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Portugal
Portugal is a great country for birdwatchers - both residents and visitors. This small country has been largely ignored by ornithologists yet it has a lot to offer, not only in terms of breeding birds, but also in migrants and non-breeding visitors - seabirds form an important part of what is on offer, both on the mainland and on the archipelagos of Madeira and Azores. The number of people taking an interest in nature and birds is still very low, at least when compared with other European countries, yet the number of ornithologists and birders has undergone a clear increase in recent years, giving Portuguese organisations some encouragement to proceed with their work in this important area. Visiting birdwatchers are encouraged to get in touch with national associations, in order to get updated information about where to go and also to give some feed-back about their experiences in this country. Apart from the birds, Portugal is also interesting from other points of view - landscape, vegetation, history, monuments, beaches, gastronomy... It is almost guaranteed that a visit to Portugal will be interesting from many points of view. |
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Contact re the Alqueva reservoir campaign
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Gonçalo Elias
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Finding Birds in Southern Portugal
D Gosney Series: FINDING BIRDS SERIES 32 pages, maps. Gostours 1995ISBN: 1898110182
Buy this book from NHBS.com
Prion Birdwatchers` guide to Portugal and Madeira
CC Moore, G Elias and H Costa Series: PRION BIRDWATCHERS' GUIDE SERIES 144 pages, line illus, 23 maps. Prion Distributed by NHBS 1998ISBN: 1871104076
Buy this book from NHBS.com
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Proact
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Associacao Cientifica para o Conservacao das Aves de Rapina
Luis Filipe Oliveira, Apt 105, P-2775 Carcavelos. +351 1 4530204.
Sociedade Portguesa para o Estudo das Aves
http://www.spea.ptSPEA, Rua da Vitoria, 53 - 3-Esq, 1100- 618 Lisboa. +351 21 3220430 spea@spea.pt
S.P.E.A. is the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds, and is a scientific organization that works for the development of ornithology in this country and for the conservation of birds and their habitats. S.P.E.A. congregates most Portuguese ornithologists and birdwatchers, as well as people that care for the birds and their preservation in a healthy environment. S.P.E.A. is the Portuguese Partner (Designate) of BirdLife International, an organization with worldwide implantation with partners in more than 60 countries.
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Natural Parks
http://www.di.uminho.pt/~aje/turismo/parques1.htmlBasic Information on all of Portugal`s national and regional parks including flora and fauna likely to be encountered.
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Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!
2001/6 Ben A Miller
http://www.beolens.co.uk/trip-reports/PortugalBM.htmlI took a weeks non-birding holiday with my girlfriend, based in Tavira. Before going I`d negotiated two morning`s birding so, in light of the limited time, decided to concentrate on birds I needed for my Western Paleartic list. ..
2002/6 - Southern Portugal - Stephen and Pat King
http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/Portugal/portugal16/port-june02.htmThis was a strictly birding holiday hoping to see Great & Little Bustard, Red Necked Nightjar, Rock Bunting & Great Grey Shrike...
2002/9 - Peter L. Meininger - Madeira and Porto Santo
http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/madeira/madeira4/mad-sept-02.htmSeawatching from Ponta da Cruz, the southernmost tip of Madeira (07:45-09:30, NE1, clear visibility, calm sea). We watched from a small concrete platform next to a row of palm trees, near a parking lot in front of a supermarket...
2003/5 - Andy Jayne & Mo Croose
http://www.birder.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Portugal0503.htmOur first visit to Portugal was from 6th-12th May 2001 when we stayed on the Algarve coast near Tavira. On that occasion we recorded 109 species including the following that we did not see on this visit – Cormorant, Short-toed Eagle, Great Bustard, Little Stint, Curlew, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Nightjar, Roller, Woodlark, Thekla Lark, Dartford Warbler, Crested Tit, Short-toed Treecreeper and Hawfinch...
2003/6 - Trond Haugskott - Southern Portugal
http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/portugal/portugal17/S-port-jul-03.htmEven if this was a typical family holiday with wife and kids, I was still hoping to find time to enjoy some good birding. And I really did, in less than two weeks...
