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Species seen in Majorca between 7-21 May 2016.
​Starting with birds. Plants and insects to follow, plus some other interesting odds and ends.

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Birds

For more photos of birds seen in Majorca click HERE

Audouin's Gull - seen along the coast, fairly common
Avocet - four seen on one day in S'Albufera
Bee-eater - seen in C'an Picafort and S'Albufera
Blackbird - commonly seen most days in towns and villages
Black-winged Stilt
Booted Eagle
Cattle Egret - seen on most days in farmland
Cetti's Warbler - seen and more often heard from most types of waterside vegetation
Collared Dove - seen most days near towns and villages
Common Tern - seen along the coast and in wetland areas every day.
Coot - seen wherever there is water and vegetation
Eleonora's Falcon - lots seen hunting over S'Albufera on each visit
Fan-tailed Warbler - seen or heard zitting on most days
Feral Pigeon - common in towns and villages
Goldfinch - seen and heard on most days, fairly common
Great Reed Warbler - heard or seen on every visit to S'Albufera
Great Tit - only seen on a couple of occasions during trip
Hoopoe - seen on most days in towns and villages
House Sparrow - common, seen in all towns and villages
Kentish Plover - seen along the coast and breeding in S'Albufera
Little Egret - very common along coast, streams and in wetland areas
Little Ringed Plover - seen on most visits to S'Albufera
Mallard - common duck in Majorca
Marbled Teal - up to eight seen in S'Albufera
Moorhen - seen wherever there was water between Pt Pollensa and C'an Picafort
Muscovy Duck - one seen along river in C'an Picafort
Nightingale - seen and heard in C'an Picafort and S'Albufera
Purple Heron - seen in flight on all visits to S'Albufera
Purple Swamphen - seen and heard on every trip to S'albufera
Red-knobbed Coot - seen on each visit to S'Albufera
Sardinian Warbler - seen and heard everywhere
Serin - seen and heard wherever there are trees or bushes
Shag - seen along coast on five days
Shelduck - common in S'Albufera
Spotted Flycatcher - very common, seen every day
Squacco Heron - seen on each visit to S'Albufera, but never close
Stone Curlew - three seen on one visit to S'Albufera, photographed through glass
Stonechat - seen most days in scrubby vegetation
Tawny Pipit - seen on three occasions in coastal dunes and farmland
Woodchat Shrike - seen on three occasions in S'Albufera
Woodpigeon - common and seen every day
Yellow Wagtail - fairly common in and around S'Albufera
Yellow-legged Gull - seen every day along the coast and in S'Albufera
Other bird species seen during the trip
Little Grebe - seen and heard on most trips to S'Albufera
Cory's Shearwater - seen distantly off the coast from C'an Picafort
Little Bittern - seen three times in S'Albufera
Night Heron - seen once in flight in S'Albufera
Glossy Ibis - seen three times in S'Albufera
Gadwall - common in S'Albufera
Red-crested Pochard - Common in S'Albufera
Pochard - up to eight seen in S'Albufera
Red Kite - four seen in the centre of the island
Marsh Harrier - seen on each visit to S'Albufera
Osprey - seen twice in S'Albufera
Kestrel - not common during my visit, only seen twice
Ringed Plover - several seen in S'Albufera
​Redshank - seen once in S'Albufera
Common Sandpiper - seen once in C'an Picafort
Turnstone - party of three seen along shore in C'an Picafort
Black-headed Gull - seen on two days in S'Albufera
Swift - seen and heard most days
Thekla Lark - two seen along coast near C'an Picafort
Crag Martin - seen in Northern Mountains
Swallow - seen in ones and twos during fortnight
House Martin - seen in towns
Wren - heard in forest behind coastal dunes near C'an Picafort
Blue Rock Thrush - seen in Bocquer Valley
Reed Warbler - seen and heard in S'Albufera fairly common
Blackcap - seen one in C'an Picafort
Blue Tit - only seen once in Northern Mountains
Raven - seen in Northern Mountains
Chaffinch - seen in Northern Mountains
Greenfinch - fairly common, seen or heard most days
Linnet - frairly common, seen on several occasions
Crossbill - seen or heard on three occasions in Northern Mountains and in C'an Picafort
Corn Bunting - seen and heard in farmland outside C'an Picafort


Invertebrates

For more photos of Invertebrates seen in Majorca CLICK here (Still under construction)

Pararge aegeria (Speckled Wood)
Pieris rapae (Small White)
Vanessa atalanta (Red Admiral)
Vanessa cardui (Painted Lady)
Leptotes pirithous (Lang's Short-tailed Blue)
Polyommatus icarus (Common Blue)
Colias croceus (Clouded Yellow)
Scolia flavifrons
Coccinella septempunctata (Seven Spot Ladybird)
Acmaeodera cylindrica
Cicindela littoralis
Chalcophora mariana (Flat-headed Pine Borer)
Lachnaia tristigma
Novius cruentatus
Rhinocoris iracundus (Assassin Bug)
Pyrrhocoris apertus (Fire Bug)
Gonocerus juniperi
Graphosoma italicum
Oxythyrea funesta
Rhagonycha fulva
Anacridium aegyptium (Egyptian Grasshopper)
Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Mole Cricket)
Pyrgomorpha conica
Orthetrum cancellatum (Black-tailed Skimmer)
Ischnura elegans (Blue-tailed Damselfly)

Plants

Agave
Asteriscus aquaticus
Balearic St John's-wort
Bee Orchid
Bellardia trixago
Borage
Carob Tree
Chicory
Common Mallow
Common Poppy
Creeping Cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans)
Crown Daisy
Fig Tree
Grey-leaved Cistus
Hedge Bindweed
Herb Robert
Honeysuckle
Hottentot Fig
Ivy-leaved Toadflax
Lantana
Lesser Snapdragon
Love-in-a-mist
Olive Tree
Opium Poppy
Perforate St John's-wort
Pommegranite
Posidonia
Scarlet Pimpernel
Sea Holly
Sea Medick
Teasel
Thistle Broomrape
Viper's Bugloss
Yellow-horned Poppy
Blue hound's tongue

Reptiles and Amphibians

European Pond Terrapin
Moorish Gecko
Hermann's Tortoise
Red-eared Slider
Viperine Snake


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