These are some of the birds we could spot during our trip: Red-legged Partridge, Griffon Vulture, Booted Eagle, Wood Pigeon, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Thekla Lark, Woodlark, Robin, Black Redstart, Black Wheatear, Stonechat, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Blackcap, Western Orphean Warbler, Western Subalpine Warbler, Dartford Warbler, Melodious Warbler, Western Bonelli’s Warbler, Firecrest, Wren, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Crested Tit, Nuthatch, Short-toed Treecreeper, Jay, Chough, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Linnet, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Serin, Cirl Bunting and Rock Bunting.
Itinerary
We will walk across a very well preserved sample of Mediterranean forest composed of Holm and Portuguese Oaks, Aleppo and Maritine Pines, and even a few Spanish Firs, the gems of the Sierra de las Nieves, a nature reserve with Natural Park status in the Andalusian Network of Protected Natural Sites and Birds Directive Special Protection Area (ES6170006) in the European Natura 2000 Network that will soon became the third National Park in Andalusia.
June is a good time to walk in this shady forest, before it gets too hot in midsummer, to enjoy the songs of Woodlarks, the calls of Bonelli’s Warblers and the display dives of the Booted Eagles.
Birds that can be seen
- African stonechat
- Black redstart
- Black wheatear
- Booted eagle
- Cirl bunting
- Common blackbird
- Common chaffinch
- Common cuckoo
- Common firecrest
- Common linnet
- Common wood pigeon
- Dartford warbler
- Eurasian blackcap
- Eurasian blue tit
- Eurasian jay
- Eurasian nuthatch
- European crested tit
- European goldfinch
- European green woodpecker
- European greenfinch
- European robin
- European serin
- Great spotted woodpecker
- Great tit
- Griffon vulture
- House sparrow
- Melodious warbler
- Mistle thrush
- Red-billed chough
- Red-legged partridge
- Rock bunting
- Short-toed treecreeper
- Subalpine warbler
- Thekla lark
- Western bonelli's warbler
- Western orphean warbler
- Woodlark
- Wren