THE HOUSE BUNTING

This typical but idyllic month of April brought typical migrating passerines, several great encounters with displaying bustards and sandgrouse in the steppes, a couple of lifers at home and some others on a short trip.

Spending a day with colleagues from Asociación Ulula taught me a good deal about owl ecology while monitoring nests and driving Saladares de Guadalentín for little bustards and black-bellied sandgrouse.

Crakes are an elusive group of waterbirds that strongly caught my attention lately. This season, I enjoyed connecting with two of the local combo of three species: spotted and little crake.