 ANDALUCIA
Spanish specialities and autumn migration
Sunday 21 September - Sunday 28 September 2008
Price: £1195 pp Single Supplement: £90 pp Deposit: £300 pp
 
Price includes return scheduled flight from London – Andalucia,
airport taxes, ground transportation, comfortable en-suite hotel accommodation,
all meals, incidental tips, and the services of Leader Ian Ford, joined
by another from our main guiding team with more than 7 clients. Max 14
clients.
More raptors migrate across the Straits of Gibraltar annually than any
other site in Europe. Counts suggest upwards of 200,000 pass between July
and November, plus over 100,000 White Stork and all of Western Europe`s
Black Stork. A daily stream of thousands filter southwards through Spain,
with concentrations in different places according to the weather. If the
weather is unsuitable for passage, birds continue to funnel into the area
each day until there may be 10,000 individuals waiting to cross the Straits.
Our guides know where to look for these waiting birds.
Target raptors for the week include Honey Buzzard, Black Kite, Red Kite,
Egyptian Vulture, Griffon Vulture, Short-toed Eagle, Bonelli`s Eagle,
Booted Eagle, Montagu`s Harrier, Lesser Kestrel and Spanish Imperial Eagle.
Golden Eagle, Black Vulture, Eleonora’s Falcon, Blackwinged Kite,
and Long-legged Buzzard are also possible.
Local species include Marbled Teal, White-headed Duck, Redknobbed Coot,
Purple Gallinule, Greater Flamingo, Glossy Ibis and Penduline Tit in the
wet “marismas”, Balearic Shearwater, Cory`s Shearwater, Audouin`s
Gull, Slender-billed Gull, Caspian Tern and Lesser Crested Tern on the
coast, Azurewinged Magpie, Spotless Starling and Spanish Sparrow inland
and other birds including migrating Alpine Swift, Pallid Swift, Crag Martin,
Red-Rumped Swallow, Hoopoe and Bee-eater. There is a good variety of habitat
from rocky and sandy seacoast, marsh, lagoon and rice-fields, to cork-oak
woods, rich scrubland and hilly sierras, all of which we will explore.
Our base is a family-run hotel in Zahara de Los Atunes, a small fishing
town on the Atlantic coast north of Tarifa.
Please note: all itineraries are given as a guide only. Actual
holiday content may vary according to the judgement of your guide, and
elements beyond our control (eg weather).
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