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After a late evening out in Funchal, we spent the majority
of the day recovering around Phil’s Hostel. We walked down into town late
morning where we spent some time birding the parks and lawns adjacent to the
harbour. We had our first Common Waxbill
of the trip, although they were only brief around a small allotment on the
cliffside. The lawns around the city centre where popular with schmitzi
Grey Wagtail, which we found to be fairly approachable given time.
-Banded Garden Spider
-Plain Swift
-schmitzi Grey Wagtail
-Lang's Short-tailed Blue
Species List:
Funchal: Cory’s
Shearwater, Yellow-legged Gull, Common Tern, Feral Pigeon, Grey Wagtail, Common
Waxbill, Lang’s Short-tailed Blue,
Monarch,
Vereda do Areeiro
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In the evening we went out on an evening tour with Wind Birds
to the Zino’s Petrel colony in the
mountains in the centre of the island. The wind battered us while we walked
through the darkness along steep highland paths. It was quite the experience to
say the least! The point where we would hear the petrels coming in to their
nests was some distance along the paths. During quieter spells, when the wind
dropped off, we heard single birds flying about but we did not spot any
silhouettes against the sky.
Species List:
Vereda do Areeiro:
Zino’s Petrel,
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