Trip Report: East Atlantic Islands (2026-08-10 - 2026-08-31)
Solar Eclipse, Mallorca, 2026-08-12
Solar Eclipse, Mallorca, 2026-08-12, Prominence Close-up
Solar Eclipse, Mallorca, 2026-08-12, Yahoos in Helicopter
Solar Eclipse, Mallorca, 2026-08-12, Sun Dips Below Horizon
Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Rusty Dot Pearl (Udea ferrugalis)
Desertas Petrel (Pterodroma deserta)
Common Waxbill (Estrilda astrild)
Cotton Tipworm Moth (Crocidosema plebejana)
Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris borealis)
Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii)
Island Canary (Serinus canaria)
Madeira Firecrest (Regulus madeirensis)
Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
Desertas Petrel (Pterodroma deserta)
Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
Azores Bullfinch (Pyrrhula murina)
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris)
Dingy Dowd (Blastobasis adustella)
Common Wood-Pigeon (Columba palumbus)
Madeira Lizard (Teira dugesii)
Ichneumonid Wasp (Ichneumonidae sp)
Geometer Moth (Ascotis fortunata)
Iberian Green Frog (Pelophylax perezi)
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Greenhouse Millipede (Oxidus gracilis)
Fungus Moth (Opogona sp)
Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
Madeira Lizard (Teira dugesii)
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
Locust Blowfly (Stomorhina lunata)
Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma castro)
White-faced Storm-Petrel (Pelagodroma marina)
Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana)
Yellow-haired Sun Fly (Myathropa florea)
Sardinian Warbler (Curruca melanocephala)
Western Bonelli's Warbler (Phylloscopus bonelli)
Madeira Lizard (Teira dugesii)
Zino's Petrel (Pterodroma madeira)
Double-striped Pug (Gymnoscelis rufifasciata)
Bird Nest Moth (Monopis crocicapitella)
Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)
Barbary Cicada (Cicada barbara)
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Solar Eclipse, Mallorca, 2026-08-12
Solar Eclipse, Mallorca, 2026-08-12, Prominence Close-up
Solar Eclipse, Mallorca, 2026-08-12, Yahoos in Helicopter
Solar Eclipse, Mallorca, 2026-08-12, Sun Dips Below Horizon
Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Rusty Dot Pearl (Udea ferrugalis)
Desertas Petrel (Pterodroma deserta)
Common Waxbill (Estrilda astrild)
Cotton Tipworm Moth (Crocidosema plebejana)
Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris borealis)
Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii)
Island Canary (Serinus canaria)
Madeira Firecrest (Regulus madeirensis)
Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
Desertas Petrel (Pterodroma deserta)
Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
Azores Bullfinch (Pyrrhula murina)
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris)
Dingy Dowd (Blastobasis adustella)
Common Wood-Pigeon (Columba palumbus)
Madeira Lizard (Teira dugesii)
Ichneumonid Wasp (Ichneumonidae sp)
Geometer Moth (Ascotis fortunata)
Iberian Green Frog (Pelophylax perezi)
Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Greenhouse Millipede (Oxidus gracilis)
Fungus Moth (Opogona sp)
Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
Madeira Lizard (Teira dugesii)
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
Locust Blowfly (Stomorhina lunata)
Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma castro)
White-faced Storm-Petrel (Pelagodroma marina)
Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana)
Yellow-haired Sun Fly (Myathropa florea)
Sardinian Warbler (Curruca melanocephala)
Western Bonelli's Warbler (Phylloscopus bonelli)
Madeira Lizard (Teira dugesii)
Zino's Petrel (Pterodroma madeira)
Double-striped Pug (Gymnoscelis rufifasciata)
Bird Nest Moth (Monopis crocicapitella)
Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)
Barbary Cicada (Cicada barbara)
We traveled to Mallorca to see a solar eclipse. Then, we stopped in Madeira and Azores on the way home.
