End of August is always a good time of the year to start to find surprising birds in Madeira... So far we already got 4 Eleonora's Falcons but the migrating season has just started and more will come, we hope!

26th of August 2012 at Lugar de Baixo

1 Curlew Sandpiper observed by Paul Knolle from Holland

Again, a fantastic Madeira Zino's Petrel pelagic expedition, by Wind Birds, went by with the aimed species well observed and with an amazing encounter with Bryde's whale!

This was the pelagic trip with less wind so far this year but Wind Birds team managed to find the aimed birds! Only White-faced Storm Petrel was missed but in compensation we got great whales and dolphins encounters!

8th August - no wind day!
1 Zino's petrel Pterodroma madeira
1 Common Tern Sterna hirundo
Cory's shearwaters Calonectris diomedea
Bulwer's petrels Bulweria bulwerii

The first Zino's Petrel pelagic expedition of August 2012 already showed some vagrant birds as Wilson's storm petrel and Sooty shearwater but the later in the month the better it gets for birds on migration...

21st July 2012 at Faial river mouth
Kingfisher Alcedo atthis - observed by Thierry Decouttere (TD) from France and also observed on the 26th by Thomas Kuppel from Germany

Another Pelagic Expedition in Madeira run with good quality observations though not such big numbers of species seen...

25th July

1 Pterodroma sp. on the way to the chum

1 Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea

1 Madeiran (storm) petrel Oceanodroma castro

Cory's shearwaters Calonectris diomedea

Bulwer's petrels Bulweria bulwerii