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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.Marcial Yuste Blasco
Moro Marsh Nature Reserve Ornithologist
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SpainBirding
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Number of bird species: 554
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Guia de las Aves de Espana
Eduardo de Juana & Juan M. Varela - Lynx Edicions 2010See 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 Northern & Eastern Spain
Michael Rebane & Ernest Garcia - 2nd edition 2008 Christopher HelmISBN: 0713683147
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Where to Watch Birds in Southern & Western Spain
Ernest Garcia and Andrew Paterson. 3rd edition 2008 - Christopher HelmISBN: 0713653019
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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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Fundacion Natura
WebsiteLa 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...
Grupo de anillamiento Pit-roig
WebsiteGrupo ornitológico dedicado al anillamiento científico de aves, especialmente paseriformes. Creado oficialmente en 2004, sus actividades se inician bastante tiempo atrás. Actualmente está formado por más de una decena de anilladores expertos y específicos que enfocan esta actividad al desarrollo de diversos proyectos científicos de importancia nacional y local. [Dedicated to bird ringing activities in Eastern Spain. Birding, ringing and migration projects information…]
Proyecto AVIS
WebsiteSistema de registro y consulta de citas de aves en Península Ibérica, Baleares y Canarias...
Sociedad Española de Ornitología
WebsiteMelquiades Biencinto 34, E-28053 Madrid. + 34 91 4340910 seo@seo.org
Spanish Rarities Committee
WebsiteRare Birds in Spain - news etc...
Museo National de Cienias Naturales CSIC
http://www.vertebradosibericos.org/aves.htmlBird List, Atlas etc...
National Parks
WebsiteBrief pieces on many of the parks...
National Parks
WebsiteA total of 1,226 square kms. of the 500,000 that make up Spain have been set aside as National Parks...
Wetlands
WebsiteSpain presently has 49 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance, with a surface area of 172,980 hectares...
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2002 [September] - Ian Barthorpe & Tim Strudwick - Southern Spain
ReportFlew 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 & Amanda Mason – Pyrenees, Picos de Europa & Extremadura
ReportWe enjoyed good weather and had an excellent time, seeing some super birds on the way, with a total of 153 species for the trip, 12 of which were lifers...
2004 [February] - Stuart Piner - Northern, Central and Southern Spain
ReportJust 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
ReportI 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
ReportFirst 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...
2006 [May] – David & Amanda Mason – Extremadura and Donana
ReportIn birding terms a memorable 10 days with 179 species seen in total including 3 lifers (plus a further 4 species only heard)...
2007 [September] - Robin Griffiths
ReportThe group arrived on time and we quickly loaded up the buses and set off on the two hour journey to El Rocio in the Coto Donana. We dropped our belongings into our rooms at the Hotel Toruno and ate dinner at 10pm amidst growling thunder and spectacular lightening with bouts of torrential rain...
2008 [January] - Alan Jack
ReportCheap flights ,car hire and accommodation make a long February weekend in Spain a very affordable, welcome escape from the dreary, cold of north east England. Five days is just enough time to fit in both the famous Coto Donana and the steppe and hill country of Extremadura, the two sites some five hours drive apart...
2011 [May] - Alan Jack - Spanish Pyrenees
Report...We found there had been a bit of a fall , as the woods held a good selection of migrant passerines, including two Wood Warblers, Redstarts, Pied and Spotted flycatchers, Chiffchaffs and Willow Warbler, as well as Golden Oriole, Green Woodpecker, Coal Tit and Short toed Treecreeper...
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Anytime Tours
Tour OperatorFatbirder's very own birding tours offered to a number of areas of Spain... see the relevant regional page for details...
Aquila Bird Tours
Tour OperatorAquila Bird Tours is an independent bird tour company offering high quality tours in Spain, the UK and other areas of the Western Palaearctic. Located on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, we have been able to explore this area which is famed for its internationally important coastal wetlands and spectacular breeding species. Our aim is to provide tours that suit enthusiasts of all levels by using local knowledge and our experience to ensure you are not disappointed...
Barcelona Birding Point
Tour OperatorBarcelona Birding Point is your gateway to birding and nature in South Europe. This project was created in 2010 as a means of promoting birding tourism as well as the protection and enjoyment of birds and their environments…
Birding Pal
InformationLocal birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...
Boletas Birdwatching - Birding in North East Spain
Tour OperatorBOLETAS (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
Iberian Wildlife Tours
Tour OperatorWe 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...
Oriole Birding
Tour OperatorA UK-based company specialising in bird watching tours of Norfolk and Wales, and a wide range of other UK destinations, a comprehensive programme of tours worldwide. Neil Donaghy and Ashley Saunders have over nineteen years experience between them, running their own companies Celtic Bird Tours and Oriole Adventures, before merging the two to create this new venture which offers complete bird tour packages. Value for money, genuinely small groups and great birds.
