Author: Clive Finlayson

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My Christmas Top Ten

December 22, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 2 Comments

For me, the Christmas/New Year break is a very particular time of the year. It provides me with a peculiar and unusual mix of...

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Hoopoes and others in the winter

December 15, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 2 Comments

Living on Gibraltar, I am, at 36oN, just north of the Sahara Desert. I often wonder what the bird distribution would be like here...

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Imperial Eagles

December 8, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 3 Comments

The Spanish Imperial Eagle (Aquila adalberti) is a raptor that I am familiar with. It is a large eagle, only smaller than the Golden...

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Bird Irruptions

November 24, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 2 Comments

Recent reports coming out from the United Kingdom suggest a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) irruption, although at a smaller scale than that of 2017 when...

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Where north meets south – wintering gulls off Atlantic Iberia

November 17, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 1 Comment

Gulls aren’t everyone’s cup of tea it seems but I find them a fascinating group, highly adaptable and capable of surviving and thriving in...

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Migrating and wintering thrushes in the Iberian Peninsula

November 10, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 5 Comments

Just two thrushes breed across much of the Iberian Peninsula: The Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula) and the Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus). Two others have...

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Europe’s only wintering hirundine

November 3, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 3 Comments

I’m publishing this article later than usual but it’s the subjects themselves that are responsible. Since the 1970s I have been monitoring a wintering...

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Time to go

October 27, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 7 Comments

Time’s almost up for the Scopoli’s (Calonectris diomedea) and Cory’s (Calonectris borealis) Shearwaters to leave for waters in the South Atlantic where they will...

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