Mallorca Birding Summary 17th October 2017
Last Day of Our Holiday and Summary October 2017
The 17th was our last day of holiday on Mallorca so we had to pack our backs and all that stuff. We did manage, however, to get in one last walk up the Boquer Valley and this was a fairly successful walk, too with a single Blue Rock Thrush, a pair of Crag Martins, a pair of Ravens and a pair of Booted Eagles. We got a couple of Sardinian Warblers, of course, and some Goldfinch and Greenfinch and at the very end in the trees outside the Villa Boquer – our last Hoopoe of the holiday.
Our general feeling about the holiday was that there seemed to be fewer birds around than we expected. Be that as it may we still managed to get eighty-seven species including the briefest of glimpses of a “life-tick” Bluethroat. We were a little disappointed with our guided birding day but we appreciate that it is not possible to conjure up birds just when you want them. In fact I think we felt more sorry for Cristina than disappointed – it’s a pressure job. Be that as it may we had a great time and it would have been all the greater if our expected apartment rental had not collapsed and then our flight company gone bankrupt – oh well !
Species List Mallorca 4th – 17th October 2017
| No | Species |
| 1 | Egyptian Goose |
| 2 | Ruddy Shelduck |
| 3 | Common Shelduck |
| 4 | Gadwall |
| 5 | Mallard |
| 6 | Northern Shoveler |
| 7 | Common Teal |
| 8 | Marbled Teal |
| 9 | Common Pochard |
| 10 | Little Grebe |
| 11 | Black-necked Grebe |
| 12 | Greater Flamingo |
| 13 | Great Cormorant |
| 14 | European Shag |
| 15 | Grey Heron |
| 16 | Great Egret |
| 17 | Little Egret |
| 18 | Cattle Egret |
| 19 | Black-crowned Night Heron |
| 20 | Osprey |
| 21 | Booted Eagle |
| 22 | Eurasian Marsh Harrier |
| 23 | Red Kite |
| 24 | Common Buzzard |
| 25 | Water Rail |
| 26 | Purple Swamphen |
| 27 | Common Moorhen |
| 28 | Red-knobbed Coot |
| 29 | Common Coot |
| 30 | Black-winged Stilt |
| 31 | Pied Avocet |
| 32 | Northern Lapwing |
| 33 | Kentish Plover |
| 34 | Common Ringed Plover |
| 35 | Little Ringed Plover |
| 36 | Common Sandpiper |
| 37 | Green Sandpiper |
| 38 | Spotted Redshank |
| 39 | Common Greenshank |
| 40 | Black-tailed Godwit |
| 41 | Curlew Sandpiper |
| 42 | Sanderling |
| 43 | Dunlin |
| 44 | Little Stint |
| 45 | Common Snipe |
| 46 | Black-headed Gull |
| 47 | Audouin’s Gull |
| 48 | Yellow-legged Gull |
| 49 | Stock Dove |
| 50 | Common Wood Pigeon |
| 51 | Eurasian Collared Dove |
| 52 | Pallid Swift |
| 53 | Eurasian Hoopoe |
| 54 | Common Kestrel |
| 55 | Eleonora’s Falcon |
| 56 | Common Raven |
| 57 | Thekla Lark |
| 58 | Sand Martin |
| 59 | Eurasian Crag Martin |
| 60 | Barn Swallow |
| 61 | Common House Martin |
| 62 | Great Tit |
| 63 | Firecrest |
| 64 | Cetti’s Warbler |
| 65 | Common Chiffchaff |
| 66 | Zitting Cisticola |
| 67 | Blackcap |
| 68 | Sardinian Warbler |
| 69 | European Robin |
| 70 | Bluethroat |
| 71 | Common Redstart |
| 72 | Blue Rock Thrush |
| 73 | African Stonechat |
| 74 | Northern Wheatear |
| 75 | Eurasian Blackbird |
| 76 | Song Thrush |
| 77 | Common Starling |
| 78 | Western Yellow Wagtail |
| 79 | Grey Wagtail |
| 80 | White Wagtail |
| 81 | Meadow Pipit |
| 82 | Cirl Bunting |
| 83 | Common Chaffinch |
| 84 | European Greenfinch |
| 85 | European Goldfinch |
| 86 | House Sparrow |
| 87 | Spanish Sparrow |