with Alan Lewis, Pete Morris, Barry Wright, Barry Reed, Steve Webb, Simon King and Richard Newton
The target of this trip was to see the 2 endemic landbirds along with 3 pelagics trips to see Zino’s and Desertas Petrels. The boat trips were with Madeira Wild Birds, other than the pterodromas we also saw 2 Barolos, 1 Great, 100’s Corys and a few Manx Shearwaters, White-faced Storm and Bulwer’s Petrels along with 3 Sperm Whales, Short-finned Pilot Whales and Common Dolphins. I also found a vagrant Little Swift, very few island records it seems. We spent a lot of time searching for the endemic race of Barn Owl which we eventually saw. Butterflies included Madeiran Grayling, Clouded Yellow, Lang’s Short-tailed Blue, Madeiran Speckled Wood and a few Monarch’s. We saw a grand total of 36 species of bird, my ebird list is at ebird.org/MyEBird
Species list
| Red-legged Partridge |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Trocaz Pigeon |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove |
| Plain Swift |
| Little Swift |
| Eurasian Moorhen |
| Eurasian Coot |
| Yellow-legged Gull |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull |
| Roseate Tern |
| Common Tern |
| White-faced Storm-Petrel |
| Zino’s Petrel |
| Fea’s Petrel |
| Bulwer’s Petrel |
| Cory’s Shearwater |
| Great Shearwater |
| Manx Shearwater |
| Barolo Shearwater |
| Gray Heron |
| Eurasian Sparrowhawk |
| Common Buzzard |
| Barn Owl |
| Eurasian Kestrel |
| Rose-ringed Parakeet |
| Madeira Firecrest |
| Eurasian Blackcap |
| Spectacled Warbler |
| European Robin |
| Eurasian Blackbird |
| Gray Wagtail |
| Berthelot’s Pipit |
| Common Chaffinch |
| European Goldfinch |
| Island Canary |
Ashley Banwell's Birding 