Site Report: Costa Calma
Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis)
Lesser Short-toed Lark (Alaudala rufescens)
Mediterranean Short-toed Lark (Alaudala rufescens)
Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor)
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Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis)
Lesser Short-toed Lark (Alaudala rufescens)
Mediterranean Short-toed Lark (Alaudala rufescens)
Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor)
Desert scrub.
Visits
- 2015-03-25: We walked among the dunes across the peninsula, and in the process, we learned that the four wheel drive road that we were walking on was not the trail.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (10 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(10 records)
Class: Birds
(10 records)
- Order: Bucerotiformes
(1 record)
- Family: Hoopoes
- Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(1 record)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
(1 record)
- Family: Swifts
- Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus)
- Order: Pelicans
(2 records)
- Family: Coursers
- Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor)
- Family: Sandgrouse
- Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis)
- Order: Perching Birds
(4 records)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Common Raven (Corvus corax)
- Family: Larks
- Mediterranean Short-toed Lark (Alaudala rufescens)
- Family: Shrikes
- Southern Gray Shrike (Lanius meridionalis)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- Berthelot's Pipit (Anthus berthelotii)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)