Common chaffinch
Ferruginous duck
Northern pintail
European turtle dove, Álvaro de las Heras
Hen harrier male near Badajoz
Egyptian vulture in Arribes del Duero
Dartford warbler
Spotted crake
Eurasian collared dove
Common pochard
Red-billed chough
Willow warbler
Peewit
Little owl mating, Hilary Hoe
Common buzzard in Badajoz
Common wood pigeon in Canchales lake
Rock sparrow, Ximo Galarza
Common cuckoo, Fernando Mostacero
Common reed bunting, Artur Rydzewski
Collared pratincole in La Albuera
Common house martin
Male of mallard
Common redstart female
Common kestrel female in Badajoz
With a good lens we can take pictures from far away without disturbing the birds. Photo taken by Victor Rodríguez
Great tit in Badajoz
Marsh harrier male in Entrerrios
Great bustard, Juan José Benitez
Red kite in Campo Maior
Little bittern
Great spotted woodpecker, Álvaro de las Heras
In la Serena great bustards and sheep live together in harmony