Among the most looked forward to and colourful heralds of spring is our Bee Eater; they brighten the season with their bubbling calls as they…
As a young birder in the NW of England, there was the Chiffchaff, a summer visitor that really only needed sorting out from the closely related…
Common Snipe Gallinago gallingo is a familiar and widespread species of wader here in Andalucía. It is a winter visitor…
The Eurasian Siskin (Spinus spinus) is a small member of the finch family Fringillidae. It is also called the European Siskin, Common…
As we move further into autumn our winter birds begin to arrive in numbers. One of these is the Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis). Here in the Iberian…
Although we are all familiar with this common summer visitor it was surprising, during the course of a little research, to learn that so little is…