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APULIA & MURGIA

short report
(16 - 21 February 1999)
by David B. Collinge

I have appended the list of birds from my 5 days in Puglia. It is an exciting area. The surprises for me (in retrospect) were Cormorant (I won't exclude the possibility that it might have been a shag - it flew east along the coast at a great distance) and Fieldfare.

The nice things for me were Rock Bunting which I have never seen before, Calandra Lark, which I have only seen once and then the more common southern species which we don't see often (if at all) in Denmark - Red Kite, Crested Lark, Black Redstart and Cetti's Warbler. I guess we were just too early for Lesser Kestrel, but the town of Matera was a real experience. And I really enjoyed the contrast in landscapes between the lmestone areas round Martina Franca and Pugliano with the steppe and canyons of Matera ( which was just the right place to visit with a car load of non-birders).
Home page: http://biobase.dk/~david-c/birdex.htm

    Great Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo - 20/2 Megaponto
    Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos - 20/2 Matera
    Red Kite - Milvus milvus - 20/2 Bradano
    Buzzard - Buteo buteo - 20/2 Matera
    Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus - 20/2 Matera
    Lapwing - Vanellus vanellus - 16/2 Milan
    Yellow-legged Gull - Larus michaellis - 20/2 Megaponto
    Rock Dove - Columba livia - 17/2 Martina Franca
    Collared Dove - Streptopelia decaocto - 20/2 Matera
    Calandra Lark - Melanocorypha calandra - 20/2 Matera
    Crested Lark - Galerda cristata - 19/2 Gioia del Colle
    Skylark - Alauda arvensis - 19/2 - Giola del Colle
    Grey Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea - 17/2 Martina Franca
    White Wagtail - Motacilla alba - 18/2 Alberobello
    Meadow Pipit - Anthus pratensis - 20/2 Matera
    (Winter) Wren - Troglodytes troglodytes - 20/2 Matera
    Robin - Erithacus rubecola - 17/2 Martina Franca
    Black Redstart - Phoenicurus ochruros - 17/2 Locorotondo
    Blackbird - Turdus merula - 18/2 Martina Franca
    Fieldfare - Turdus pilaris - 20/2 Matera
    Song Thrush - Turdus philomelos - 20/2 Matera
    Cetti's Warbler - Cettia cetti - 20/2 Matera
    Blackcap - Sylvia atricapilla - 17/2 Martina Franca
    Great Tit - Parus major - 17/2 Martina Franca
    Blue Tit - Parus caeruleus - 17/2 Martina Franca
    Corn Bunting - Emberiza (Milaria) calandra - 20/2 Matera
    Rock Bunting - Emberiza cia - 20/2 Matera
    Chaffinch - Fringilla coelebs - 17/2 Martina Franca
    Serin - Serinus serinus - 17/2 Martina Franca
    Goldfinch - Carduelis carduelis - 17/2 Martina Franca
    House Sparrow - Passer domesticus - 17/2 Martina Franca
    Starling - Sturnus vulgaris - 17/2 Martina Franca
    Jay - Garrulus glandarius - 20/2 Matera
    Magpie - Pica pica - 17/2 Locorotondo
    Jackdaw - Corvus monedula - 17/2 Martina Franca


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