Sixth CREX Rarities report 2022

This document is the sixth Extremaduran Rarities Committee (CREX) report. CREX was created in 2016 and comprises six members. For this report, 61 records of rare birds in the region were assessed, all of them from the year 2022. All records submitted were accepted. In 2022 Extremadura saw its first record of Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola.  Other records of interest were a Great Northern Diver Gavia immer at Proserpina dam (a different individual to the one recorded there in 2021), a record count of 107 Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica, four records each of Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius and Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla due to strong meteorological conditions brought about in December by Storm Denise, the third records of Great Black-backed Gull Larus atlanticus, Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus and Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis, and the second records of White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus and White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla (From the introduction project in Asturias), which were recorded as a result of GPS tracking.

Sixth CREX Rarities report 2022