Birding Italy Trip Report #02
 
Po-Delta, 11st May 1999 to 14th May 1999
 
 

This is a report of a trip I guided in the Po Delta  (NE Italy)

from 11 to 14 May 1999, organized by the tour operator ARCATOUR (Zug, Switzerland) in

collaboration with the Swiss Ornithological Station of Sempach. The areas

involwed where located in the southern side of the Po Delta, from Goro mouth to the

marshes near Ravenna.

 

Itinerary:

1st day: Bertuzzi lagoon, Nazioni lake; Volano mouth; Zavelea reserve.

2nd day: Comacchio salinas, Mezzano reclaimed area, basins of the Ostellato sugar factory, Gorino lagoon and Goro mouth.

3rd day: Comacchio lagoon.

4th day: Punte Alberete swamp and Mandriole marsh.

Species account:

1 Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
2 Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
3 Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
4 Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
5 Pygmy Cormorant  Phalacrocorax pygmeus
6 Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus
7 Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
8 Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
9 Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
10 Little Egret Egretta garzetta
11 Great White Egret Egretta alba
12 Grey Heron  Ardea cinerea
13 Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
14 White Stork Ciconia ciconia
15 Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia
16 Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus
17 Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber
18 Mute Swan Cygnus olor
19 Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
20 Mallard  Anas platyrhynchos
21 Gadwall  Anas strepera
22 Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
23 Garganey Anas querquedula
24 Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina
25 Common Pochard Aythya ferina
26 Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca
27 Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
28 Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus
29 Eurasian Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
30 European Honey-buzzard Pernis apivorus
31 Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
32 Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus
33 Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
34 Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
35 Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
36 Water Rail Rallus aquaticus
37 Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
38 Common Coot Fulica atra
39 Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
40 Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
41 Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
42 Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
43 Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
44 Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
45 Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus
46 Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola
47 Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
48 Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
49 Dunlin Calidris alpina
50 Little Stint Calidris minuta
51 Temmink's Stint Calidris temminckii
52 Ruff  Philomachus pugnax
53 Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
54 Common Redshank Tringa totanus
55 Greenshank Tringa nebularia
56 Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
57 Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
58 Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus
59 Slender-billed Gull  Larus genei
60 Little Gull Larus minutus
61 Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
62 Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis
63 Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus fuscus
64 Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
65 Sandwich Tern  Sterna sandvicensis
66 Common Tern Sterna hirundo
67 Little Tern Sterna albifrons
68 Black Tern Chlidonias niger
69 Common Woodpigeon Columba palumbus
70 Feral Pigeon Columba livia domestica
71 Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
72 European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur
73 Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
74 Eurasian Scops Owl Otus scops
75 Little Owl Athene noctua
76 Common Swift Apus apus
77 Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
78 Europen Bee-eater Merops apiaster
79 Hoopoe Upupa epops
80 Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
81 Skylark Alauda arvensis
82 Crested Lark  Galerida cristata
83 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
84 House Martin Delichon urbica
85 Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba
86 Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
87 Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
88 Redstart  Phoenicurus phoenicurus
89 Rufous Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
90 Common Stonechat Saxicola torquata
91 Northern Wheater Oenanthe oenanthe
92 Common Blackbird Turdus merula
93 Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides
94 Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
95 Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti
96 Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
97 Eurasian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
98 Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta
99 Common Whitethroat Sylvia communis
100 Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
101 Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca
102 Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
103 Common Chiffchaff Philloscopus collybita
104 Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
105 Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
106 Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus
107 Eurasian Penduline Tit Remiz pendulinus
108 Blue Tit Parus caeruleus
109 Great Tit Parus major
110 Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
111 Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla
112 Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
113 Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
114 Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
115 Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius
116 Magpie Pica pica
117 Eurasian Jackdaw Corvus monedula
118 Hooded Crow Corvus corone cornix
119 Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
120 Italian Sparrow Passer domesticus italiae
121 Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
122 European Serin  Serinus serinus
123 European Greenfinch Carduelis chloris
124 European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
125 Corn Bunting Miliaria calandra
126 Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

 

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