Tenerife

Punta de la Rasca - good for seawatching if you can reach it

Golf del Sur/Amarilla Golf - worth checking for migrants

El Medano Pool - usually has a few waders

El Fraile reservoir - the best wetland on Tenerife but currently out of bounds to visitors

Las Lajas - including details of a less well-known drinking pool for Blue Chaffinch

Punta de Teno - including exact details of where to look for Barbary Falcon

Roque de Garachico - can you really see Baroli’s Shearwaters here?

Ladera de Tigaiga - one of the best places for laurel forest species and races

Pico del Ingles - another site for laurel pigeons, but how good is it?

Erjos - probably the best laurel forests on the island

Icod el Alto - includes no less than 3 sites where laurel pigeons (both Bolle’s and White-tailed) are easier to see than at Erjos, Tigaiga and Pico del Ingles. Don’t waste your time elsewhere.

La Gomera - places to stand where both species of laurel pigeon are easy to see

La Palma - the best places to see both White-tailed and Bolle’s Pigeon and La Palma Blue Tit (and not just at Los Tilos)

Fuerteventura

Barranco de Rio Cabras - where to go now that you can’t park at the foot of the valley

Rosa del Taro - a site that attracts ducks, waders and sandgrouse when it has water

Antigua - where to get great views of Houbara Bustard and Black-bellied Sandgrouse

Betancuria / Las Penitas - including the best sites on the island to look for Canary, Barbary Partridge and Fuerteventura Blue Tit

Rosa de Catalina Garcia - a wetland that has had 13 species of wader and 11 species of duck

Caleta de Fuste - where to look for Fuerteventura Chat, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Cream-coloured Courser, Trumpeter Finch and Egyptian Vulture within walking distance of the resort

Barranco de la Torre - where to park and walk to look for ducks, waders, drinking sandgrouse and Fuerteventura Chats

Los Molinos - the most reliable wetland on the island plus detailed sites nearby for coursers, sandgrouse and the easiest Fuerteventura Chats

Tindaya - El Cotillo - precise details of where to look for Houbara Bustard and Black-bellied Sandgrouse

La Oliva - the latest news of the famous Houbara Bustard ‘roost’

Costa de Jandia - the best sites on the island for shorebirds, passerine migrants and free-flying exotics

La Pared / Istmo de Pared - possibly the best place in the world to see Black-bellied Sandgrouse and get fantastic views of Houbara Bustard

Lanzarote

Playa Blanca - yes, you can still (2013) see Houbara Bustards and Cream-coloured Coursers here if you know where to look

Salinas de Janubio - always a chance of rare ducks and waders here but where are the vantage points?

Teguise plain - possibly the best place in the world to see Houbara Bustard - the exceptionally detailed map in this book allows you to make sense of all those desert tracks and highlights exactly the best places to look

Northern Lanzarote - includes details of specific sites to look for Canary, Barbary Falcon, Eleonora’s Falcon and ‘Slender-billed’ Barn Owl and advice on how you might see Red-billed Tropicbird

Banco de la Concepcion - probably the best place in the world to see White-faced and Band-rumped Petrels at sea along with lots of other fabulous seabirds

The following sites are all included in my book Finding Birds in the Canaries and many are also covered in my DVD of the same title.

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Click on any of the sites below to find photos and further hints. If you have further information to add to these pages, please email me at dave@easybirder.co.uk