Birding Holiday in Coastal West Algarve
Self-Drive Birdwatching
From €540,00 pp
Duration: 8 Days / 7 Nights
Availability: January - December
Although famous for being a beach resort with a wonderful year-round climate, the Algarve is also a refuge and a haven for birdlife.
The West Algarve has very diverse habitats – from cliffs to coastal wetlands and from small forest patches to scrub-covered hills. At almost any time of the year, there is something of interest to see!
In this personalized self-drive birding tour, we present a collection of itineraries to birding hotspots, aiming at helping you to get the best birding opportunities!
Highlights
- Spectacular birding and nature observation in hotspots identified by professional local birders
- Excursions to Lagoa dos Salgados, Alvor Estuary, Arade River, Lagoa de S. Lourenço, Ria Formosa Natural Park, Sagres, and Vicentina Coast
- The abundance of species to observe, depending on the season: migrating passerines, especially warblers and hirundines, various raptors, including Black-winged Kite, Marsh Harrier, and Booted Eagle, gulls, herons, egrets, waders, such as Redshank, Greenshank, and Common Sandpiper, passerines, like Yellow Wagtail and Crested Lark, ducks like Northern Shoveler, and Red-crested Pochard, the endangered Red-Billed Chough and Purple Swamp-hen, the lovely Greater Flamingo, Eurasian Spoonbill, Little Bustard, Great Cormorant, and many nesting White Storks.
- Free day for independent exploration
- The amazing Portuguese gastronomy and wines
- Includes all the information and services you need, from detailed route notes to car rental, and a 24h hotline