Sites Visited
Country: Portugal
(17 sites)
Country: Spain
(5 sites)
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (190 records,
115 images)
Phylum: Arthropods
(57 records,
56 images)
Class: Arachnids
(1 record,
1 image)
- Order: Spiders
(1 record)
- Family: Long-jawed Orbweavers
- Long-jawed Orbweaver Spider (Metellina sp)
Class: Centipedes
(1 record,
1 image)
- Order: House Centipedes
(1 record)
- Family: House Centipedes
- House Centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
Class: Insects
(54 records,
53 images)
- Order: Antlions, Lacewings, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Green Lacewings
- Green Lacewing (Atlantochrysa atlantica)
- Order: Bees, Wasps, and Ants (5 records)
- Family: Ichneumonid Wasps
- Ichneumonid Wasp (Ichneumonidae sp)
- Family: Spider Wasps
- Tarantula Hawk Wasp (Cryptocheilus elegans)
- Order: Butterflies and Moths
(31 records)
- Family: Blastobasid
- Dingy Dowd (Blastobasis adustella)
- Family: Brush-footed Butterflies
- Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria)
- Family: Crambid Snout Moths
- European Pepper Moth (Duponchelia fovealis)
- Grass Webworm Moth (Herpetogramma licarsisalis)
- Jasmine Moth (Palpita vitrealis)
- Moss-eating Crambid Snout Moth (Scoparia aequipennalis)
- Narrow-winged Gray (Eudonia angustea)
- Rusty Dot Pearl (Udea ferrugalis)
- Family: Curved-horn Moths
- Curved-horn Moth (Gelechioidea sp)
- Family: Curved-Horn Moths
- Four-spotted Yellowneck Moth (Oegoconia novimundi)
- Family: Cutworm Moths and Allies
- Armyworm Moth (Pseudaletia unipuncta)
- Essex Υ (Autographa circumflexa)
- Pale Mottled Willow Moth (Caradrina clavipalpis)
- Family: Flat-bodied Moths
- Flat-bodied Moth (Agonopterix perezi)
- Family: Fungus Moths, Clothes Moths, & Allies
- Bird Nest Moth (Monopis crocicapitella)
- Detritus Moth (Opogona omoscopa)
- Fungus Moth (Opogona sp)
- Sugar-cane Moth (Opogona sacchari)
- Family: Geometer Moths
- Double-striped Pug (Gymnoscelis rufifasciata)
- Geometer Moth (Ascotis fortunata)
- Geometer Moth (Xanthorhoe rupicola)
- Family: Gossamer-winged Butterflies
- Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)
- Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
- Family: Milkweed Butterflies
- Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus)
- Family: Pyralid Snout Moths
- Christmas Berry Webworm (Cryptoblabes gnidiella)
- Pyralid Snout Moth (Macaronesiana loxogramma)
- Family: Tortricid Leafroller Moths
- Cotton Tipworm Moth (Crocidosema plebejana)
- Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana)
- Family: Underwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths
- Herald Moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix)
- Pinion-streaked Snout (Schrankia costaestrigalis)
- Family: Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs
- Eurasian Clouded Yellow (Colias crocea)
- Order: Flies
(7 records)
- Family: Black Flies
- Black Fly (Simuliidae sp)
- Family: Blow Flies
- Blow Fly (Stomorhina sp)
- Locust Blowfly (Stomorhina lunata)
- Family: Fruit Flies
- Fruit Fly (Tephritidae sp)
- Family: Hover Flies
- Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
- Marmalade Hover Fly (Episyrphus balteatus)
- Yellow-haired Sun Fly (Myathropa florea)
- Order: Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets (2 records)
- Order: True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
(8 records)
- Family: Burrowing Bugs
- Burrowing Bug (Macroscytus brunneus)
- Family: Cicadas
- Barbary Cicada (Cicada barbara)
- Family: Dirt-colored Seed Bugs
- Coastal Groundbug (Beosus maritimus)
- Family: Plant Bugs
- Rice Leaf Bug (Trigonotylus caelestialium)
- Family: Seed Bugs
- Heather Groundbug (Kleidocerys ericae)
- Family: Typical Leafhoppers
- Leafhopper (Deltocephalinae sp)
- Leafhopper (Empoascina sp)
- Leafhopper (Exitianus capicola)
Class: Millipedes
(1 record,
1 image)
- Order: Flat-backed Millipedes
(1 record)
- Family: Paradoxical Keeled Millipedes
- Greenhouse Millipede (Oxidus gracilis)
Phylum: Chordates
(133 records,
59 images)
Class: Amphibians
(1 record,
1 image)
- Order: Toads and Frogs
(1 record)
- Family: Typical Frogs
- Iberian Green Frog (Pelophylax perezi)
Class: Birds
(126 records,
52 images)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(2 records)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)
- Eurasian Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons (4 records)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies (4 records)
- Order: Hornbills and Hoopoes
(1 record)
- Family: Hoopoes
- Common Hoopoe (Upupa epops)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts (3 records)
- Order: Parrots (3 records)
- Order: Pelicans
(29 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Eleonora's Falcon (Falco eleonorae)
- Eurasian Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
- Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
- Family: Flamingos
- Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)
- Family: Herons
- Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
- Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
- Western Cattle-Egret (Ardea ibis)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
- Family: Jaegers and Skuas
- Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
- Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
- Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
- Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
- Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
- Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
- Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
- Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
- Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
- Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
- Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
- Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
- Ruff (Calidris pugnax)
- Sanderling (Calidris alba)
- Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
- Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
- Family: Stilts and Avocets
- Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
- Order: Perching Birds
(47 records)
- Family: Bush Warblers and Allies
- Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Azores Bullfinch (Pyrrhula murina)
- Azores Chaffinch (Fringilla moreletti)
- Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
- European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
- European Greenfinch (Chloris chloris)
- European Serin (Serinus serinus)
- Island Canary (Serinus canaria)
- Madeira Chaffinch (Fringilla maderensis)
- Family: Chickadees and Titmice
- Coal Tit (Periparus ater)
- Great Tit (Parus major)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Common Raven (Corvus corax)
- Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)
- Family: Kinglets
- Common Firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla)
- Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
- Madeira Firecrest (Regulus madeirensis)
- Family: Leaf Warblers
- Western Bonelli's Warbler (Phylloscopus bonelli)
- Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
- Family: Old World Flycatchers
- Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- Common Waxbill (Estrilda astrild)
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Rock Sparrow (Petronia petronia)
- Family: Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers
- Balearic Warbler (Curruca balearica)
- Common Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
- Eurasian Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
- Moustached Warbler (Acrocephalus melanopogon)
- Sardinian Warbler (Curruca melanocephala)
- Spectacled Warbler (Curruca conspicillata)
- Family: Reed Warblers and Allies
- Melodious Warbler (Hippolais polyglotta)
- Family: Shrikes
- Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator)
- Family: Starlings and Mynas
- European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
- Spotless Starling (Sturnus unicolor)
- Family: Swallows
- Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia)
- Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
- Eurasian Crag-Martin (Ptyonoprogne rupestris)
- European Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis rufula)
- Western House-Martin (Delichon urbicum)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)
- European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
- Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
- Family: Treecreepers
- Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- Gray Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
- Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis)
- Western Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)
- White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
- Family: Wrens
- Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies (13 records)
- Family: Plovers
- Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
- Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
- Kentish Plover (Anarhynchus alexandrinus)
- Little Ringed Plover (Thinornis dubius)
- Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)
- Family: Thick-knees
- Eurasian Thick-knee (Burhinus oedicnemus)
- Order: Tubenoses
(13 records)
- Family: Albatrosses
- Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii)
- Family: Northern Storm-Petrels
- Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma castro)
- Monteiro's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates monteiroi)
- Family: Shearwaters and Petrels
- Balearic Shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus)
- Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris borealis)
- Desertas Petrel (Pterodroma deserta)
- Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis)
- Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
- Scopoli's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)
- Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
- Zino's Petrel (Pterodroma madeira)
- Family: Southern Storm Petrels
- White-faced Storm-Petrel (Pelagodroma marina)
- Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(3 records)
- Family: Grouse, Turkeys, and Allies
- Common Quail (Coturnix coturnix)
- Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus)
- Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)
- Order: Waterfowl
(4 records)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
- Graylag Goose (Anser anser)
- Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
- Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata)
Class: Mammals
(3 records,
3 images)
- Order: Bats
(1 record)
- Family: Vespertilionidae
- Azores Noctule (Nyctalus azoreum)
- Order: Even-toed Ungalates and Cetaceans (2 records)
Class: Ray-finned Fish
(1 record,
1 image)
- Order: Salmon, Trout
(1 record)
- Family: Salmon, Trout
- Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)
Class: Reptiles
(2 records,
2 images)
- Order: Lizards and Snakes
(2 records)
- Family: Wall Lizards
- Lilford's Wall Lizard (Podarcis lilfordi)
- Madeira Lizard (Teira dugesii)