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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Back in June, I wrote about the birds of the Macaronesian islands – Azores, Madeira, the Canaries and Cape Verde. Today I’m going to...