Since my bird course last spring, I also stop and try to identify all the birds that I spot. Some of the birds are easy, because they are European birds overwintering on the Canary Islands, like the common kestrel (Falco tinnuculus). Others are new to us: atlantic canary (Serinus canaria), barbary partridge (Alectoris barbara) on El Hierro and blue chaffinch (Fringilla tedea).