Tenerife

• Number of endemics: 2 Races

  The sub-species: Canary Blue Tit cyanistes teneriffae teneriffae Tenerife Goldcrest Regulus regulus teneriffae with the latter often elevated to a full species.

• Where to Watch Birds in Tenerife

  | By Eduardo Garcia del Rey | Turquesa Publicaciones | 2000 | Paperback | 148 pages, Colour photos, colour illustrations, line illustrations, distribution maps, tables | ISBN: 9788495412072 Buy this book from NHBS.com

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• BG Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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  The Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a botanical garden of 120.000 m² specialized in palms (Arecaceae) . It is an artificial hill, with views of the ocean, located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The gardens include a large system of waterfalls, streams and ponds, a museum dedicated to palms, and a display shade house.

• NP Teide

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  The national park is centered on Mount Teide, the highest mountain of Spain (3,718 meters high) in addition, the highest volcano in the Atlantic Ocean islands and the third highest volcano in the world from its base in the ocean floor (7.500 meters high). The park has an area of 18,990 hectares located in the municipality of La Orotava. Ten species of bird nest in the park. These include the blue chaffinch (Fringilla teydea teydea); Berthelot's pipit (Anthus berthelotii berthelotii); the Atlantic canary (Serinus canaria); and a subspecies of kestrel (Falco tinnunculus canariensis). Three endemic reptile species are also found in the park – the Canary Island lizard (Gallotia galloti galloti), the Canary Island wall gecko (Tarentola delalandii), and the Canary Island skink (Chalcides viridanus viridanus).

• NR Barranco del Infierno

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  The Barranco del Infierno ( "Hell's Gorge") is a ravine located in the town of Adeje in the south of the island of Tenerife.

• NR Macizo de Anaga

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  Macizo de Anaga is a mountain range in the northeastern part of the island. The highest point is 1,024 m (Cruz de Taborno). It stretches from the Punta de Anaga in the northeast to Cruz del Carmen in the southwest. Anaga features the mountain peaks of Bichuelo, Anambro, Chinobre, Pico Limante, Cruz de Taborno and Cruz del Carmen. The mountains were formed by a volcanic eruption about 7 to 9 million years ago making it the oldest part of the island. Since 1987 it has been protected as a "natural park".

• NR Malpaís de Güímar

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  Malpaís de Güímar or Badlands of Guimar consist of a volcanic cone, subsidiary cones, and several basaltic lava flows in the Güímar municipality on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, Spain. They total in area about 290 hectares. The lava flows are quite recent; typically less than 10,000 years old. In 1987, part of the Malpaís de Güímar was set aside as a protected park called the Reserva Natural del Malpaís de Güímar

• Juan José

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  The island of Tenerife is the house for over 200 bird species, from which five species are exclusive from the Canarian archipelago, like the rabiche pidgeon, the turqué pidgeon, the pinzón azul, and those that are recently considered apart from the previous ones: the Canarian mosquito and the reyezuelo of Tenerife.

• 2014 [02 February] - Stephen Burch

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  This is an illustrated trip report for a weeks holiday on Tenerife. This trip follows other ones to the Canary Islands at almost identical times of year, with the common objective of escaping the British winter and getting a bit of sun and warmth!

• 2014 [12 December] - Derek Charlton

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  We stayed near Los Gigantes on a self catering basis. We booked a car hire for three days on arrival and there were ample cafes, bars and restaurants available within easy walking distance around the resort. Los Gigantes is situated near the north-west of the island and the six species on my wish list (incl. Barbary Falcon, Bolles/Laurel Pigeon, Blue Chaffinch) were all possible within an hours drive...

• 2016 [04 April] - David Karr

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  A quest for island endemics (and some very localizsd sub-species) and a great opportunity to catchup with old friends from Venezuela brought me to Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands for a weekend from Geneva. With a hire car, Tony and Rita Crease, Paula Sifontes and Mathias Gonzalez and I spent a very productive day covering most of the top birding sites (and bagging all the wanted birds) on 9 April.

• 2016 [11 November] - Bob Swann

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  ...11th November. An early start as I headed to Playa de las Americas just after first light to look for parakeets. I droveto Avenue les Americas and checked the area between Avenue Rafael Puig Lluvina and Calle Luis Diaz de Losada.Lots of Blackbird and Canary Island Chiffchaff in the bushes in the gardens. Eventually a raucous call alerted meto a pair of Nanday Parakeets in a palm tree on Paseo Les Piramides. Further down the avenue a group of sevenwere feeding in another tree. They were very confiding giving good views....

