Birds visiting Madeira for New Years

Madeira is certainly known for its New Years celebrations and even birds are attracted to this Island to celebrate the coming year! Here are the vagrant species Madeira Wind Birds have observed during the last week:

27th December 2007
Lugar de Baixo
Little Stint
2 Curlew Sandpipers
2 Dunlins
2 Snipes
Greenshank
Scaup

Ribeira da Janela
Female Teal Anas crecca/carolinensis
Green-wingged Teal

São Vicente
2 Whimbrels
2 Pied Wagtails Motacilla alba yarrelli - 1 adult winter and 1 juvenile

29th December 2007
Funchal harbour
Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
Laughing Gull Larus atricilla
Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus
Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus

Lugar de Baixo
Ringged Plover
Sanderling
Little Stint
2 Curlew Sandpipers
2 Dunlins
2 Snipes
Greenshank
Scaup
Many Turnstones
36 Coots

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