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I am director of Little Oak Group/ independent researcher currently working on several projects including Azores Nature (also member of the Portuguese Rarities Committee) , Balkan Ecology and Beddington Farmlands Nature Reserve.
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A large flock of Steppe Gulls were recorded near Baku in March 2023 which constitutes the first fully documented record of this taxon for Azerbaijan.
A report on the rare birds recorded in the Azores in 2019 and 2020
In the eighteenth report of the Portuguese Rarities Committee of the Portuguese Society for the Study
of Birds (SPEA), relating mainly to the year 2021, 395 records of 153 species were analysed for the referred
period of which 97% were accepted and refer to all the regions of the country considered (mainland Portugal,
autonomous regions of the Azor...
A report of the rare and scarce birds recorded from the Azores in 2018
As of January 2022, the list of American landbirds recorded on Corvo and Flores, Azores, Portugal, stands at 72 species (60 passerines and 12 non-passerines). The most westerly terra firma in the Western Palearctic has, since 2005, hosted ten American passerine species new to the region, including a Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis caught and r...
In the seventeenth report of the Portuguese Rarities Committee of the Portuguese Society for the Study of
Birds (SPEA), relating mainly to the year 2020, 513 records of 204 species were analysed for the referred period of
which 93.6% were accepted and refer to all the regions of the country considered (mainland Portugal, autonomous
regions of the A...
A report on the birds and wildlife recorded at Beddington Farmlands in 2020.
A report on the birds and other wildlife recorded at Beddington Farmlands in 2020.
A report of the rare and scarce birds reported from the Azores in 2017
This paper by Peter Adriaens, Peter Alfrey, Chris Gibbins and Daniel López-Velasco, deals with the identification of Azores Gull. With more than 40 photographs, the paper discusses, for the first time in detail, the identification of this difficult taxon, gives the guidelines for ID, especially useful in a vagrancy context to Europe
A report on the birds and wildlife recorded at Beddington Farmlands in 2019
A report on the birds and wildlife recorded at Beddington Farmlands in 2018
This is the sixteenth report of the Portuguese Rarities Committee of the Portuguese Society for the
Study of Birds (SPEA) and relates to the years 2018 and 2019, although many prior-year records are included
following an extensive review of old records including observations published in the public domain which
have never been formally submitted to...
A report of the rare and scarce birds recorded on the Azores in 2016.
A report on the birds, butterflies, moths, dragonflies and damselflies at Beddington Farmlands in 2016
A report on the birds and other wildlife at Beddington Farmlands in 2017
A report on the rare and scarce bird recorded on the Azores in 2013
A report on the birds and wildlife recorded at Beddington Farmlands in 2013
A report of the bird, moth, butterfly and other wildlife species recorded at Beddington Farmlands in 2015. Includes a summary of conservation works and papers on Beddington Farmlands Ringing Station 2015, Breeding Bird Survey 2015, Bird Population Monitoring 2015, Ringed Gulls at Beddington Farmlands 2014-2015 by Frank Prater, Systematic List of th...
A report on the rare and scarce birds recorded on the Azores in 2014
A report on the birds and other wildlife recorded at Beddington Farmlands in 2014
A report of the Rare and Scarce Birds recorded on the Azores in 2015
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This is the first update to the list of the birds of Mainland Portugal published in 2007, which covered all species recorded from 1800 to the end of 2005. This update adds 14 new species (all included in category A): Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula, Saker Falcon Falco cherrug, Little Crake Porzana parva, Willet Tringa semipalmata, Baird...
L ocated in the mid-Atlantic, 1890 km west of mainland Portugal and 1930 km southeast of Newfoundland, Canada, it is little wonder that Corvo (39°42'N, 31°06'W) – the most northwest -erly of the nine main islands in the Azores archipelago – is the premier site in the Western Palearctic (WP) for Nearctic landbirds. The combination of its location, s...
The article details the identification of a Short-billed Gull on the Azores, the first record of this taxon for the Western Palearctic
