The list of birds we can find here in March is so big including birds on passage. These are some of the most interesting ones: Shelduck, Red-crested Pochard, White-headed Duck, Black-necked Grebe, Balearic Shearwater, Little Bittern, Cattle Egret, Squacco Heron, Purple Heron, Glossy Ibis, Spoonbill, Greater Flamingo, Osprey, Booted Eagle, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Purple Swamphen, Avocet, Black-winged Stilt, Kentish Plover, Sanderling, Wood Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Audouin’s Gull, Sandwich Tern, Razorbill, Barn Owl, Pallid Swift, Hoopoe, Crested Lark, Crag Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Yellow Wagtail, Bluethroat, Black Redstart, Stonechat, Sardinian Warbler, Zitting Cisticola, Cetti’s Warbler, Spotless Starling and Serin.
Itinerary
The Mouth of the Guadalhorce Nature Reserve is located just between the city of Malaga and Torremolinos. It extends between the two branches of the river, covering 67 ha. of its delta. It is equipped with comfortable hides over the pools that provide shelter from wind and rain in winter and the sun in summer, with very easy tracks to walk about.
The reserve is placed in the flyway to and from the Straits, providing a resting and refueling place for migrant birds which, along with the presence of some very vulnerable resident species like the Kentish Plover or White-headed Duck, makes it a place to deserve the maximum possible protection. The beginning of the spring migration in March is the moment we can enjoy the widest diversity of birds here.
Birds that can be seen
- African stonechat
- Aquatic warbler
- Atlantic puffin
- Audouin's gull
- Balearic shearwater
- Barn owl
- Barn swallow
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Black redstart
- Black-headed gull
- Black-necked grebe
- Black-tailed godwit
- Black-winged stilt
- Bluethroat
- Booted eagle
- Caspian tern
- Cattle egret
- Cetti's warbler
- Common blackbird
- Common grasshopper warbler
- Common house martin
- Common kestrel
- Common kingfisher
- Common loon
- Common moorhen
- Common murre
- Common nightingale
- Common pochard
- Common redshank
- Common ringed plover
- Common sandpiper
- Common scoter
- Common shelduck
- Common snipe
- Common swift
- Common tern
- Crested lark
- Curlew sandpiper
- Dunlin
- Eurasian blackcap
- Eurasian collared dove
- Eurasian coot
- Eurasian crag-martin
- Eurasian hobby
- Eurasian hoopoe
- Eurasian reed-warbler
- Eurasian spoonbill
- European bee-eater
- European golden plover
- European goldfinch
- European greenfinch
- European nightjar
- European serin
- European shag
- European turtle dove
- Ferruginous duck
- Gadwall
- Garganey
- Glossy ibis
- Great egret
- Greater flamingo
- Greater short-toed lark
- Green-winged teal
- Grey heron
- Grey plover
- Hen harrier
- House sparrow
- Jack snipe
- Kentish plover
- Lesser black-backed gull
- Lesser crested tern
- Little bittern
- Little egret
- Little grebe
- Little gull
- Little ringed plover
- Little stint
- Little tern
- Mallard
- Marsh sandpiper
- Mediterranean gull
- Monk parakeet
- Northern gannet
- Northern pintail
- Northern shoveler
- Osprey
- Pallid swift
- Peregrine falcon
- Pied avocet
- Purple heron
- Purple swamphen
- Razorbill
- Red avadavat
- Red knot
- Red-breasted merganser
- Red-crested pochard
- Red-rumped swallow
- Red-throated loon
- Ruddy shelduck
- Ruddy turnstone
- Ruff
- Sand martin
- Sanderling
- Sandwich tern
- Sardinian warbler
- Scopoli's shearwater
- Sedge warbler
- Slender-billed gull
- Spotless starling
- Spotted crake
- Spotted flycatcher
- Spotted redshank
- Squacco heron
- Temminck's stint
- Tufted duck
- Water rail
- Western marsh harrier
- Western yellow wagtail
- Whiskered tern
- White-headed duck
- White-winged tern
- Wood sandpiper
- Yellow-legged gull
- Zitting cisticola