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Birding Holiday in Tavira and the Ria Formosa – Your Nemesis Bird Destination

Self-Drive Birdwatching

Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights

Availability: January - December

Birding in Tavira and Ria Formosa: Your Nemesis Bird Destination is a 5 days Self-Drive Birdwatching Tour based in one of the most typical and quaint towns in the Algarve, Tavira. The Algarve region is a famous summer resort, but is also an amazing site for nature observation, being home to hundreds of endemic bird species, and a wintering and feeding station for many others, which thrive in its rich wetlands, salt marshes, saltpans, and woods.

Highlights

  • Spectacular birding and nature observation in the Ria Formosa Natural Park
  • Traditional Saltpans with numerous tanks, channels, creeks, and drainage ditches, where salt is manually harvested.
  • A fantastic itinerary developed and perfected by keen local birders
  • 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