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This is a list of the bird species recorded in Portugal. The avifauna of mainland Portugal , the Azores , and Madeira islands included a total of 632 species as of October 2024 according to Avibase.
Lagos, Portugal; Metadata. ... Landscape mode (for landscape photos with the background in focus) Exif version: 2.21: Date and time of digitizing: 16:05, 29 March 2016:
They nest on open ground or among rocks or less often in a burrow where one white egg is laid. The burrow is visited at night to minimise predation from large gulls.In late summer and autumn, most birds migrate into the Atlantic as far north as the south-western coasts of Great Britain and Ireland.
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The common firecrest is a small plump bird, 9 cm (3.5 in) in length with a wingspan of 13–16 cm (5.1–6.3 in), [2] and weighs 4–7 grams (0.14–0.25 oz). It has bright olive-green upperparts with a bronze-coloured patch on each shoulder, and whitish underparts washed with brownish-grey on the breast and flanks.
Peneda-Gerês National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpaɾkɨ nɐsjuˈnal dɐ pɨˈneðɐ ʒɨˈɾeʃ]), also known simply as Gerês, is a national park in Norte Region, Portugal. Created in May 1971, it is the oldest protected area and the only national park in Portugal.
A hoopoe was a leader of the birds in the Persian book of poems The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-Tayr by Attar) and when the birds seek a king, the hoopoe points out that the Simurgh was the king of the birds. [34] Hoopoes were thought of as thieves across much of Europe, and harbingers of war in Scandinavia. [35]