Stonechat 51 square crop

Stonechat

Saxicola torquata (Iberian race)

  BIRDS OF ANDALUCIA

©David J Slater,  2008

This is a beautiful area of Spain I visit each year.  This collection will keep growing as there are many more targets I've yet to capture on film, but here are a few of my favourite birds that are not often, or never seen in the UK.

 Bee Eater 01

 Bee Eater 10

European bee eater

Merops apiaster

 Turtle Dove 05

Turtle dove

Streptopelia turtur

 Woodchat Shrike 10

Woodchat shrike

Lanius senator

 Crested Lark 07

Crested lark

Galerida cristata

 Rock Bunting 02

Rock bunting

Emberiza cia

 Corn Bunting 28

Corn bunting

Miliaria calandra

 Monk Parakeet 08

Monk parakeet (quaker parrot)

Myiopsitta monachus

Purple Gallinule 1

Purple gallinule

Porphyrio porphyrio

Sardinian Warbler 07

Sardinian warbler

Sylvia melanocephala

Hoopoe 10

Hoopoe

Upupa epops

Cattle Egret 19

Cattle egret

Bubulcus ibis

White Wagtail 02

White wagtail

Motacilla alba

Calandra lark 01

Calandra lark

Melanocorypha calandra

Booted Eagle 01

Booted eagle

Aquila pennata

Lesser Kestrel 24 crop

Lesser kestrel

Falco naumanni

Subalpine Warbler 04

Subalpine warbler

Sylvia cantillans

White headed Duck 02

White headed duck

Oxyura leucocephala

 Southern Great Grey Shrike 01

Great-grey shrikE

Lanius (excubitor) meriodonalis 

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