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Spain
The impressive abundance of birds that can be found in Spain is due both to its geographical location (it is a natural route between the European Continent and Africa) and its varied landscapes and climates. Over 456 different species of birds are quoted - 285 breeding - some of them having here their last European strongholds. This is the case with Purple Gallinule (3,500 pairs); White-headed Duck (1,164 individuals) and Marbled Teal (250 pairs); and they are on the increase in most of the Iberian wetlands. Other species, like raptors, are also recovering: Lammergeier (+80 cc.); Griffon Vulture (16,590 cc.); Golden Eagle (+1,200 cc.). Places to stay, local organisations, reserves, reading etc. etc. are all now available on Spanish regional pages - see below... |
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Most Spanish regions offer some wonderful birding locations whether it be the Albufera of Mallorca or Cota Donana in Andalucia. See the individual regional pages for the best places to go birding.contributor |
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Marcial Yuste Blasco
Moro Marsh Nature Reserve Ornithologist
myb@provicom.com
SpainBirding
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Gu?a de las Aves de Espa?a
Eduardo de Juana & Juan M. Varela ? Lynx Edicions. Pub. 2000. ?9.00See Fatbirder Review
Travellers` Nature Guides: Spain
By Teresa Farino & Mike Lockwood - ?16.99 Oxford University PressSee Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 0198504357
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Where the birds are in northeast Spain
by Steve West illustrated by Ernest Leahy and others 2004ISBN: 8460915999
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Where to Watch Birds in Spain: The 100 best sites
Jos? Antonio Montero et al (2005) Lynx Ediciones 341pp ?18:50See Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 8496553043
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Proact
Coordinator: none (why not apply?)
see http://www.proact-campaigns.net/coordinators
Members: 10
Join us at http://www.proact-campaigns.net/team
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Fundacion Natura
http://www.fundacionatura.org/La Fundació Natura és la primera ONG creada a Catalunya dedicada exclusivament a la conservació de la diversitat biològica mitjançant la protecció, millora i restauració dels ecosistemes naturals...
Proyecto AVIS
http://www.proyectoavis.com/Sistema de registro y consulta de citas de aves en Península Ibérica, Baleares y Canarias...
Sociedad Espanola de Ornitologia
http://www.seo.orgMelqulades Biencinto 34, E-28053 Madrid. + 34 91 434091 asanchez@seo.org
English language version under construction
Spain Birding
http://welcome.to/spainbirdingSPAIN BIRDING is a naturalistic organization dedicated to the study and preservation of birds. For the last 20 years their members have been carrying out census of waterbirds, bird ringing and faunistic studies in natural areas of Spain. It offers Bird Guides, especially in Spain and Catalonia (NE Spain)and proposes ornithological programs during some days in the best natural zones in Catalonia (NE Spain). This programs alternate trips from high mountains, waterlands, steppes, mediterranian forest, etc... In these places we can observe species like the Griffon Vulture, Golden Eagle, Egyptian Vulture, Lammergeier, Bittern, Squacco Heron, Greater Flamingo, White Stork, Purple Gallinule, Audouin`s Gull, Slender-billed Gull, Pratincole, Black-winged Stilt, Fan-tailed Warbler, Bee-eater, Roller, Moustached Warbler, Citril Finch, Rock Thrush, Blue Rock Thrush, Alpine Accentor, Sardinian Warbler, Dartford Warbler, etc. It is also easy to observe interesting mammals like Spanish Ibex, Chamois, Mouflon, Alpine Marmot, etc.
Spanish Rarities Committee
http://www.rarebirdspain.net/Rare Birds in Spain - news etc...
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National Parks
http://www.in-spain.info/special-features/national-parks.htmBrief pieces on many of the parks...
National Parks
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20of%20National%20Parks%20in%20SpainA total of 1,226 square kms. of the 500,000 that make up Spain have been set aside as National Parks...
Wetlands
http://www.ramsar.orgSpain presently has 49 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance, with a surface area of 172,980 hectares...
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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!
2002 Spain Expedition
http://www.geocities.com/avgspain/Excellent report on this extensive coverage of Spain...
2002 [September] - Ian Barthorpe & Tim Strudwick - Southern Spain
http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/Spain/tour6/Spain-sept02.htmFlew into Málaga, collected hire car and departed towards El Rocío. Planned to stop on route at El Torcal (MA5). First stop in fields soon after leaving main Malaga-Antequerra road. Passerine flocks here contained Crested Larks, Linnets and Goldfinches, with several Red-rumped Swallows overhead...
2003 [March] - David Mason - Pyrenees, Picos de Europa & Extremadura
http://www.realbirder.com/spainreport.htmHaving decided on Spain as our spring birding holiday destination, we planned a route taking in as many as possible of the recognised birding sites of Extremadura, the Pyrenees and the Picos de Europa, not really paying much attention to the distances we would have to drive. We travelled with our friends Pat & Judy Hayes and in this report we have attempted to highlight the birds likely to be encountered on a similar journey at the same time of the year...
2003 [May] - Ben A Miller - Central and Western Spain
http://www.beolens.co.uk/trip-reports/SpainBM.htmlMay 2003 my father, Alan (AKM), and I were due to travel to Beidaihe, China, for a 3-week birding trip. Unfortunately this trip was cancelled with just over a weeks notice due to the spread of the SARS disease. With time booked off work, we both wanted to arrange an alternative birding trip. We identified the Extremadura area of Spain to provide a quick and easy-to-plan replacement with the opportunity of new birds....
2004 [February] - Stuart Piner - Northern, Central and Southern Spain
http://www.surfbirds.com/mb/trips/spain-sp-0304.htmlJust prior to Christmas 2003, whilst at a university drinks outing, James Gilroy informed me he was planning a Spanish trip in early 2004, and asked me if I would like to be on the team. Having only ever lifted my bins outside Britain on one previous occasion I jumped at the chance to give my Western Palaearctic list a much needed kick start and hopefully gain some vital experience with potential British vagrants...
2005 [May] - Gruff Dodd
http://www.surfbirds.com/trip_report.php?id=700I have had an ambition for some time to try to see all the regularly breeding and wintering birds in Europe, and over the years I have whittled down the number I have left to see to just 11. I therefore decided to make a short trip over to Central Spain over the bank holiday weekend in order to try to tick off two of these, namely Little Bustard and Western Orphean Warbler. I was also keen to see the Iberian race of Green Woodpecker, as well as trying to locate 2 vagrants, Bald Ibis and Long-legged Buzzard (of the North African race cirtensis) that had been seen recently in the Belén area...
2006 [April] - Lutz Lucker - Extremadura & NW Spain
http://louiscrex.skyblog.com/First nights camping rough , then Hotel Rosales in Malpartida de Plasencia and Motorway Motel El Cruce, 10 kms north of Trujillo between la Aldea and Torrecillas...
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Anytime Tours
http://www.anytimetours.co.uk/Fatbirder's very own birding tours offered to a number of areas of Spain... see the relevant regional page for details...
Birding Pal
http://www.birdingpal.org/Spain.htmLocal birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...
Boletas Birdwatching - Birding in North East Spain
http://www.boletas.org/BOLETAS (Egyptian Vulture in the local language) was formed in 1994, a stroke of luck enables us to live our long-awaited dream; install ourselves in the peaceful rural village of Loporzano, in the midst of one of the best birding areas in the Iberian Peninsula dedicating ourselves exclusively to our interest in birds
Guides
http://www.wild-spain.com/A list of nature/bird guides etc. Go to Directory and then birdwatching...
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...
Ornisun
http://www.ornisun.com/ORNISUN BIRDWATCHING HOLIDAYS aim to provide a friendly, reliable and rewarding birdwatching holiday for our clients. Our experience of over 40 years watching birds in southern Spain and Gibraltar is invaluable when it comes to knowing where to go and when. Our holidays are structured in such a way so that we hope to see most of our target birds at least during one of our five tour days...
