purplerabbits

To distract me from the election and earache and deafness, here is the Algarve bird list. Do let me know if you think anything is mislabelled etc. There will be even more photos later, but I'm slightly drowning in them...

New to Me
1.Penduline tit (at Mertola, so not technically the Algarve)
2.Sardinian warbler
3.Fan tailed warbler, also known as the Zitting Cisticola, which is just an awesome name
4.Melodious warbler
5.Redstart
6.Serin
7.Corn bunting (unless is was some other bunting...)
8.Yellow wagtail (in Portugal they have blue heads, but I'm pretty sure that's what it is...)
9.Crested lark
10.Woodchat shrike
11.Spotless starling
12.Blue rock thrush (also at Mertola)
13.Azure winged magpie
14.Bee-eater
15.Hoopoe
16.Quail
17.Kentish plover
18.Black winged stilt, many many stilts
19.Curlew sandpiper
20.Whimbrel
21.Little stint
22.Cattle egret
23.Purple heron
24.White stork
25.Greater flamingo
26.Caspian tern
27. Muscovy duck
28.Yellow legged gull
29.Lesser kestrel
30.Great bustard
31.Pallid swift

Seen before
32.Great tit
33.Blackcap
34.Willow warbler
35.Garden warbler
36.Swallow
37.House martin
38.Sand martin
39.House sparrow
40.Greenfinch
41.Goldfinch
42.Chaffinch
43.Linnet
44.Grey wagtail
45.Blackbird
46.Magpie
47.Jay
48.Jackdaw
49.Swift
50.Collared dove
51.Feral pigeon
52.Red legged partridge
53.Dunlin (Forever after known to my mum as Dunhills)
54.Sanderling
55.Ringed Plover
56.Sandpiper
57.Turnstone
58.Redshank
59.Spotted redshank
60.Greenshank
61.Bar-tailed godwit
62.Avocet - very pretty birds
63.Oystercatcher
64.Little egret
65.Cormorant
66.Moorhen
67.Little Grebe
68.Mallard
69.Gadwell
70.Lesser black backed gull
71.Great black backed gull
72.Black headed gull
73.Little tern
74.Sandwich tern
75.Sparrowhawk
76.Buzzard