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  Spring Bird Checklist
From March to September		  
E: very easy     e: easy (179 species) d: difficult     D: very difficult
E

Little Grebe

 e

Grey Plover

D

White Wagtail
E

Great Crested Grebe

 d

Sanderling

 E

Yellow Wagtail
e

Black-necked Grebe

 e

Stone Curlew

 e

Wren
d

Cory's Shearwater

 E

Collared Pratincole

 e

Rufous Bush Robin
d

Balearic Shearwater

 d

Little Ringed Plover

 E

Nightingale
d

Gannet

 e

Kentish Plover

 e

Stonechat

D

Great Bittern

 e

Lapwing

 d

Black-eared Wheatear

e

Little Bittern

 e

Ruff

 d Mistle Thrush

E

Night Heron

 e

Black-tailed Godwit

 E

Blackbird

E

Squacco Heron

 e

Bar-tailed Godwit

 E

Cetti's Warbler

E

Cattle Egret

 E

Curlew

 E

Zitting Cisticola
D Reef Egret e

Whimbrel

 e

Savi's Warbler

E

Little Egret

 E

Redshank

 e

Reed Warbler
d

Great White Egret

e

Green Sandpiper

 E

Great Reed Warbler

E

Grey Heron

d

Common Sandpiper

 e

Isabelline Warbler

E

Purple Heron

d

Turnstone

 E

Melodious Warbler

E

White Stork

 d

Pomarine Skua

e

Dartford Warbler

E

Glossy Ibis

 d

Artic Skua

e

Spectacled Warbler
e

Spoonbill

 d

Great Skua

d

Subalpine Warbler

E

Greater Flamingo

D

Little Gull

 E

Sardinian Warbler

D

Shelduck

 e

Black-headed Gull

 d

Blackcap

e

Gadwall

 d

Slender-billed Gull

 D Western Bonelli's Warbler

d

Common Teal

 d

Yellow-legged Gull

 D Wood Warbler

E

Mallard

 d

Audouin's Gull

 e Iberian Chiffchaff

d

Pintail

 e

Lesser Black-backed Gull

d

Firecrest
E

Shoveler

 E

Gull-billed Tern

 d Spotted Flycatcher
D

Marbled Duck

e

Caspian Tern

 D Pied Flycatcher
E

Red-crested Pochard

 E

Sandwich Tern

 E

Long-tailed Tit

E

Common Pochard

 e

Little Tern

 e

Crested Tit
d

White-headed Duck

 E

Whiskered Tern

 E

Blue Tit

e

Griffon Vulture

 e

Pin-tailed Sandgrouse

 E

Great Tit

d

Egyptian Vulture

 E

Wood Pigeon

 E

Short-toed Treecreeper
e

Osprey

 E

Collared Dove

 e

Penduline Tit

d

Spanish Imperial Eagle

 e

Turtle Dove

d

Golden Oriole

e

Short-toed Eagle

d

Great Spotted Cuckoo

 e

Iberian Grey Shrike

E

Booted Eagle

 e

Cuckoo

 E

Woodchat Shrike

e

Red Kite

 d

Barn Owl

 E

Azure-winged Magpie

E

Black Kite

 D

Eagle Owl

 E

Magpie
E

Marsh Harrier

 E

Little Owl

 E

Jackdaw

e

Montagu's Harrier

 d

Tawny Owl

 E

Raven
e

Common Buzzard

D

Long-eared Owl

 E

Spotless Starling

d

Goshawk

 E

Red-necked Nightjar

 E

House Sparrow

d

Sparrowhawk

 e

Swift

 E

Spanish Sparrow
d

Black-shouldered Kite

 e

Pallid Swift

 e

Tree Sparrow
E

Lesser Kestrel

 d

Kingfisher

 D

Rock Sparrow
E

Kestrel

 E

Bee-eater

 e

Yellow-crowned  Bishop

D

Hobby

 E

Hoopoe

 e

Common Waxbill

d

Peregrine Falcon

d

Wryneck

 d Black-rumped Waxbill

e

Red-legged Partridge

d

Green Woodpecker

   d Orange-cheeked Waxbill

d

Quail

d

Great Spotted Woodpecker

 E

Chaffinch

d

Water Rail

 E

Calandra Lark

 E

Serin

D

Spotted Crake

 E

Short-toed Lark

 E

Greenfinch

D

Little Crake

 e

Lesser Short-toed Lark

 E

Goldfinch

D

Baillon's Crake

 E

Crested Lark

 e

Linnet
E

Moorhen

e

Thekla Lark

d

Cirl Bunting
E

Purple Swamphen

 e

Wood Lark

d

Ortolan Bunting

E

Coot

 D

Sky Lark

 E

Corn Bunting
e

Red-knobbed Coot

 d

Sand Martin

    
e

Oystercatcher

 E

Barn Swallow

    

E

Black-winged Stilt

 e

Red-rumped Swallow

E

Avocet

   E

House Martin

  
 
   

Noon usual breeding species found only or mainly on passage
March to May and August to November

    

e

Garganey

e

Snipe

 D Rock Thrush
D Honey Buzzard e Black Tern

e

Garden Warbler
E Ringed Plover d White-winged Tern

e

Whitethroat
E Grey Plover d Common Tern D Western Orphean Warbler
D Dotterel D Artic Tern

e

Sedge Warbler
e Golden Plover D Roseate Tern D Aquatic Warbler
e Knot D Lesser-crested Tern D Grasshopper Warbler
d Sanderling   D Razorbill  

E

Willow Warbler
d Turnstone D European Nightjar D Wood Warbler

E

Dunlin

 d Alpine Swift D Western Bonelli's

d

Curlew Sandpiper

 d Roller

E

Spotted Flycatcher

d

Temminck's Stint

d

Tawny Pipit

E

Pied Flycatcher
E Little Stint

e

Tree Pipit

e

Wood Sandpiper

E

Redstart

E

Greenshank

E

Whinchat

    

e

Spotted Redshank

E

Wheatear

    

 

   

Additional species that occur  in the region near Doņana and species with higher chances to be found there

    
e

White-headed Duck

 d Scops Owl e Blue Rock Thrush

e

Marbled Duck

 D White-rumped Swift E Nuthatch
e

Bald Ibis

 D Little Swift E Jay
E

Black Vulture

 d Roller e Chough
d

Golden Eagle

 D Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

e

Golden Oriole
d

Bonelli's Eagle

E

 Crag Martin e

Rock Sparrow

e

Little Bustard

 E White Wagtail

e

 Rock Bunting

e

 Great Bustard E Robin    

e

 Black-bellied Sandgrouse   e Redstart      
E

Rock Dove

  

e

 Black Wheatear      
e

Eagle Owl

   e Mistle Thrush      

Please, notice that there is a great variety of habitats in and near Doņana and you might need to visit a particular one for a particular species o group of species which could involve moving long distances. In this case, more than one day might be needed for your personal bird list.