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France Corsica

Crossbill Loxia curvirostra ©Gerd Rossen http://www.digital-nature-photography.com/

The region consists of the Departments of: Corse du Sud & Haute-Corse. The traditional Province (& Island) of Corsica.

useful reading

Books, CDs, etc.

For books on France as a whole and more than one region see the Fatbirder France page...

The Birds of Corsica

[BOU checklist number 17] ? Jean-Claude Thibault & Giles Bonaccorsi 1999 Price ?30.Direct from BOU on: http://www.bou.org.uk/pubrev.html#Birds%20of%20Corsica
ISBN: 0907446213
Buy this book from NHBS.com

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!

2000 [April] - Simon Woolley and Julia Casson

http://www.jjcskw.demon.co.uk/corsica.htm
Weather wise, the 3rd week of April seems OK - our first day was appalling (low cloud and rain); but after that it improved every day, and ended up hot and sunny (24 degrees C). The plants are also superb - loads of maquis specialities, including Provence, Tongue, Green-winged and Early Spider Orchids, and the scenery is among the best anywhere in Europe. If you fancy a low pressure Mediterranean break, with a (very) few very special birds, and lots of beaches/mountains/whatever, then Corsica could be for you!

2000 [April] - Yann Kolbeinsson

http://www.surfbirds.com/Trip%20Reports/francecorsica.html
In April 2000, I travelled to Southern France, an area I visit annually. I was joined by three other Icelandic birders, Gaukur Hjartarson, Gunnar Thór Hallgrímsson and Gunnlaugur Thráinsson...

2002 [May] - Peter Rueegg

http://www.surfbirds.com/mb/trips/corsica-0303.html
It is not the sheer number of bird species that draws a birder`s attention to Corsica. It is rather species poor, but it is blessed with many interesting endemic subspecies and one of the very few true European endemics, the Corsican Nuthatch. The prime target of this trip was to find the Nuthatch as well as Lammergeier and Marmora`s Warbler...

2003 [May] - Martin J Pitt

http://www.surfbirds.com/mb/trips/corsica-mp-0603.html
Corsica is a spectacular island in the Mediterranean south of the coast of France. The British generally neglect it as a tourist destination as it does not feature in the general package brochures and direct links to the UK are relatively sparse. The island is a beguiling mix of beaches, mountains and maquis and is relatively underdeveloped. The mountains reach nearly 10,000 ft and hold snow for most of the year, and form some of the most spectacular scenery in Europe. There is a well-developed footpath system throughout the island including the infamous GR20, the real monster of European long distance footpaths...

2006 [March] - Bob Swann & Andrew Ramsay [Corsica & Sardinia]

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/france/corsica/corsica-march-2006.htm
Arrived Oblia in north east Sardinia at 1720. Collected the car at the airport and then had a quick look in some scrub land close by. Goldfinches, Sardinian Warblers, Hooded Crows and Jackdaws, were all we saw before the light went. Headed north up to Santa Teresa Gallura and booked into the hotel for the night...

2006 [May] - Richard Bonser

http://www.freewebs.com/richbonser/corsicaaprilmay2006.htm
Mark Lopez and I visited the islands of Corsica and Sardinia for 4 days in late April and early May 2006. The prime reason for our visit was to target the two endemic species that are present on Corsica – Corsican Nuthatch and Corsican Citril Finch – as well as observing Marmora’s Warbler and the many endemic or near endemic forms or races that occur on these islands...

local guides

Birding Pal

http://www.birdingpal.org/France.htm
Local birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...

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