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Welcome

A very warm welcome to the Andalucia Bird Society web site.
Here you will find information on birdwatching in Andalucia. A great resource for exchanging and or getting information on many aspects of birding here in southern Spain. If you intend visiting this area, then an open and FREE forum allows you to contact locals on specific site or species information. Contribute to our database & conservation efforts by submitting your vacation trip reports and sighting records to the society.
The main site and the forum also have areas restricted to members of the society. To get even more benefits from our web activities and also be entitled to receive newsletters, quarterly magazine and attend field trips please SUPPORT US!

News

Our latest field meeting itinerary can be viewed on our forum, find out more follow this link

We are not just about birds! Why not add your observations to the Other Wildlife Board on our forum follow this link

We have now published the March 2017 rarities and welcome any additions. To see the current list follow this link

Announcements

Andalucia Bird Society in the News.

The Andalucia Bird Society now has a regular article in the free newspaper The News. Each article is about a different bird species that you will find in Andalucia.

Do you know of any county or national bird clubs, societies, organisations that might want to exchange links with us? We think we can offer their members a great resource through mutual links and able to give their members a point of contact and reference if they intend visiting Spain. Thanks, The ABS team

Members info

As many will already know we were having problems with accepting payment for memberships using PayPal. The problems are now resolved and you can now follow the registration process and use PayPal to pay for membership. If you prefer there are alternative means by which to pay, for instance we are able to accept bank transfers, so if this is a suitable alternative for you, please contact us for further details. For clear instructions using PayPal please see ABS Forum.

Do any members have either articles they want published here on the main site and or photographs we can use in our gallery? If you can contribute please use the 'contact us' form. See main menu bar above.
Note: Members can now access their own area on the main site. See main menu bar above.

Publicity

Do you own a Hotel, Guesthouse, Villa or Casa rural in Andalucia? We are able to offer a link and photograph, plus details of your accommodation if you become an affiliated member of the society. If you are interested in this offer please use the Contact ABS menu tab above.
Do you provide a service in Andalucia? Banner adverts appearing at the top of all pages available for a donation to the society.
Do you offer guiding services in Andalucia for walkers, birdwatchers, botanists, entomologists and or general nature tours? We can offer links on our web site for return links and a single free membership day tour guided by you each year. If you have an interest in this offer please use the Contact ABS menu tab above.

Want a Professional Guide?

Interested in one or more days birding in Spain?

See the list of guides approved by the Andalucía Bird Society

All guides listed have fulfilled the criteria for and qualified to participate in The Professional Bird / Wildlife Guides Certificate.

(See requirements)

Next field meeting

Our next field meeting will be held on the 16th of February 2019. Field Meeting Gabo de Gata, Almeria Province. All actual information you can find on the forum.
We have available online many field meeting reports, which give a huge amount of information about the various sites we have visited earlier.

February 2016 - Osuna area

Interesting tour across the farmlands with many targets achieved a several “firsts” of the season!

A group of enthusiastic birders headed to the steppes at ten o’clock. The first Great Bustards showed up at the first stop and we could find several more, along with a flock of 25+ Little Bustards, before we got to the Laguna de los Ojuelos.

On the way there, the first Red Kites, Crested and Calandra Larks, Iberian Grey Shrikes and Red-legged Partridges came out as well. A lonely kestrel following the plough of a tractor turned out to be a Lesser one... the first of the season! Further away, many more flocked hovering over the farmlands.

Playing Hide and Seek with Doña Ana

abs-pizarra-hide-3sm Andalucian Birders in particular will be pleased to read that some 30 kilometres west of Málaga, a new hide has been built on the Guadalhorce river, just south of Pizarra in an area called Doña Ana. Inaugurated in July 2015, the new Doña Ana hide was a joint undertaking between the Ayuntamiento (town hall) of Pizarra and the Diputación de Málaga (County or Provincial Council)

September 2015 - Tarifa and La Janda

black-vulture Well to say that Tarifa is windy was an understatement for this field meeting. As we stood in the car park of Lidl I was wondering what would happen if we all went to the observation point just outside Tarifa. We would have been sand blasted for the full day and would have seen nothing. After a quick conflab with other senior members we had a plan. We split the group into two, with one party going to La Janda and Barbate and the other doing a grand loop along the motorway and then into the hills past reservoirs where we expected to find the raptors, then via Benalup to the top end of La Janda.

June 2015 - A June Double Header

2015-06-4a Luis Alberto, leader for the day for the ABS June meeting at Guadalhorce, Malaga suggested that those whose alarm & body clocks allowed rising from the 'pit' at a very early hour may like to explore Zapata [north of the airport] in search of Red Necked Nightjars, Night Herons, Little Bitterns amongst others.

So along with LA were Mick Smith and yours truly and what a start we had.

May 2015 - Everything but the Lynx

May2015Spanish-Imperial-Eagle We all know Andujar is visited in search for the Iberian Lynx, the most endangered cat in the world. You can find it or not, but a birdwatcher will never go back home unsatisfied.
A group of members of the Andalucia Bird Society have met today at Restaurante Los Pinos, in Andujar, on the way to the Sierra de Andujar Natural Park. And they were really enthusiastic as the meeting time was 8:00 and we had to go on without breakfast because...

April 2015 - Tarifa and Surrounds

Raptors and Waders

April2015-Booted-Eagle It was a warm, bright summer morning well it was somewhere in Spain, but certainly not at Tarifa where 17 hardy souls of the ABS discussed how many layers of winter clothing they were wearing. The thermometer said 12c, but factor in the wind chill in Lidl's car park and it felt more like -12c, it was out with the scarves and woollen hats too!