This reserve is run by Marcial and Paula Felgueiras, and is open to the public every thursday for a ringing demonstration. Check the following site for details.

 

Dave F, Dave B, and Joe, have just returned from another successful week.  Over 500 birds ringed, and an amazing species list.  Top of the list was 2 Pectoral Sandpipers trapped together in one net.  These birds breed in Siberia, and regions of Alaska and Northern Canada. The wintering range is largely restricted to South America.  Records from europe typically come from late August to mid-October. These vagrants are believed to originate from birds undertaking a southeasterly movement across Canada, which then overshoot the Canadian coastline and become caught in Atlantic depressions or in the jet-stream. (info taken from The Migration Atlas of the BTO.)