The Guide The most updated guide to finding birds in Italy, including Sardinia and Sicily

100 Sites The site account section covers 100 different important birding spots and further 40 are briefly cited as nearby areas.

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Birdwatching in Italy What Italy can offer when birding -Presentation by Steve Webb -.

Birding Italy The guide deals with 114 different species giving concise information about distribution, status and habitat in Italy. Look at the most interesting 18 species every birder wants to see visiting Italy".

Twitcher's guide Where to go to see Pine Bunting, Wallcreeper, Northern Bobwhite, Sacred Ibis, Ashy-throated Parrotbill in Italy.

Rarities in Italy Latest news from Italy: rarities reported by EBN Italia (Intermediate Egret, Atlas Flycatcher etc) .

Birdwatching trip reports Some bird reports from Italy and from nearby countries.

On-line Updates Here you can find up to date news and info.

Birdwatching sites in Italy by EBN Italia- A selection of sites you can not miss!

The Italian avifauna relevance is largerly unknown by foreign birders since one assumes that are exceeded by the same species found in France, Spain or in the Balkans. We wish to focus reader’s attention that Italy has a official check list of 526 species, ranking amongst the first 3 European countries and a large but neglected sequence of rarities. For istance, the combination of Pygmy Cormorant, Lanner, Barbary and Rock Partridge and Marbled Duck are a unique sequence of breeding birds that occurs only in Italy and nowhere in the Palearctic.

Moreover, Ural Owl, Lesser-crested Tern, Audouin’s and Slender-billed Gull are species which characterized Italy very much. We wish to point out that the general knowledge of Italian avifauna is so poor abroad that very few got the information about the natural occurrence of Laughing Dove as breeding bird in Italy.

Laughing Dove, generally thought as a feral species, started to breed on Pantelleria island, a small island located between Tunisia and Sicily, on the African continental platform. There are several pairs, most of them located on the western side of the island, just in front of African coasts. On Pantelleria island, there is also the strong evidence of breeding Long-legged Buzzard, probably belonging to cirtensis form (A.Corso: Avifauna di Sicilia, 2005). A further invasive species moving to Italy from Northern Africa is the Marbled Duck, which breeds in SW Sicily with a few pairs. The understimated value of Sicily and Sardinia avifauna as well as that one of many small islets located in Thyrrhenian Sea is also shown by the poor relevance given by foreign birders to Corsican Finch (breeding Sardinia but also Capraia and other islands), Moltoni’s Warbler (a neglected species, rediscovered breeding in Continental Italy very recently).