BirdID course in Bulgaria 2015: the end

Well, the time for the end has come.It was the last day of our trip which we used for a transfer from our last destination to Sofia. En route we stopped to stretch our legs and added Yellowhammer to the list. Thus the total number of birds seen in the period 30 April – 9 May is 224 bird species.

Some of their comments include:

“I have never seen anything like this in my whole life” (relates to bird migration)

“I was positively surprised by the birds and food in Bulgaria”

Well, it seems that the trip was a great success. We do this for a third time and our guests seem to like it.

participant in bird id training course

participant in bird id training course

participant in bird id training course

participant in bird id training course

participant in bird id training course

participant in bird id training course

Here is the final checklist for the trip for this year:

1. Mute Swan
2. Ruddy Shelduck
3. Common Shelduck
4. Gadwall
5. Mallard
6. Northern Shoveler
7. Garganey
8. Red-crested Pochard
9. Common Pochard
10. Ferruginous Duck
11. Chukar
12. Grey Partridge
13. Ring-necked Pheasant
14. Black-throated Diver
15. Little Grebe
16. Great Crested Grebe
17. Black-necked Grebe
18. Yelkouan Shearwater
19. Black Stork
20. White Stork
21. Great Cormorant
22. European Shag
23. Pygmy Cormorant
24. Great White Pelican
25. Dalmatian Pelican
26. Great Bittern
27. Little Bittern
28. Grey Heron
29. Purple Heron
30. Great Egret
31. Little Egret
32. Squacco Heron
33. Black-crowned Night-Heron
34. Glossy Ibis
35. Eurasian Spoonbill
36. Egyptian Vulture
37. European Honey-buzzard
38. Eurasian Griffon
39. Short-toed Eagle
40. Lesser Spotted Eagle
41. Booted Eagle
42. Imperial Eagle
43. Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
44. Montagu’s Harrier
45. Levant Sparrowhawk
46. Eurasian Sparrowhawk
47. White-tailed Eagle
48. Common Buzzard
49. Long-legged Buzzard
50. Water Rail
51. Eurasian Moorhen
52. Eurasian Coot
53. Stone Curlew
54. Black-winged Stilt
55. Pied Avocet
56. Eurasian Oystercatcher
57. Grey Plover
58. Northern Lapwing
59. Kentish Plover
60. Common Ringed Plover
61. Little Ringed Plover
62. Common Sandpiper
63. Spotted Redshank
64. Common Greenshank
65. Wood Sandpiper
66. Common Redshank
67. Whimbrel
68. Ruddy Turnstone
69. Ruff
70. Curlew Sandpiper
71. Temminck’s Stint
72. Sanderling
73. Dunlin
74. Little Stint
75. Common Snipe
76. Collared Pratincole
77. Parasitic Skua
78. Slender-billed Gull
79. Black-headed Gull
80. Mediterranean Gull
81. Yellow-legged Gull
82. Caspian Gull
83. Little Tern
84. Gull-billed Tern
85. Black Tern
86. White-winged Black Tern
87. Whiskered Tern
88. Common Tern
89. Sandwich Tern
90. Rock Pigeon
91. Stock Dove
92. Common Wood-Pigeon
93. European Turtle-Dove
94. Eurasian Collared-Dove
95. Common Cuckoo
96. European Scops-Owl
97. Eurasian Eagle-Owl
98. Little Owl
99. Long-eared Owl
100. Alpine Swift
101. Common Swift
102. Pallid Swift
103. Common Kingfisher
104. European Bee-eater
105. European Roller
106. Eurasian Hoopoe
107. Eurasian Wryneck
108. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
109. Middle Spotted Woodpecker
110. Great Spotted Woodpecker
111. Syrian Woodpecker
112. Black Woodpecker
113. Green Woodpecker
114. Gray-faced Woodpecker
115. Eurasian Kestrel
116. Red-footed Falcon
117. Eurasian Hobby
118. Peregrine Falcon
119. Red-backed Shrike
120. Lesser Gray Shrike
121. Masked Shrike
122. Woodchat Shrike
123. Eurasian Golden Oriole
124. EurasianPenduline-Tit
125. Long-tailedTit
126. Eurasian Nuthatch
127. Wallcreeper
128. Short-toed Treecreeper
129. EurasianWren
130. White-throated Dipper
131. Goldcrest
132. Firecrest
133. Cetti’sWarbler
134. Willow Warbler
135. Common Chiffchaff
136. Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler
137. Wood Warbler
138. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
139. Olive-treeWarbler
140. PaddyfieldWarbler
141. Eurasian Reed-Warbler
142. Great Reed-Warbler
143. Savi’sWarbler
144. Blackcap
145. Barred Warbler
146. Lesser Whitethroat
147. Eastern Orphean Warbler
148. Subalpine Warbler
149. Sardinian Warbler
150. Greater Whitethroat
151. Spotted Flycatcher
152. European Robin
153. Thrush Nightingale
154. Common Nightingale
155. European Pied Flycatcher
156. Collared Flycatcher
157. Semicollared Flycatcher
158. Red-breasted Flycatcher
159. Common Redstart
160. Black Redstart
161. Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
162. Blue Rock-Thrush
163. Whinchat
164. European Stonechat
165. Northern Wheatear
166. Pied Wheatear
167. Black-eared Wheatear
168. Isabelline Wheatear
169. Ring Ouzel
170. Eurasian Blackbird
171. Song Thrush
172. Mistle Thrush
173. European Starling
174. Dunnock
175. Black headed Yellow Wagtail
176. Citrine Wagtail
177. Grey Wagtail
178. White Wagtail
179. Tawny Pipit
180. Yellowhammer
181. Cirl Bunting
182. Rock Bunting
183. Ortolan Bunting
184. Black-headed Bunting
185. Reed Bunting
186. Corn Bunting
187. Common Chaffinch
188. Eurasian Bullfinch
189. European Greenfinch
190. Eurasian Siskin
191. European Goldfinch
192. Eurasian Linnet
193. European Serin
194. Hawfinch
195. House Sparrow
196. Spanish Sparrow
197. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
198. Barn swallow
199. Red-rumped Swallow
200. Houses martin
201. Crag martin
202. Jay
203. Jackdaw
204. Raven
205. Hooded Crow
206. Crested Lark
207. Calandra Lark
208. Skylark
209. Tengmalm’s Owl
210. Great Tit
211. Coal Tit
212. Blue tit
213. Sombre Tit
214. Magpie
215. Woodlark
216. Greater Short-toed Lark
217. Marsh Tit
218. Steppe Buzzard
219. Sand martin
220. Red-necked Grebe
221. Penduline Tit
222. Woodcock
223. Rook
224. Bearded Tit