Ornisun
Tour OperatorORNISUN 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
Tour OperatorPico 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.
Rockjumper Birding Tours
Tour OperatorSpain offers a wide range of Mediterranean habitats along with safe, easy and excellent birding. Our tour concentrates on the semi-arid steppes and cork-oak dehesas of the interior, the scenic Sierras and high alpine Pyrenees, and the Ebro River Delta wetlands on the Mediterranean coast.
Spain Birds
Tour OperatorSPAINBIRDS 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.
GuidePeter Jones 57 years old, a well known biologist and birdguide living in the Serrania the Ronda…
Walks in Spain
Tour Operator...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
Tour OperatorWINGSPAN BIRD TOURS offer a range of exciting bird-watching holidays and Bird Tours throughout Spain, Morocco, Lesvos and Portugal. Our Bird-watching breaks range from day trips in Andalucia to 10 days in Morocco. We cater for beginners and accomplished birders alike, we offer good value, good company and great birding...
Boletus Birdwatching Centre - Pyrenees
AccommodationBirdwatching Centre in the Spanish Pyrenees, we inform birders where to go and we organize tours in the northeast of Spain...
Birdwatch-Spain
Mailing ListTo post to list:birdwatch-spain@yahoogroups.com
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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
ForumTodo sobre la ornitología de España y Europa [Spanish Bird Forum]
Territorio Natural
Mailing ListOrnitología,Medio Ambiente y Naturaleza en general – Spanish Bird Forum…
A través del Telescopio
BlogEn este blog también iremos hablando y comentando nuestras jornadas de anillamiento científico, sobre todo en la Estación de Las Minas, cerca de San Martín de la Vega y junto al río Jarama...
Alfonso Rodrigo - Extreme Birding España
BlogVivencias de un pajarero que ejerce en toda España y parte del extranjero. Alfonso Rodrigo…
Aves de Aquí y de Allá
BlogBlog about birding and Ringing in Spain. By Álex Alamán…
AVES EN ESPAÑA
BlogPhotoblog of birds in spain...
Aves Ricardo Rodriguez
BlogBlog de las aves vistas y fotografiados Ricardo Rodrigues...
Birding the Costa
Blog'Birding the Costa' is a blog spot for English speaking birders anywhere in Andalucía whose Spanish is not up to scratch. It is not just about rarities, although details will be posted of these...
César Vidal Rodríguez - Aves do Val Minor
BlogMoi 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...
El blog de ASEDI
BlogA Spanish digiscoping BLOG
Extreme Birding Espana
BlogSpannish birding BLOG…
Guiri-Pajarero-Suelto
BlogSpanish language birding blog....
Noroeste ibérico
BlogA blog about the biodiversity of the NW of the Iberian peninsula…
Pico y PLumas
BlogBiólogo de bota, como suele decirse. Amante de la Naturaleza y la fotografía. Y con muchos pájaros en la cabeza. Hay que decir que este blog es solo provisional hasta terminar la página oficial…
Ardeola
WebsiteArdeola 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. (ALL papers are exclusively in English)
Birding in Spain
WebsiteBirds and Birding Tours in northeast Spain: Plan your Birding trip to Catalonia, Aragon and Navarra..
Birds in Spain
WebsiteAround 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
WebsiteList of Spanish birds in English and Spanish.
Carduelis carduelis
WebsitePictures of birds taken around Spain
Cinerea
WebsiteOs damos la bienvenida a Cinerea.org, una página web dedicada exclusivamente al mundo de las aves y la ornitología...
Convenio Ramsar
Website1996 - 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.
Enciclopedia virtual de los vertebrados Espanoles - Museo National de Cienias Naturales CSIC
WebsiteLista de las aves de España, Atlas Virtual de las aves de España etc.
Group of banding bird in Spain
WebsiteBirds migration and banding birds in South Spain…
Iberia nature
WebsiteA 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...
Radiotracking Spain
WebsiteRadiotracking birds in Spain….
Rare Birds in Spain
WebsiteIt 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...
Reservoir Birds
WebsiteBest source for rare bird news in Spain...
The Peregrine in Barcelona
WebsitePeregrine reintroduction in Barcelona...
Web Oryx
WebsiteSpain's leading nature store...
Artist - Gebbe Björkman
GalleryArt & Nature
Artist - Manuel Sosa
GalleryManuel 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
GalleryWildlife art gallery
Digiscoping - Daniscoping
GalleryThe 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
GalleryUsar una cámara digital con un telescopio para hacer fotografías de naturaleza...
Gallery - ASEDI – Digiscoping Gallery
GalleryDigiscoping Gallery of Spanish bird photography
Gallery - Fotos De Aves
GalleryEn 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.
Gallery - Quedada Natural
GalleryFotografía de Naturaleza. Guía Qn de las Aves de España…
Photographer - Daniel Meraviglia
GalleryBird photographs
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