Wednesday, January 3, 2007 - DECEMBER 2006 LANZAROTE REPORT

by Francisco Javier García Vargas

December 2006 was a month without remarkable surprises, and the few rarities or interesting species seen were long-stayers that reached the island on previous months. About rarities, only the Greater Scaup* (remained at Janubio until at least 23/XII and still probably there) and Mediterranean Gulls (up to three birds at Arrecife, but seen last time on 13/XII). About scarce migrants, Spoonbill (1 at Órzola and 2 at La Santa), European Golden Plover (1 at Arrecife), Red Knot (3 birds at Janubio), Eurasian Curlew (2 birds at Órzola), Stonechat (2 birds at Yaiza and 1 bird wintering at Arrecife) and Garden Warbler (1 bird at Costa Teguise).

COMPLETE LIST DECEMBER 2006

Cattle Egret

Little Egret

Grey Heron

*Greater Scaup (THIS BIRD WAS FINALLY IDENTIFIED AS LESSER SCAUP ON 20/I/2007)

Lesser Scaup. Janubio salt pans. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

Common Kestrel

Barbary Falcon

Black-winged Stilt

Ringed Plover

Kentish Plover

European Golden Plover

European Golden Plover. Arrecife. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

Grey Plover

Red Knot

Red Knot. Janubio salt pans. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

Sanderling

Little Stint

Dunlin

Bar-tailed Godwit

Whimbrel

Eurasian Curlew

Eurasian Curlew. Órzola. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

Common Redshank

Common Greenshank

Common Sandpiper

Ruddy Turnstone

Mediterranean Gull

Mediterranean Gull. Arrecife. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

Black-headed Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Yellow-legged Gull

Sandwich Tern

Eurasian Collared Dove

Plain Swift

Hoopoe

Lesser Shot-toed Lark

Barn Swallow

Berthelot´s Pipit

Meadow Pipit

White Wagtail

European Robin

Stonechat

Northern Wheatear

Spectacled Warbler

Subalpine Warbler (1 bird at El Cable on 30/XII, my first december record)

Garden Warbler

Common Chiffchaff

Willow Warbler

African Blue Tit

Southern Grey Shrike

Spanish Sparrow

Common Linnet

Trumpeter Finch