The Birds of Formentera
The island of Formentera is an amazing spot for bird watching. The island has a designated natural park (the Nature Park of Las Salinas) which is a designated nature reserve. The park covers costal waters, and inland salt lakes, and the rich habitat has had 210 birds registered.
Audoin's Gull
Birds than have been seen include aquatic birds such as the snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrinus), flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber), the common shelduck (Tadorna tadorna), and the black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus). Sighted marine birds include the Balearic Shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus), and Audouin’s Gull (Larus audouinii). One of the salt water lagoons (Estany Pudent) has the largest concentrations of black-necked grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) in Europe. So this is rich Formentera bird watching territory indeed!
Just some of the species that you can see are below. For more information check out http://www.formenteraguide.com
- Audouin’s gull
- Balearic Shearwater
Balearic Shearwater
- Balearic Warbler
- Barred Warbler
- Blackcap
Blackcap
- Black-headed Gull
Black headed gull
- Black-necked grebe
Black-necked Grebe
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue Rock-thrush
- Bluethroat
- Cattle Egret
- Chaffinch
- Common Moorhen
- Common Shellduck
- Common Starling
- Common swift
- Common Whitethroat
- Corn Bunting
- Cory’s Shearwater
- Crag Martin
- Dartford Warbler
- Eleonora’s Falcon
- Garden Warbler
- Goldfinch
- Grater Flamingo
- Green Sandpiper
- Greenshank
- Grey wagtail
- Hoopoe
- House Martin
- House sparrow
- Kentish Plover
- Kingfisher
- Linnet Little Egret
- Marsh Harrier
- Meadow Pipit
- Nightjar
- Ortolan Bunting
- Peregrine
- Pied Avocet
- Puffin
- Razorbill
- Redshank
- Reed Warbler
- Rock Sparrow
- Ruff
- Sardinian Warbler
- Short-toed Lark
- Skylark
- Sparrow-hawk
- Spectacled Warbler
- Spotted Crake
- Spotted Redshank
- Stone Curlew
- Storm petrel
- Thekla’s lark
- Turnstone
- Turtle Dove
- Western Subalpine Warbler
- Whinchat
- White Wagtail
- Woodchat Shrike
- Yellow wagtail
