Lanzarote and the Chinijo Archipelago to its North are the place to go for the Eleonora's Falcon, and Barbary Falcon, as well as recent colonisers such as Cattle Egret and Little Egret. It is also the island to dream of rediscovering the extinct Black Oystercatcher.
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2004 [February] - David & Annette Tomlinson
WebsiteWe flew from Manchester on Britannia on 28th Jan, returning on 8th Feb. We stayed at the Melia Volcan Hotel in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote. We rented an Opel Astra from Carbrera Medina...
2004 [November] - Alan Miller
Website2Nine Houbara Bustards, a Great Spotted Cuckoo and 77 Berthalot's Pipits were some of the birding highlights of a week spent on Lanzarote in November 2004...
2007 [January] - Iain Brown
Report...Based at Playa Blanca at the SW end of the Island, I spent 5 mornings from dawn till 10-11am birding then the rest of the day with my wife sight seeing. I did hire a car and so was able to cover more or less the whole Island...
2008 [April] - Peter Newmark
ReportDuring the unusually hot and windy week of 21-28th April based at Costa Teguise, I managed to have a full day birding in the north of the island and daily short looks in the vicinity of the town...
2011 [September] - Brian Stretch & Jacquie Whittle - Lanzarote & Fuerteventura
ReportAlthough not a birding holiday, inevitably a number of birds were seen while touring the island of Lanzarote and a couple of special trips were made to seek out a few of the key species. All species listed below were seen on Lanzarote except for a day trip to Fuerteventura and the birds seen there are mentioned as such...
2011 [September] - E J Alblas
Report...We stayed a fortnight in the ‘Apartamentos Santa Rosa’ in Costa Teguise, which turned out to be a good choice. Costa Teguise has all you need: not too big, clean, plenty of supermarkets and shops, nice beach (Playa Bastian), plenty of space to park a car and quiet at night...
2012 [February] - Alan Miller
ReportHoubara Bustard seen well at four sites, and Cream-coloured Courser, Barbary Partridge, Berthelot's Pipit, African Blue Tit, Trumpeter Finch and Canary together with several subspecies confined to Macronesia and the Canary Islands were amongst the birding highlights of a visit to Lanzarote in February 2012...
2012 [February] - Stephen Burch
ReportThis is an illustrated trip report for a weeks holiday on Lanzarote, which is one of the north eastern, desert like Canary Islands. The main birding specialities are similar to those of Fuerteventura which we visited last year - Houbara Bustard, Cream Coloured Courser, Trumpeter Finch and Barbary Falcon....
Birding Lanzarote
WebsiteFrancisco Javier García Vargas, Juan Sagardía Pradera and Antonio Unquiles Cobos have been birdwatching in Lanzarote (Canary Islands) the last five years, making a list of the birds observed in the island since 2002...
Aves en Lanzarote
WebsiteJuan Sagardía, Francisco Javier Garcia Vargas and Antonio Unquiles photoblog of birds in Lanzarote...
Lanzarote Birdlife
WebsiteExtracts from other letters about birdwatching in Lanzarote...
Lanzarote Nature
WebsiteBirds find refuge in the Chinijo Archipelago (the small islands to the north of Lanzarote) where several threatened species live (Osprey, Falcons, Petrels, shearwaters etc.) and in the arid zones where the Houbara Bustard, the Cream-Coloured Courser or the Stone Curlew are found...
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