Watching The Blue Skies Of Monte Gordo Birdwatching Holiday
Self-Drive Birdwatching
Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
Availability: January - December
Watching The Blue Skies Of Monte Gordo is a 5 days Self-Drive Birdwatching Tour, designed by professional local birders. The Algarve is so much more than miles of golden beaches, golf courses, and a wonderful year-round climate! It is still a largely unknown destination for great birding, and at almost any time of the year, there is something of interest to see!
Highlights
- Spectacular birding and nature observation in the Ria Formosa Natural Park
- Visit the Castro Marim Natural Reserve and other wet areas
- Traditional Saltpans with numerous tanks, channels, creeks, and drainage ditches, where salt is manually harvested.
- Opportunity to observe the Great Bustard in one of the few places in Europe where they live and breed in large flocks
- Abundant species: Oystercatchers, Avocets, Dunlins, Little Stint, Wigeon, Sholever, Pintail, Pochard, Greater Flamingo, Glossy Ibis, Eurasian Spoonbill, Black-winged Kite, Caspian Tern, Bluethroat, Penduline Tit, Purple Swamphen, Little Bittern, Purple Heron, Collared Pratincole, Audouin’s Gull, Little Tern, Eurasian Thick-knee, Little Bustard, Pallid Swift, Spectacled Warbler, European Bee-eater and Black-eared Wheatear.
- The amazing Portuguese gastronomy and wines
- Includes all the information and services you need, from detailed route notes to a 24h hotline