{"id":161706,"date":"2015-05-13T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=d81346fc8e7ed760b69675a318e8ee11"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:55:08","slug":"highlights-from-this-years-spring-tour-on-the-strait-of-gibraltar-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/highlights-from-this-years-spring-tour-on-the-strait-of-gibraltar-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from this year’s Spring Tour on The Strait of Gibraltar – April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a quick photo summary of some of the birds we watched down in Andalucia on one of my spring birdwatching tours.<\/p>\n

Each spring we offer such small tour group holidays to go out in the field and see what bird species are arriving from Africa.<\/p>\n

The close proximity of the two continents makes this one of the best places to watch concentrated avian migration and it really is a spectacular setting all throughout Cadiz province in southern Andalucia, Spain to learn about birds and bird behaviour.<\/p>\n

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Short-toed Eagle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Booted Eagle, light or commoner form<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Booted Eagle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cattle Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Greater Flamingoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Eurasian Spoonbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pallid Harrier, a rare sighting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yellow Wagtails feeding with Retinto cattle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Zitting Cisticola watches insects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Eurasian Sparrowhawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Squacco Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Subalpine Warbler, male<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tawny Pipit feeding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White Storks arriving in Europe. Morocco is in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Purple Swamphen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Black-eared Wheatear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bonelli’s Eagle (centre) flanked by two Griffon Vultures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Booted Eagle attempts to get airborne with a rabbit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The same Booted Eagle as above<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Little Swift at Chipiona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lesser Kestrel at the colony at the rear of Hotel El Palomar de La Bre\u00f1a, Barbate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gull-billed Tern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Griffon Vulture on the R\u00edo Guadalquivir near Trebujena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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(Greater) Short-toed Lark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Montagu’s Harrier, male<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Northern Bald Ibis at Barbate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our only migrating woodpecker, the Wryneck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A quite large looking female Woodchat Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photographers are very welcome to join such tours. More details of both the spring and autumn migration tours as well as other European destinations can be found at andalucianguides.com\/tours<\/p>\n

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