Thursday 31 December 2015

2015- Azores Review

A few personal highlights from the Azores in 2015

WINTER 
Did a winter gull watching trip to collect some more information on Azores Gulls and have a look for vagrants: MORE HERE
 Glaucous Gull
 Ring-billed Gull
 Presumed adult American Herring Gull 
 Chris, Peter and Darryl

NATURAL HISTORY TOUR 2015

We did our first AZORES NATURE Natural History Trip. Here's a few highlights:

 Barolo's Shearwater
 Monteiro's Petrel
 Cory's Shearwater
 Fin Whale
 Azores Chaffinch- one of several endemic local races of birds
 Serra de Santa Barbara, Terceira.
 The 2015 group

2015 PELAGIC
Rich Bonser led the annual pelagic to the Bank of Fortune on Graciosa. Rough seas meant it was a difficult year but the group still scored Swinhoe's Petrel, Sooty Tern and Monteiro's Petrel. MORE HERE

Swinhoe's Petrel from 2012. 

 BIRD REPORT AND BIRD FAIR
 We published the 2nd Rare Bird Report MORE HERE
Friends ART won the best tourism stand at the Bird Fair 

CORVO AUTUMN 2015

A vintage year.  For more check out all the birding periodicals and journals. 
 Blue-winged Warbler 
 False Killer Whales (photo by Vincent Legrand) 
 Blackpoll
 Two Blackpolls
 Eastern Wood Pewee- two birds on Corvo
 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks


NEXT YEAR 2016
Looking forward to another great year. There's two organised trips and the usual autumn gathering on Corvo/Flores. 

If interested in either the 2016 Pelagic or the Natural History Tour please email me littleoakgroup@btinternet.com


Special thanks to all friends and partners on the Azores:  Ian at Archipelago Choice, The Azores Tourist Board, Anna and Sofia from ART, Kathy!! at the Commodore Guesthouse Corvo , Rolando from DivingGraciosa, GerbyBirding, The SPEA guys,The Birding Azores Team and of course all the Azores Birders and team mates. 

2 comments:

John and Janina said...

Hopefully before we are to old we will visit.

Peter Alfrey said...

Hope so too!