by Juan Sagardía Pradera
On 09/IV/2011, I could detect a migrant pipit in a garden inside the house of my father in law at Montaña Blanca, that in a first time I thought it could be a Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis.
A nearest observation of the bird and the analysis of the pictures taken, make me started to think about the possibility of an Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni.
I sent a picture of the bird to Francisco Javier García Vargas, who told me that he was totally convinced that it was really an Olive-backed Pipit.
Twenty minutes later, F. J. García Vargas arrived to the place and he could observe the bird and heard its voice, before it flew out of the garden.
I saw the bird again early in the morning of 10/IV, but the attempts to relocate it later joined by F. J. García Vargas and A. Unquiles Cobos were unsuccessful.
This is a totally unexpected new addition to our list and It will be (if accepted), the first confirmed record for the Canary Islands of this eastern vagrant.
Olive-backed Pipit-Anthus hodgsoni-Bisbita de Hodgson
Montaña Blanca. Photo: J. Sagardía
Olive-backed Pipit-Anthus hodgsoni-Bisbita de Hodgson
Montaña Blanca. Photo: J. Sagardía
Olive-backed Pipit-Anthus hodgsoni-Bisbita de Hodgson
Montaña Blanca. Photo: J. Sagardía
Olive-backed Pipit-Anthus hodgsoni-Bisbita de Hodgson
Montaña Blanca. Photo: J. Sagardía
Olive-backed Pipit-Anthus hodgsoni-Bisbita de Hodgson
Montaña Blanca. Photo: J. Sagardía