Pico Verde Walking Holidays
http://www.picoverde.comPico Verde Walking Holidays offer guided, self-led and independent walking holidays in northern Spain. Although they don`t offer bird-watching holidays, they have a slideshow section on their website which has pictures of over 270 birds of the area along with their songs.
South Birds
http://www.contexto.com/Guided birdwatching in Spain [Extremadura and Andalucía], Portugal and Morroco.
Spain Birds
http://www.spainbirds.com/SPAINBIRDS is a small company which efforts are appointed to organize ornithology tours over all spanish geography. Its expert leader, Santiago Villa, has a deep knowledge about iberian birds. Natural Parks as Doñana, Cabañeros and Monfragüe are his favourite spots, in which he has spent unforgettable moments, and also there, there is one of the most vulnerable raptors of the world: Spanish Imperial Eagle. Species that he knows very well, in fact he controlled a pair for two breeding season in the Monte de El Pardo. In spite of that he was born in Madrid, he is very bound to Extremadura by strong affection since he was a child, due to his parents were born in Membrio, a little village placed between Sierra de San Pedro and Llanos de Brozas, with no doubt, two of the best conserved places in Europe.
Spanish Nature s.l.
http://www.birdphotography.eu/Spanish%20nature/spanish_nature_eng.htmPeter Jones 57 years old, a well known biologist and birdguide living in the Serrania the Ronda…
Walks in Spain
http://www.walksinspain.com/index.html...we will be walking through the flat coastal wetlands and natural reserve of L`Albufera. We will be walking along the seashore through mobile sand dunes and pine forest interspersed with dried salt ponds and lagoons eventually arriving at a viewpoint with magnificent vistas across L`Albufera Lake. Finally we arrive at the Raco de Ora nature reserve where we have the opportunity to see some of the 250 different bird species that visit here...
Wingspan Bird Tours
http://www.wingspanbirdtours.com/WINGSPAN BIRD TOURS offer a range of exciting bird-watching holidays throughout Spain ranging from day trips to 7-day full package tours. With Wingspan you will visit the best bird-watching sites and see a good variety of the representative species of each area visited...
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Boletus Birdwatching Centre - Pyrenees
http://www.boletas.org/Birdwatching Centre in the Spanish Pyrenees, we inform birders where to go and we organize tours in the northeast of Spain...
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Birdwatch-Spain
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/birdwatch-spainTo post to list:birdwatch-spain@yahoogroups.com
List contact:birdwatch-spain-owner@yahoogroups.com
To subscribe to list:birdwatch-spain-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Mailing List – Discussion Group - An English language list about bird watching in Spain. Fledgling birders to rabid twitchers - all welcome. If your bird is in Spain this is your list.
HispanAves el Foro sobre Ornitología y Desarrollo Sostenible
http://hispanaves.superforos.com/Todo sobre la ornitología de España y Europa [Spanish Bird Forum]
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Ardeola
http://www.ardeola.org/Ardeola is the scientific journal of the Spanish Society of Ornithology (Sociedad Española de Ornitología, SEO/BirdLife). Three main topics are specially encouraged: ornithological studies carried out in the areas of Mediterranean climate and in the Neotropics, and applied studies dealing with the conservation of birds and their habitats. The Editorial staff will promote rapid publication of peer-reviewed manuscripts.
Birding in Spain
http://www.birdinginspain.comBirds and Birding Tours in northeast Spain: Plan your Birding trip to Catalonia, Aragon and Navarra..
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.
Birds in Spain
http://www.iberianature.com/material/birdsspain.htmAround 337 birds breed in Spain out of the total of 520 for Europe. More than 500 species are present at some time during the year. Officially (according to SEO) there are some 557 species listed for Spain (and rising). However, many of these are occasionals, vagrants or exotics. 250 odd are regular nesters...
Birds of the Iberian Peninsula
http://www.sao-albacete.org/espinglA.htmList of Spanish birds in English and Spanish.
