A great birding trip looking for Shorebird on the nearby Ebro water reservoir. Cold afternoon, with wind and rain, but with Godwits, Turnstone, Plovers, …
Grey Plover – Pluvialis squatarola: 62
Common Ringed Plover – Charadrius hiaticula: 150
Bar-tailed Godwit – Limosa lapponica: 270
Whimbrel – Numenius phaeopus: 2
Spotted Redshank – Tringa erythropus: 15
Common Redshank – Tringa totanus: 47
Common Greenshank – Tringa nebularia: 14
Common Sandpiper – Actitis hypoleucos: 4
Ruddy Turnstone – Arenaria interpres: 14
Red Knot – Calidris canutus: 33
Sanderling – Calidris alba: 20
Dunlin – Calidris alpina: 120
Ruff – Philomachus pugnax: 2
Again, a day after, we could see a good flocks of mixed waders, with more Bar-tailed Godwit. The record of 270 Bar-tailed Godwit of the first day, it is the largest concentration of known history to Burgos. (http://www.avesdeburgos.com/anuario.htm)
Grey Plover – Pluvialis squatarola: 79
Bar-tailed Godwit – Limosa lapponica: 260
Whimbrel – Numenius phaeopus: 1
Common Redshank – Tringa totanus: 45
Common Greenshank – Tringa nebularia: 15
Common Sandpiper – Actitis hypoleucos: 9
Green Sandpiper – Tringa ochropus 1
Ruddy Turnstone – Arenaria interpres: 6
Red Knot – Calidris canutus: 50
Sanderling – Calidris alba: 7
Dunlin – Calidris alpina: 15
Ruff – Philomachus pugnax: 3
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