Birds spending Christmas in Madeira Island

Christmas in Madeira is always popular with tourists and with migrant birds as well. So this is the latest news of vagrant birds that are present in Madeira during this festive season:

On the 26th December 2010
in Paúl da Serra
5 Eurasian Teals Anas crecca - 3 female and 2 male
3 Fieldfares Turdus pilaris
9 Lapwings Vanellus vanellus
1 White Wagtail Motacilla alba

On the 23rd December 2010
in Lugar de Baixo
Lesser black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
2 Female Teals - we presume that 1 might be Green-winged teal
The long-staying male Green-winged teal Anas americana
1 Little Egret Egretta Garzetta
1 Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa Laponica

in Porto Moniz
1 Sanderling Calidris alba

in Ponta do Pargo
1 Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
More than 7 Skylarks Alauda arvensis

in Paúl da Serra
13 Eurasian Teals Anas crecca
4 American Wigeons Anas americana - 3 were males with white forehead
1 White Wagtail Motacilla alba