BLOG - César Vidal Rodríguez - Aves do Val Minor
http://avesdominhor.blogspot.com/Moi boas, a todos. Este blog pretendo usalo como caderno de campo e como noticiario (o mais actualizado posíbel), das aves vistas nestes tres concellos (Baiona, Gondomar e Nigrán)ou o que e o mesmo; O Val Miñor. Por suposto observación de aves interesantes noutros lugares de Galiza tamén estarán neste blog...
Cinerea
http://www.cinerea.org/Os damos la bienvenida a Cinerea.org, una página web dedicada exclusivamente al mundo de las aves y la ornitología...
Convenio Ramsar
http://www.ramsar.org/1996 - 1999 Ramsar Convention. This is the official Web site of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and is maintained by the treaty secretariat, or Bureau. Material from the Ramsar pages may be reproduced freely for educational, journalistic, and other non-commercial purposes. The Bureau is always pleased to receive notification and/or samples of such uses. For commercial uses of Ramsar material or logos, please contact the Ramsar Bureau.
El Ornitólogo.com
http://www.elornitologo.es/foro/index.phpEl Ornitólogo.com pone en marcha la Guía Visual de Aves. Noviembre 2006. El objetivo de este proyecto es el poder ofrecer una guía detallada de las principales Aves de la Península Ibérica junto a una pequeña descripción de la misma, intentando mostrar en todo momento la imagen más representativa de la especie (pose, plumaje, jóvenes, adultos, etc.)...
Guia Práctica de las Aves de España
http://www.redfind.com/gb/guest.php?uname=carfergGreat source of general Spannish birding - in Spannish
Iberia nature
http://www.iberianature.comA guide to the environment, geography, climate, wildlife, natural history and landscape of Spain. Includes A-Z Spanish-English nature dictionary, dozens of articles on everything from the history of malaria in Spain to the status of wolves, checklists of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, etc...
Rare Birds in Spain
http://www.rarebirdspain.net/home.htmIt contains information on the activities of our Rarities Committee despite this it`s not its official web page. It also features monthly abstracts of the best bird sightings here...
The Peregrine in Barcelona
http://www.falconsbarcelona.net/Falco11/en_pagines/index.htmPeregrine reintroduction in Barcelona...
Web Oryx
http://www.weboryx.com/Spain`s leading nature store...
Wild Spain
http://www.wild-spain.com/Away from the cities and the tourist resorts there is another, more serene, Spanish outdoor scene. A diverse and contrasting land of mountains and plains, forests and deserts, little known waterways and hidden coastlines. And the best wildlife in Europe. Use our fact files, tips and hints, and explore Wild Spain - you might be surprised.
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Artist - Gebbe Björkman
http://www.gebbe.com/Art & Nature
Artist - Manuel Sosa
http://manuelsosa.com/Manuel Sosa is biologist, musician and Wildlife painter… This site has some excellent oil paintings of birds, especially raptors. ...his paintings of birds are simply superb – I have one on my sitting room wall! Fatbirder
Artist - Pep Cantó
http://www.galeon.com/pepcanto/enlaces.htmWildlife art gallery
Digiscoping - Daniscoping
http://www.daniscoping.comThe aim of this site that is focused on digiscoping is the spreading of Nature by means of pictures of birds in Spain. As far as possible, the web will be updated at least once a week by adding improved pictures and new species to the galleries. There are usually more than one photo of each species. Just click the thumbnails In each gallery to see the original pictures...
Digiscoping - Digiscoping España
http://usuarios.lycos.es/pardelas/Usar una cámara digital con un telescopio para hacer fotografías de naturaleza...
Gallery - Bird Photography
http://www.birdphotography.eu/index.htmlI am setting up photo-archives of birds in Spain, already 217 photos of 87 different species can be found. Go and have a look yourself…
Gallery - Fotos De Aves
http://personal.redestb.es/puffin/fotos.htm#2En cada foto se indica el nombre del autor cuando se conoce, así como el tamaño en Kb de la fotografía que puede visualizarse a gran tamaño haciendo clic en el enlace.
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