2003/9 - Georges & Mireille Olioso - Madeira & Porto Santo
http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/madeira/madeira6/mad-sept-03.htmVery few birds ; like other small islands, few species, but also few individuals. No sparrows on Madeira, no Collared Doves! Widespread species are rare: Canaries, Grey Wagtail, Plain Swift, Blackbird, Yellow-legged Gull, Buzzard, Kestrel and Feral Pigeon. Others, like Chaffinch, Berthelot`s Pipit and Firecrest are common in right habitat. At sea, there are always some Cory`s Shearwater...
2004/12 - David Arch
http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/portugal/portugal22/port-spain-dec-04.htmSix people who happen to belong to Bishop’s Stortford Bird Group flew on a private trip from Stansted Airport to Faro early morning on Sunday 12th December 2004 with Easyjet and back home as planned on the following Wednesday...
2004/5 - Alan & Rose Saunders
http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/Portugal/portugal18/port-may-04.htmWe aimed to have a relaxing 2 week break with some days of 9am – 5pm birding with several afternoons sightseeing or by the pool...
2004/5 - Alan and Rose Saunders - Southern Portugal
http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/portugal/portugal18/port-may-04.htmWe aimed to have a relaxing 2 week break with some days of 9am – 5pm birding with several afternoons sightseeing or by the pool...
2004/9 - Pearl Claydon & Alasdair Bulloch
http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/Portugal/portugal20/port-sept-04.htmWe never considered going to Portugal for a birding holiday, but so glad we did. We have booked our flight for next Spring...
2005 [April] - Mark How
http://www.hows.org.uk/inter/birds/portugal/portugal.htmAfter a lie in Azure winged magpies were easily spotted from the Villa, along with singing spotless starlings. Essential shopping and bits and pieces were taken care of then we headed down to the beach just near our villa, a couple of sandwich terns were fishing off shore, along with yellow legged and greater black backed gulls and a bold crested lark was on the beach. Here was a small lagoon (just outside the nature reserve) with a hide here the birding was good, purple swamphen, black winged stilt, little egret, snipe, moorhen, coot, shoveler, mallard, teal, gadwall along with many terrapins and cetti's warblers. A group of photographers from the UK were at the hide and we swapped sightings sites etc. One of them spotted a spotted crake out in the open showing well, house martins and swallows swooped overhead. I headed into the pine wood/scrub adjacent to the lagoon, goldfinch, greenfinch and serin were abundant. Blackbirds, house sparrows and common chiffchaff were easily found. The highlights here was a short toed treecreeper calling nicely and a showy bonelli's warbler. This rounded off the day...
2005/3 Honeyguides
http://www.honeyguide.co.uk/pdfs/Algarve-2005.pdflocal guides |
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Birding in Portugal
http://www.birding-in-portugal.com/Birding-in-portugal.com blends guided birdwatching throughout southern Portugal with a centralised location in a sparsely populated region of unique beauty. It's aim is to let you see the birds and countryside you wish to see and as much of them and it as possible, directing or taking you to places normally unfrequented by tourists. With its wealth of experience and flexibility of outlook it aims to satisfy any visitor to this wonderful region, whether they wish to have a guide or simply to birdwatch on their own...
Birding Pal
http://www.birdingpal.org/Portugal.htmLocal birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...
CMDL Birdwatching Tours
http://cmdlbirdwatching.no.sapo.pt/For any person or small group interested in coming to Portugal for birdwatching, we can suggest the best itinerary according to their interests, the season and the time they wish to spend. Then we will guide the group during all the itinerary and charge for the service...
Domingos Leitão - Portuguese Birding Guide
http://www.cmdlbirdwtching.no.sapo.ptI lead tours and small individual groups everywhere in Portugal and have an extensive knowlwdge of all bird habitats and sites…
Honeyguide Wildlife Holidays
http://www.honeyguide.co.ukIf you are looking for a quality natural history holiday, this is a great place to start. The Honeyguide programme offers a mix of the very best of wildlife in fascinating parts of Europe...