• 2016 [12 December] - Jean-Yves Barnagaud - Tenerife and La Gomera

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  ...Also two Common Buzzards (one with an all-white belly andface), a Kestrel and several Chiffchaffs and Blue Tits. Then the path enters the laurel forest for ~1km ;a flock of Kinglets, Blue Tits and Chaffinches. Eventually spent some time at the nearby mirador,resulting in a distant flock of ~50 Plain Swifts. Back to Erjos, a stop around the ponds resulted in aCommon Snipe, ~10 Moorhens and several Coots and a Barbary Partdridges....

• 2017 [02 February] - Ed Stubbs

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  ... my first Bolle’s Pigeon flew over the forest valleybelow. 3 more followed in the next 15 or so minutes, and a Pigeon flushed from the track down to the water trough was probably Laurel, but I couldn’t say for sure. So, it was onto the famous Mirador de La Grimona, the apparent failsafe site in the world for this elusive species. I wasn’t to be disappointed – about 5 minutes after arriving, a Laurel Pigeon flew over...

• 2018 [02 February] - Dave Flumm

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  This time round we decided to book our own apartment well away from here – in the small village of Radazul in the north east and with sea views from the balcony for my scope, this proved to be a better solution for the peace and quiet we were seeking. With our hire car and the great new road network we still managed to see most of the island although our second week, being cooler with showers, saw us driving the 60km south most days to the warmer climes associated with southern Tenerife.

• 2018 [05 May] - Elliot Dowding & John Thorogood

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  We arrived late in the evening on Saturday 28th April and spent the 29th, 30th and 1st May birding all day then returned late on the evening of the 1st.

• 2018 [07 July] - Birthe Rasmussen

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  This report covers a 7 days mainly ordinary family vacation though Tenerife, Spain in July 2018 including two Danish birdwatchers. This time is was not an ordinary hard-core birdwatching trip as usual, early up in the mornings and guides, but a family holiday with focus at some of our grandchildren, swimming pools, bathing, focus on history, monasteries, churches, botanical gardens, girl-shopping in different towns and visiting a lot of restaurants. So actually we had the opportunity to make birdwatching 1-2 hours only each day.

• 2020 [11 November] - Bob Swann

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  ...19th November. We arrived around midday and picked up the car from the very efficient Autoreisen staff at the airport. Drove into Arrecife and down to the shore to search for the Belted Kingfisher that had been present since the 8 th November. There was a strong northerly wind and despite searching much of the shore we could not find the bird. The rocky platforms along the shoreline, especially around Castillo de San Gabriel held a variety of waders with small numbers of Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Grey Plover, Sanderling, Common Sandpiper, Turnstone, Whimbrel and a single Dunlin. There were also Little Egrets, Grey Heron and two Great Cormorant. In the bay a large flock of Yellow-legged Gulls, with up to three Lesser Black-backed Gull and a first winter Mediterranean Gull. Offshore up to nine Sandwich Tern...

• 2022 [03 March] - Sam Bosanquet

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  .... I had minor unfinished business after my previous visit to Tenerife in March 2019, as I had missed the endemic meadewaldoi subspecies of Linnet (!) and my last views of White-tailed Laurel Pigeon were distant and murky. Other 2019 misses, such as canariensis Long-eared Owl and Di Barolo’s Shearwater seemed unlikely, but I wanted to give them a shot with some night drives and seawatching. Finally, I hoped to have enough time to enjoy some Tenerife botany on a five-day visit rather than my hurried 3 days in 2019...

• Birds that can be seen on Tenerife

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  The island of Tenerife has many different habitats, ranging from mountains and forests to semi-desert coastal plains and farmland. Not surprisingly it has a wide range of birds and some of these are very rare endemic species….

• Tenerife Birds

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  There are many species, some completely endemic, some that are found on the island, but also elsewhere in the world. Here, I'll list a selection. If any ornithologists know of any others they feel should be included, by all means contact me and I'll remedy the situation…

• Victor Cardoso - Naturaleza Cercana

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• Digiscoping Tenerife

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