Bird watching day tours in Andalucia
| country: | Spain |
| location: | Andalucia |
| departures: | Year round bird watching day tours |
| price: | From €135 (1 day) excluding flights. This price is the cost of tour and is divided between the number of people on the day (maximum of seven). Please note that there is no minimum group size |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
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introduction to Bird watching day tours in Andalucia
Andalucia really has a special magic all of it's own. The whole of this region has such a wonderful warm Mediterranean climate which is extremely rich in bird life. Enjoy a full days quality birding around the very best sites on Andalucia's southern coast with expert local guides with intimate knowledge of the area and up-to-date information on the whereabouts of current species.
Tour normally runs 9am - 6pm, meeting at La Barca de Vejer. The vehicle takes a maximum of 8 passengers, and we stop for lunch at a typical local Spanish venta (restaurant) which costs 8 Euros per head extra. This is great Andalucian cooking - 3 courses - with wine or soft drinks included!
Tour 1: Birding on the Strait of Gibraltar
If you'd like to specialise in raptors for a day tour then we'll take you to where Booted and Short-toed Eagles hunt. We can visit the haunts of Black shouldered Kite, Spanish Imperial Eagle, Long-legged Buzzard, Osprey, Bald Ibis (re-introduction prog.) Marsh or Montagu's Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Merlin, Lesser Kestrel. If you would like to see an amazing variety of waders, terns and gulls then we can look for Collared Pratincoles, Green Sandpipers, Caspian Terns, Audouin's Gulls, to name but a few or all sorts of wonderful passerines, from Orphean Warblers, Rufous Bush Robin, Rock and Cirl Buntings, to Blue Rock Thrush and Tawny Pipit as well as Black-eared Wheatear
Tour 2: 'Culture and Vultures' - The Safari Tour
Andalucia has a rich variety of wildlife, history and culture from the Phoenicians to the Spanish Civil War. Gaze over the the 'Pillars of Hercules' and learn about ancient civilisations. This general nature and history day tour gives clients a real "day to remember". Lizards, Bee-eaters, Preying mantis, all kinds of butterflies, Griffon Vultures, Roe and Red Deer and Iberian black pigs are just some of the creatures waiting to be found and perhaps we'll have a chance to watch the cork-oak harvest in the huge Alcornocales forest during summer. We will see some of the spectacular geology of the area, as Africa still pushes northwards against Europe! We can also visit some minor Roman ruins, Moorish lime kilns and water cisterns as well as the option to visit the larger Roman ruins of the ancient city of Baleo Claudia opposite the Moroccan coast.
Tour normally runs 9am - 6pm, meeting at La Barca de Vejer. The vehicle takes a maximum of 8 passengers, and we stop for lunch at a typical local Spanish venta (restaurant) which costs 8 Euros per head extra. This is great Andalucian cooking - 3 courses - with wine or soft drinks included!
Tour 1: Birding on the Strait of Gibraltar
If you'd like to specialise in raptors for a day tour then we'll take you to where Booted and Short-toed Eagles hunt. We can visit the haunts of Black shouldered Kite, Spanish Imperial Eagle, Long-legged Buzzard, Osprey, Bald Ibis (re-introduction prog.) Marsh or Montagu's Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Merlin, Lesser Kestrel. If you would like to see an amazing variety of waders, terns and gulls then we can look for Collared Pratincoles, Green Sandpipers, Caspian Terns, Audouin's Gulls, to name but a few or all sorts of wonderful passerines, from Orphean Warblers, Rufous Bush Robin, Rock and Cirl Buntings, to Blue Rock Thrush and Tawny Pipit as well as Black-eared Wheatear
Tour 2: 'Culture and Vultures' - The Safari Tour
Andalucia has a rich variety of wildlife, history and culture from the Phoenicians to the Spanish Civil War. Gaze over the the 'Pillars of Hercules' and learn about ancient civilisations. This general nature and history day tour gives clients a real "day to remember". Lizards, Bee-eaters, Preying mantis, all kinds of butterflies, Griffon Vultures, Roe and Red Deer and Iberian black pigs are just some of the creatures waiting to be found and perhaps we'll have a chance to watch the cork-oak harvest in the huge Alcornocales forest during summer. We will see some of the spectacular geology of the area, as Africa still pushes northwards against Europe! We can also visit some minor Roman ruins, Moorish lime kilns and water cisterns as well as the option to visit the larger Roman ruins of the ancient city of Baleo Claudia opposite the Moroccan coast.
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We campaign through fund - raising, publicity, and through promotion ofpublic awareness as to the importance of such an area on the bird migrationroute to and from Africa, and through actively campaigning to the variousgovernments to have the area known as La Janda given some sort of protective status. check out similar holiday ideas...