Iberian Wildlife Tours
http://www.iberianwildlife.com/We are all British, freelance, natural history tour leaders who have been living in our respective regions of Spain for many years. Our experience of leading wildlife holidays in Spain and Portugal dates from 1989, both with established wildlife tour companies and a tailor-made basis for independent groups...
Travelling Naturalist
http://www.naturalist.co.uk/tours2006/portugal.phpWith its great diversity of habitat providing first landfall for thousands of spring migrants, good feeding grounds for birds on autumn migration, and a fine range of resident birds on the coast and inland...
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Quinta do Barranco da Estrada (Gully Road Farm)
http://www.paradise-in-portugal.comA small, 7 bedroomed south facing lakeside hotel with stunning views over one of Europe`s largest and cleanest lakes, it is set in unspoilt countryside one and a half hours from Faro International Airport. The cooking is to a cordon bleu standard, and the friendliness and professionalism of the international staff make a holiday here something to be treasured. The lake, though close to the Algarve, is relatively unknown, with a busy day being the sight of over five boats, and in the summer the mature fruit and flower gardens lead guests down to the shore where a variety of watersports are on offer, overlooked by the lawns close to the water`s edge.
Quintassential
http://www.quintassential.com/Welcome to Quintassential Holiday Apartments where four luxurious self catering apartment/cottages are located in an old Quinta in the central Algarve, Portugal offering accommodation from 2 to 13 people...
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Aves
http://aves.team-forum.net/Fórum para troca de informações sobre aves selvagens.
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Aves de Portugal
http://avesdeportugal.home.sapo.ptPhoto Gallery...
Aves On-line
http://www.geocities.com/zedias/It is well known the increasing interest about environmental issues, taking birds special care from those who are worried with nature. With this and future articles, I hope to give a contribute to uncover the fascinating world of birdwatching. This hobby is only based in your pleasure in contact with nature, allied to some essencial and cheap material. Binoculars and a field book are fundamental pieces of equipment to identify the almost 260 bird species that appear in Portugal. This only the beginning of a serial of articles about this subject.
Birding in Portugal
http://www.birding-in-portugal.comBirding-in-portugal.com blends guided birdwatching throughout southern Portugal with a centralised location in a sparsely populated region of unique beauty...
Birds and birding in NW Iberian Peninsula
http://birds-and-birding.blogspot.com/Personal blog by Cosme Damián Romai Cousido centred on birds and birding in Galiza, western Asturies, western Castilla y León and northern Portugal. Records, photos, comments and more are published regularly here.
Kentish Plovers in southern Portugal
http://en.arocha.org/birds/index7.htmlIn the Alvor Estuary of southern Portugal, a considerable breeding population of Kentish Plovers has been found and studied by A Rocha Portugal from Cruzinha, their field study centre...
Nature & Environment
http://www.portugalvirtual.pt/_tourism/costadelisboa/costazul/naturezu.htmlFrom the coast to the interior, the sea to the hills and rolling plains of Setúbal, one can find a series of naturally enchanting values, both socio-economic and cultural; a diversity of which is difficult to find elsewhere...
Portugal Hotspots
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/euportugal.htmThe need to conserve nature, landscape, heritage in harmony with the growing needs of the human population has recently been responsible for the establishing of protected areas, one National Park, two Natural Reserves and an area of Protected landscape.
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Photographer - José Viana - Aves Digital
http://www.geocities.com/jviana_98/Some brilliant images...
Photographer - Octavio Alcantara - Aves Natureza
http://www.avesnatureza.com… mostly of Portuguese birds, fauna and flora, Birding places, articles, material used, photos organised by species…
Photographer - Ricardo Guerreiro - DigiScoping Portugal
http://clientes.netvisao.pt/dgscope/English/Galleries/Birds/01_A_atthis.htmGallery of some excellent phoitographs of birds in Portugal...
Photographer - Sparky Faisca
http://www.flickr.com/photos/faiscaDigisoper from Portugal...
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