Birds and other fauna of Monte Gibralfaro and Monte Victoria.

Habitat: Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis), Eucalyptus, Wild Olive (Olea europaea), Carob (Ceratonia siliqua) and the odd Holm oak (Quercus Ilex), make up most of the tree species. Typical Mediterranean scrub covered low hills.

Resident birds

• House Sparrow Passer Domesticus
• Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
• Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
• Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
• Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis
• Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus
• Tawny Owl Strix aluco
• Stonechat Saxicola rubicola
• Blackbird Turdus merula
• Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
• Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
• Sardinian Warbler Sylvia melanocephala
• Firecrest Regulus ignicapilla
• Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
• Great spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
• Great Tit Parus major
• Coal Tit Periparus ater
• Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus
• Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus
• Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
• Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla
• Raven Corvus corax
• Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor
• Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
• Linnet Carduelis cannabins
• Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
• Greenfinch Chloris chloris
• Serin Serinus serinus
• Rock Bunting Emberiza cia
• Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus

Summer visitors

• Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur
• Common Swift Apus apus
• Pallid Swift Apus pallidus
• Hoopoe Upupa epops
• Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
• Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
• House Martin Delichon urbicum
• Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
• Red-necked Nightjar Caprimulugus ruficolis
• Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura
• Subalpine Warbler Sylvia inornata
• Spotted Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
• Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
• Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus

Winter visitors

• Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris
• Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba
• Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
• Robin Erithacus rubecula
• Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros
• Song Thrush Turdus philomeros
• Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
• Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
• Jay Garrulus glandarius
• Common Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
• Cetti’s Warbler

Overhead and passers-by

• Peregrine
• Pied Flycatcher
• Booted Eagle
• Wheatear
• Black-eared Wheatear
• Black Kite
• Honey Buzzard
• Common Stork
• Black Stork
• Grey heron
• Subalpine Warbler

Other Fauna