Bird Watching Tenerife. The Canary Islands are home to a huge variety of birds waiting to be seen. Laurel Forest Pigeon Bolles Pigeon Fuerteventura Stonechat Canary Islands Chiffchaff Tenerife Goldcrest and Blue Chaffinch.
This wader has a very long bill that is used for probing among sand and rocks where it finds its food together with other shorebirds like the Sanderling Calidris alba the Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres the Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola and other species. Four of the six birds are listed among the 29 globally threatened bird species occurring in Europe. In addition there is a large number of subspecies around 30 and seabirds to.
An endemic sub-species Parus caeruleus teneriffae.
The birds queue for their twice or thrice daily bath whilst the roof tiles are a good vantage point for our birds of prey on the lookout for sunbathing lizards. This tiny bird is endemic to the islands of Tenerife and La Gomera inhabiting both the laurel and pine forests but preferring the latter. Report inappropriate content. The island of Tenerife has two endemic laurel pigeons Bolles Pigeon Columba bolli and Laurel Pigeon Colu mba junoniae.