March is that month when birds' songs and their flight displays start to fill the air... Going out for birdwatching might end up with a rare vagrant bird that was blown out of its migration route and found by this little bit of land surrounded by ocean!
31st March at Ribeira Brava
2 Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
5 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
8 Common House Martin Delichon urbicum
5 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
At Lugar de Baixo
Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
2 Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
26th March at Porto Santo Golf Course - Reported by Henrique Sousa Lino (PT)
Blue-winged Teal Anas discors - 5th record for Madeira archipelago
6 Common Woodpigeon Columba palumbus palumbus
24th March at Tanque Pond, Porto Santo - Observed by Henrique Sousa Lino (PT)
Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
18th March at Machico
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
8 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
16th March at São Vicente
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus phaeopus
At Santa Cruz
10 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
2 Common House Martin Delichon urbicum
At Lugar de Baixo
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
13th March at Ponta de São Lourenço
2 Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
At Pico do Arieiro - reported by John Swallow (UK)
Black Kite Milvus migrans
12th March at Lugar de Baixo
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
3 Dunlin Calidris alpina alpina
Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
At São Vicente
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus phaeopus
7th March at Chão da Ribeira - observed by Erik Hirschfeld & Helena Lager (SWE)
2 Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
6th March at Paul da Serra
40 Fieldfare Turdus pilaris
Machico
White Wagtail Motacilla alba alba
Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius curonicus
21 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Mediterranean Gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
5th March at Caniçal
Eurasian Dotterel Charadrius morinellus
At Santana
2 Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
At Santa Cruz
20 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
4th March at Funchal
Mediterranean Gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
9 Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
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