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| Roller Coracius garrulus |
I've just finished co-leading a birding tour for
Limosa to Extremadura and the Coto Donana in Spain with
Fernando Enrique.
It was a superb week's birding with many highlights. Extremadura was full of raptors including Bonelli's, Golden, Spanish Imperial, Short-toed and Booted Eagles, many Montagu's Harriers and vultures galore (including Black and Egyptian).
Bustards are of course a major attraction in Extremadura and we saw many Little Bustards as well as some large (20+) gatherings of Greats.
A marvellous morning was spent watching raptors in Monfrague NP with vultures leaving their roost, Black Wheatear, Spanish Imperial Eagle on the nest and much more.
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| Eurasian Griffon Gyps fulvus |
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| Eurasian Griffons (centre) between Black Vultures Aegypius monachus |
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| Black Stork Ciconia ciconia nesting. |
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| Rock Bunting Emberiza cia |
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| Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius |
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| Eurasian Griffons leaving the rock viewed from Salto de Gitano in Monfrague NP. |
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