Birdwatching Trip Report from

Visit to Palermo

Botanical garden:
6+ Ring necked parakeets, Tree sparrow, Short toed Treecreeper, Grey wagtail, Chiffchaff, Chaffinch, Black Redstart, etc.

In the town and surroundings also Spanish sparrow and domestic sparrow.

Golf of Palermo
2 Sandwich terns, Yellow legged herring gull, Lesser black backed gull, Cormorant and far away, a few gannets.

Center of the Island, Piazza Armeria

Villa Romana Casale
Greenfinch, goldfinch, Blue tit, coal tit,
1 Warbler sp reed warbler like but long white eyebrow and rufous upper tail! .
and on the surroundings: Raven, Cetti's warbler, Jackdaw, jay.

Pergusa Lake
3000+ Coots
3000+ Pochard
20+ Northern Pintail
20+ Wigeon
200+ Shovelers
could not make a full census of the lake because of the very poor light

Agrigente:
Cirl bunting singing

Near Sciacca:
3000+ Med gulls in flight

NE of Menfi:
40+ Golden Plover in a ploughed field

Monreale
4+ Crag martin
1 probable Bonelli on the surroundings

Selenute and surroundings
A probable lanner falcon.
Woodlark
Song thrush, blackcap, Serin,

Foce del fumento

South part
2+ Marsh harrier, Cisticola, Cetti's, 4 Hoopoes, 1 snipe, 1 GW egret

North part
Reserve access closed
40+ Golden plover, 80+ Lapwings, Spotted redshank, Snipe, Ruff.

Lentini lake surroundings
The access to the lake is forbidden. You can only watch through the gate and birds are really difficult to sea.
Too far to see anything on the lake
Probably 50 Flamingos, cormorants, a lot of gulls.

Under the lake, east of it:
On flooded ploughed fields 4+ Temmink stint, 4 Greylag gooses, 40+ Golden plovers, lapwings.

Zingaro nature reserve:
Blue rock thrush
Possibly 1 Water pipit
No bonelli's eagle

Capo San vito
2+ Yelkouan shearwater and gannets

Saline di Trappani
1 Black necked grebe, 40+ cormorants, 30+ Great white egrets, 50+ Little egrets, 10+ Grey Heron, 70+ Spoonbills, 100 Greater Flamingos, 40+ Mallards, 200+ Teals, 3+ Black winged stilt, 2+ Kentish plovers, 500+ Dunlins, 50+ Little stints, 1 Wood sandpiper, 1 common sand, 100+ common redshanks, 100+ Spotted redshanks, 1 MARSH SANDPIPER, 6 curlew, 20+ Slender billed gulls, .

Little grebe
Black necked grebe: 1 at Trappani Salt pans, 1 at lake perguso
Great crested grebe: a few at lake perguso I think
Yelkouan shearwater;: 2 at San vito lo capo
Gannet: Common around the island on sea
Cormorant
Little egret
Great white egret: 1 at foce del fumento, 30+ at trapani salt pans
Grey heron
Spoonbill: 70+ at Trappani
Greater Flamingo: 40+ at lentini lake, 100 at Trapani salt pans
Greylag goose: 4 east of lentini lake
Mallard
Northern pintail
Shoveler
Wigeon
Teal
Pochard
Marsh Harrier: 1+ at Trappani salt pans, 2+ at Fimento river reserv
Buzzard
Kestrel
Coot
Moorhen
Black winged stilt
Kentish plover
Golden plover
Lapwing
Dunlin
Little stint
Temmink stint
Wood sandpiper: 1 at Trapani salt pans
Common Sandpiper
Redshank
Spotted redshank
Marsh Sandpiper: 1 at Trapani salt pans
Curlew
Snipe
Ruff
Black headed gull
Slender billed gull
Mediterranean gull
Yellow legged herring gull
Lesser black backed gull (intermedius)
Sandwitch terns
Feral pigeon
Wood pigeon
Collared dove
Hoopoe
Kingfisher: 1+ at fiumento river mouth south and 1 at Trapani salt pans
Great spotted woodpecker
Skylark
Crested lark
Wood lark
Crag Martin
Meadow pipit
White wagtail
Grey wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
Black redstart
Stonechat
Blue rock thrush
Song thrush
Blackbird
Blackcap
Sardinian warbler
Zitting cisticola
Cetti's warbler
(warbler sp possible paddyfield)
Chiffchaff
Fire crest
Great tit
Coal tit
Blue tit
Short toed tree creeper
Magpie
Eurasian Jay
Eurasian Jackdaw
Hooded crow
Raven
Common starling common especially on coast
Spotless starling common
House sparrow
Spanish sparrow
Tree sparrow
Chaffinch
Common linnet
European Chaffinch
European greenfinch
Eurasian serin
Cirl Bunting
Corn Bunting

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