birding the costa: 6. Herons, egrets and ibises in Australia

15/6/14

6. Herons, egrets and ibises in Australia

The number of species that we saw in this group was quite amazing, either that or we were extremely lucky. Some of these we saw seldom, others more often and also in New Zealand, such as the White-faced Heron. We saw only 1 Brolga, a species of crane. Of especial note is the colouration of Australian Cattle Egrets in breeding plumage where the head and neck colouration is an incredibly rich reddish-orange, much more so than the birds we see in Europe, so that one might be forgiven for thinking that they are a separate species. We saw a total out of 14 species out of the 18 recorded for southern Queensland and which also includes 3 species of bitterns. I don't think that I can complain at that! The
Black-necked Stork photograph is included as it seems to more or less qualify within this group.

Black-necked Stork

Intermediate Egret - head

Intermediate Egret

Striated / Green Heron

Royal Spoonbill (L), White Ibis (R)

Royal Spoonbills

White-faced Heron

White-necked Heron

Straw-necked Ibises (above & below)

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'Birding the Costa' is a blog spot for English speaking birders anywhere in Andalucía whose Spanish is not up to scratch. It is not just about rarities, although details will be posted of these. You are welcome to send in reports to me for publication for the benefit of others, but please be brief, select the essential and most interesting, and give site, name of nearest town or village and province and date(s) of observation. All published reports will be attributed, so please give your name also. Photos may be sent for publication and will be acknowledged. Attributed reports (translated) from Spanish webs will also be given.

Information about the sites of rare breeding species will not be published.

ME
I'm a sort of Brit., although I've lived about half my life out of the UK, and have lived here on the coast for over 30 years and been birding for over 60.

The vast majority of my birding revolves around my garden area in Torremolinos (c.112 spp. last time I counted), my local spot at the ponds at the mouth of the Río Guadalhorce and less frequently the areas of the lake at Fuente de Piedra and the Tarifa-La Janda area.

I am NOT a twitcher and my main interest lies with seabirds, followed by waders. Little brown jobs, known by the French as les petites merdes, a sentiment with which I fully agree, do not rank high amongst my birding interests.

And in response to a request for more information, I have been a member of the Seabird Group since its inception in 1965, a founder member of the Filey Brigg Bird Group (UK), helped form and served on the Spanish Rarities Committee (Comité de Rarezas), helped found the Iberian Seabird Group (Grupo Ibérico de Aves Marinas) and am an insignificant member of the IUCN Flamingo Specialist Group.

Virtually all sites mentioned in this blog will be found in the 3rd edition of Where to watch birds in southern and western Spain by Ernest García and myself and published by Helm (London).

Sites in the Doñana area can be found in the excellent Where to watch birds in Doñana by Paco Chiclana and Jorge Garzón, published by Lynx.

PUBLISHED 1 AUGUST 2012
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.... for the real seabirder who isn't afraid of doing his/her own active chumming! And it's on waterproof paper!

The BIRDBOOKER REPORT of Ian Paulsen says (12/08) 'In short, this is a must-have guide for serious birders on both sides of the Atlantic. RECOMMENDATION: Pelagic birders should find this waterproof guide useful.

PUBLICATIONS
Varias notas en la revista British Birds entre 1965-presente; 1968-72 en el Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club; desde 1983 en La Garcilla y desde 1995 en Birdwatch.

1985. Interrupted migration and misorientation of Black Terns Chlidonias nigra during spring migration in Andalucía. Seabird 8: 69-73.

1986. Kleptoparasitic feeding by migrating skuas in Málaga Bay, Spain. Ringing & Migration 7: 51-55.

1986. (with E. de Juana) The status of the seabirds in the extreme western Mediterranean. In Medmaravis & Monbilliu, X.. Mediterranean Marine Avifauna; population studies and connservation, pp. 39-106. NATO ASI series G, vol. 12. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

1987. Fenología de las aves marinas en la bahía de Málaga. Ardeola 34(2): 167-192.

1987. Birdwatching in southern Spain. Golf Area, S.A., Málaga.

1988. (with Bourne, W.R.P., Mackrill, E.J. & Yésou, P.) The Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus (puffinus?) yelkouan. British Birds 81: 306-319).

1990. (with Yésou, P., Mackrill, E.J. & Bourne, W.R.P.) Plumage variation and identification of the 'Yelkouan Shearwater'. British Birds 83: 299-319.

1990. (with N.J. Riddiford) Does the Cape Gannet enter European waters? British Birds 83: 519-525.

1990. Aves marinas de Málaga y Mar de Alborán. (Seabirds of Málaga and Sea of Alborán.) Junta de Andalucía, Sevilla.

1990. Seasonal evolution of the gull populations in Málaga, Spain. Ardeola 37: 19-28.

1993. Development of head moult of Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus in southern Spain. Seabird 15:68-71.

1993. The status of the Northern Gannet (Sula bassana) in the Mediterranean. In Ahuilar, J.S., Monbailliu, X. & Paterson, A.M. (eds.) Status and conservation of seabirds, (Proc. 2nd Medmaravis Symp, 1989), pp. 161-171. SEO/Birdlife, Madrid.

1994. (with Dr. E.F.J. García) Where to watch birds in Southern Spain. Christopher Helm, Londres. (También publicado en España por Omega, Barcelona, 1995, Dónde observar aves en la España meridional.)

1995. Distribuzione degli uccelli marini nidificanti nel Mediterraneo, Mar Nero e Mar d'Azov. (Distribution of nesting seabirds in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Sea of Azov.) In Monbailliu, X. & Torre, A. La gestione degli ambienti costieri e insulari del Mediterraneo, pp. 23-42. Collana Mediterranea, vol. 2. Edizione del Sole, Italia.

1997. Aves marinas de España y Portugal. Seabirds of Spain and Portugal.) Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

1999. (with Pierre Yésou) Puffin yelkouan et Puffin des Baléares: une ou deux espèces? (Mediterranean Shearwater and Balearic Shearwater: one or two species?) Ornithos 6.

2001. (with Dr. E.F.J. García) Where to watch birds in southern and western Spain. (revised and enlarged 2nd edition of 1994 publication) (Christopher Helm, London).

2002. Guía a las aves marinas de Iberia. Ediciones Leonesas, León.

2003. Birdwatch, article on 'Prestige' oil spill disaster.

2008. (with Dr. E.F.J. García) Where to watch birds in southern and western Spain. (revised and enlarged 3rd edition of 1994 and 2001 publications) (Christopher Helm, London).

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