Madeira Birdwatching in February 2015

27th February 2015 at Lugar de Baixo
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna

26th February 2015 at Machico
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
8 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

24th February 2015 at Lugar de Baixo - reported by Merijn Salverda (NED)
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
Great White Egret Ardea alba

21st February 2015 at Ponta São Lourenço - sightings by Merijn Salverda (NED)
10 Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
22 Little Egret Egretta garzetta

18th February 2015 at Ribeira Brava
Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
Mew Gull Larus canus
Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
2 Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
3 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

At Lugar de Baixo
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula

At Porto Moniz
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus phaeopus

16th February 2015 at Lugar de Baixo
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos

At São Vicente
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus phaeopus

14th February 2015 at Lugar de Baixo
Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea

At São Vicente
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus phaeopus

13th February 2015 at Machico
Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia

12th February 2015 at Machico
Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
9 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

Though it is not Spring yet, we observed the following species of butterflies:
Macaronesian Red Admiral Vanessa vulcania
Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
Monarch Danaus plexippus
Small White Pieris rapae
Clouded Yellow Colias croceus

11th February 2015 at Caniçal - sighted by Peter & Jacky Truelove (UK)
3 Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops

9th February 2015 at Lugar de Baixo
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna

5th February 2015 at Lugar de Baixo - observed by Chris Townsend (UK)
2 Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula

4th February 2015 at Caniçal - reported by Chris Townsend (UK)
Western Osprey Pandion haliaetus

At Machico
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
12 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia

1st February 2015 at Funchal harbour - sighting by Bill Harvey (UK)
Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides