This 10.5 km long route takes us to a colony of breeding lesser Kestrels and their feeding grounds.
- LENGTH:
This route has a total length of 10.5 km. - ROUTE DESCRIPTION:
It starts at the Information Point and Environmental Education Centre. From here, we enter the village and head for the church. Here we can watch their aerial manoeuvres as they swoop around and fly into and out of their nesting holes in the church walls. The route continues along streets, roads and tracks. It encircles the municipality passing through crops, grazing pastures and uncultivated land. - AMENITIES:
An information board about the Lesser Kestrel colony SPA is located at the church. The route is not signposted, but offers no chance of error.
- OBSERVATIONS:
Avoid the periods of strongest sunlight.
- OBSERVABLE BIRDS:
Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
Common kestrel Falco tinnunculus
Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
Eurasian Scops Owl Otus scops
Tamed Rock Dove Columba livia var. domestica
Common Magpie Pica pica
Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
White Wagtail Motacilla alba
Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis
European Serin Serinus serinus
Common Linnet Linaria cannabina
European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis
Woodlark Lullula arborea
Crested Lark Galerida cristata
Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra
Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra
European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola
Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor
Western Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
