by Juan Sagardía Pradera and Francisco Javier García Vargas
On 31/XII J. Sagardía detected an African Swamphen Phorphyrio (porphyrio) madagascariensis at Tías golf course. He immediately phoned me and I was there ten minutes later. The bird was so tame and we could obtain a good number of pictures of it.
Since the first time, J. Sagardía saw that the bird was ringed and we think that it is, without any doubt, the same bird collected very exhausted at Gran Canaria on 02/X/09, brought to a recovery center where it was ringed and released into the wild at Charca de Maspalomas (south of Gran Canaria) on 25/X/09. Details about the Gran Canaria record (First for Spain) can be seen here and here.
The bird was relocated at the same place on 01/I (A. Unquiles Cobos) and 02/I (J. Sagardía).
This is the first record of this species for Lanzarote.
African Swamphen-Phorphyrio (porphyrio) madagascariensis -Calamón Africano
Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
African Swamphen-Phorphyrio (porphyrio) madagascariensis -Calamón Africano
Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
African Swamphen-Phorphyrio (porphyrio) madagascariensis -Calamón Africano
Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
African Swamphen-Phorphyrio (porphyrio) madagascariensis -Calamón Africano
Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
African Swamphen-Phorphyrio (porphyrio) madagascariensis -Calamón Africano
Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
African Swamphen-Phorphyrio (porphyrio) madagascariensis -Calamón Africano
Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
African Swamphen-Phorphyrio (porphyrio) madagascariensis -Calamón Africano
Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas
African Swamphen-Phorphyrio (porphyrio) madagascariensis -Calamón Africano
Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas