Website Updated
13 March 2010
Bird Watching
Birds can be viewed from the balcony of Turquesa over the
Salinas de Marchamalo
Flamingos and other migratory bird flocks nest here every year, using this Nature Reserve as a stopping place in their migrations between Europe and Africa.
Flamingo flocks arrive to the Nature Reserve at the end of the Summer to hibernate.
You can observe the birds from Turquesa's balcony. There are many other birds, such as herons, eaglets, owls, storks, storklets, seagulls and avocets, amongst other species.
Calblanque and San Pedro de Pinatar
These salt flats house a variety of different bird species many of which use this area to spend the harsher winter months during their migration. Here you can find storks, egrets, plovers, and flamingos amongst others.
List of birds recorded in the area since 1985
|
Black necked grebe |
Little Grebe |
Great Crested Grebe |
Mediterranean Shearwater |
Gannet |
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Cormorant |
Little Bittern |
Night Heron |
Cattle Egret |
Squacco Heron |
|
Little Egret |
Great White Egret |
Grey Heron |
Purple Heron |
White Stork |
|
Glossy Ibis |
Spoonbill |
Greater Flamingo |
Mute Swan |
Greylag Goose |
|
Shelduck |
Mallard |
Gadwall |
Pintall |
Shoveller |
|
Widgeon |
Marbled duck/teal |
Garganey |
Pochard |
Red Crested Pochard |
|
Common Scoter |
Red breasted Merganser |
White headed duck |
Osprey |
Short toed Eagle |
|
Booted Eagle |
Bonelli's Eagle |
Golden Eagle |
Marsh Harrier |
Hen Harrier |
|
Montagu's Harrier |
Common Buzzard |
Sparrowhawk |
Kestrel |
Peregrine Falcon |
|
Red legged Partridge |
Quail |
Water Rail |
Moorhen |
Coot |
|
Crested Coot |
Oystercatcher |
Avocet |
Black Winged Stilt |
Stone Curlew |
|
Collared Pratincole |
Little Ringed Plover |
Ringed Plover |
Kentish Plover |
Grey Plover |
|
Golden Plover |
Golden Plover |
Lapwing |
Sanderling |
Turnstone |
|
Dunlin |
Teminck's Stint |
Little Stint |
Wood Sandpiper |
Green Sandpiper |
|
Common Sandpiper |
Redshank |
Spotted Redshank |
Greenshank |
Black tailed Godwit |
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Bar tailed Godwit |
Curlew |
Whimbrel |
Woodcock |
Common Stripe |
|
Ruff |
Black headed gull |
Slender billed gull |
Mediterranean gull |
Yellow legged gull |
|
Audouin's gull |
Lesser black headed gull |
Little tern |
Sandwich tern |
Gull billed tern |
|
Common tern |
Black tern |
Whiskered tern |
Puffin |
Razorbill |
|
Feral Rock doves |
Wood pigeon |
Collared dove |
Turtle dove |
Cuckoo |
|
Great spotted cuckoo |
Eagle owl |
Long eared owl |
Little owl |
Swift |
| Pallid swift | Alpine swift | Hoopoe | Kingfisher | Bee eater |
| Roller | Monk Parakeet | Patagonian Conure | Green Woodpecker | Wryneck |
| Crested lark | Thekia Lark | Lesser short toed lark | Calandra lark | Sand Martin |
| Crag martin | Barn swallow | Red rumped swallow | House martin | Water pipit |
| Meadow pipit | White wagtail | Yellow wagtail | Grey wagtail | Robin |
| Nightingale | Bluethroat (white spot) | Black redstart | Wheatear | Black eared wheateater |
| Black wheateater | Whinchat | Stonechat | Song thrush | Mistle thrush |
| Blackbird | Blackcap | Sardinian warbler | Subalpine warbler | Dartford warbler |
| Fan tailed warbler | Cetti's warbler | Reed warbler | Great reed warbler | Chiffchaff |
| Firecrest | Spotted flycatcher | Pied flycatcher | Great tit | Coal tit |
| Blue tit | Crested tit | Bearded reedling tit | Penduline tit | Woodchat shrike |
| Great grey shrike | Magpie | Jackdaw | Raven | Common starling |
| Spotless starling | Golden oriole | Tree sparrow | House sparrow | Chaffinch |
| Linnet | Goldfinch | Greenfinch | Siskin | Serin |
| Crossbill | Reed bunting | Cirl bunting | Corn bunting | Marsh sandpiper |
