Canaries and Coursemates: University Fieldtrip to Tenerife

I was priviledged enough to spend a week on Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands off the coast of northwest Africa, on a university field trip in spring. Tenerife is well-known among birders (and visited frequently, e.g. see this 10,000 Birds post from last year) and as it was my first time in the Macaronesian islands, I was particularly excited about the mouthwater array of potential lifers. By…