Birding Holidays Under Blue Skyes: The Great Bustard Adventure
Self-Drive Birdwatching
Duration: 8 Days / 7 Nights
Availability: January - December
Birding Under Blue Skies: The Great Bustard Adventure is a Self-Drive Birdwatching Tour, designed by professional local birders to help you see as much of the avifauna and flora as possible, including the enigmatic Great Bustard! In order to fully enjoy this personalized tour, you’ll be lodged in the heart of Monte Gordo, with easy access to a wealth of bird observation settings, beyond any birder’s life list!
Highlights
- The opportunity to observe the Great Bustard is one of the few places in Europe where they live and breed in large flocks.
- Traditional Saltpans with numerous tanks, channels, creeks, and drainage ditches, where salt is manually harvested.
- Spectacular birding in the Ria Formosa Natural Park
- Visit the Castro Marim Natural Reserve
- A fantastic itinerary developed and perfected by professional local birders
- Abundant species: Oystercatchers, Avocets, Dunlins, Little Stint, Wigeon, Shoveler, 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