Group visit - May 2007

May 27th - June 3rd 2007

This week focusses on the following areas:

• Ruta de las cigüeñas - the Stork Route. An extraordinary concentration of White Stork nests.
• Large numbers of Black Kite, and Marsh and Hen Harrier, Black-shouldered Kite, Golden Eagle
• Spain's largest concentration of nesting Lesser Kestrel at Acedera (just by our hotel)
• the unique area of steppe called La Serena to see nesting Montagu's Harrier, Great and Little Bustard, Sandgrouse, Collared Pratincole, Stone Curlew, Larks
• Trujillo and Monfragüe
• the RAMSAR area of the Orellana reservoir, with colony of Gull-billed Tern
• valley of the Zújar for Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Purple Heron, Night Heron, Bee-eater,
• the great cliff at Puerto Peña to see the Griffon Vulture, Black Vulture, Egyptian Vulture and Black Stork
• Mérida and Cornalvo. Mérida has the best Roman remains in Spain and a wealth of bird life along the banks of the Guadiana river. Cornalvo is a Natural Park centred round a Roman reservoir. It has large numbers of Azure-winged Magpie, raptors, acuatic species and waders. We will be given an introductory talk at the Reserve's Centro de Interpretación.
• Villuercas and Guadalupe. This is the mountainous area in the north of the area.
• Sierra de Pela for warblers and raptors - this is an area of Mediterranean woodland which has the status of a ZEPA (Area of Special Protection for Birds)