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:
Hopefully before we are to old we will visit.
Hope so too!
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