One of the greatest birding areas in Europe
| Birds and wildlife | in Extremadura |
Thanks for the photos to: Santi Avis, David Morris, Tony Coombs, Juanma Brias, Kalevi Hietaniemi, P-G Bentz, Ken White
Vina las Torres - The best headquarter for birdwatching Extremadura, an excellent place for birders and is situated in the heart of the Lagares Mountains in Caceres province, just 10km outside the historic town of Trujillo, in the center of all of Extremadura’s most important birding areas.
Extremadura has a great deal to offer the travelling and holidaying birdwatcher with plenty of different habitats and many quality species. These include Golden Eagle, Spanish Imperial Eagle, Bonelli’s Eagle, Eagle Owl, Black Vulture, Griffon Vulture, Black-shouldered Kite, Black Kite, Lesser Kestrel, Great and Little Bustards, Montagu’s Harrier, Eurasian Scops Owl, Black Stork, Roller, both Sandgrouse, Peregrine Falcon and many more.
Within 5 minutes walk of the house it is easy to observe Hoopoe, Bee-eater, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Azure-winged Magpie (nesting in the garden), Stone Curlew, Stonechat, Golden Oriole, Short-toed Eagle, Red Kite, White Stork, Serin, Sardinian Warbler, Cirl and Corn Buntings, Woodchat and Southern Grey Shrikes, Blue Rock Thrush, Common Nightingale, and many more. See our bird list of up to 90 species that have been seen around the house (some of them occasionally).
| SCIENTIFIC NAME | ENGLISH | |
| Cyanopica cyana | Azure-winged Magpie | |
| Tyto alba | Barn Owl | |
| Hirundo rustica | Barn Swallow | |
| Milvus migrans | Black Kite | |
| Phoenicurus ochruros | Black Redstart | |
| Pica pica | Black-billed Magpie | |
| Turdus merula | Common Blackbird | |
| Sylvia atricapilla | Blackcap | |
| Larus ridibundus | Black-headed Gull | |
| Monticola solitarius | Blue Rock Thrush | |
| Parus caeruleus | Blue Tit | |
| X | Phylloscopus bonelli | Bonelli’s Warbler |
| Hieraaetus pennatus | Booted Eagle | |
| X | Corvus corone | Carrion Crow |
| Bubulcus ibis | Cattle Egret | |
| Cettia cetti | Cetti’s Warbler | |
| Fringilla coelebs | Common Chaffinch | |
| Emberiza cirlus | Cirl Bunting | |
| Buteo buteo | Common Buzzard | |
| Cuculus canorus | Common Cuckoo | |
| Falco tinnunculus | Common Kestrel | |
| Corvus corax | Common Raven | |
| Saxicola torquata | Common Stonechat | |
| Apus apus | Common Swift | |
| Miliaria calandra | Corn Bunting | |
| Ptyonoprogne rupestris | Crag Martin | |
| Galerida cristata | Crested Lark | |
| X | Sylvia undata | Dartford Warbler |
| X | Neophron percnopterus | Egyptian Vulture |
| Streptopelia decaocto | Eurasian Collared Dove | |
| Gyps fulvus | Eurasian Griffon Vulture | |
| Corvus monedula | Eurasian Jackdaw | |
| Garrulus glandarius | Eurasian Jay | |
| Otus scops | Eurasian Scops Owl | |
| Merops apiaster | European Bee-eater | |
| Erithacus rubecula | European Robin | |
| Serinus serinus | European Serin | |
| Oriolus oriolus | Golden Oriole | |
| Carduelis carduelis | Goldfinch | |
| X | Podiceps cristatus | Great Crested Grebe |
| X | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | Great Reed Warbler |
| Clamator glandarius | Great Spotted Cuckoo | |
| Parus major | Great Tit | |
| Picus viridis | Green Woodpecker | |
| Carduelis chloris | Greenfinch | |
| X | Ardea cinerea Blauwe | Grey Heron |
| Lanius Southern Meridionalis | Grey Shrike | |
| Motacilla cinerea | Grey Wagtail | |
| Coccothraustes coccothraustes | Hawfinch | |
| Upupa epops | Hoopoe | |
| Delichon urbica | House Martin | |
| Passer domesticus | House Sparrow | |
| Falco naumanni | Lesser Kestrel | |
| Carduelis | Cannabina Linnet | |
| X | Tetrax tetrax | Little Bustard |
| X | Egretta garzetta | Little Egret |
| Tachybaptus ruficollis | Little Grebe | |
| Athene noctua | Little Owl | |
| X | Charadrius dubius | Little Ringed Plover |
| Aegithalos caudatus | Long-Tailed Tit | |
| Anas platyrhynchos | Mallard | |
| Anthus pratensis | Meadow Pipit | |
| Hippolais polyglotta | Melodious Warbler | |
| Turdus viscivorus | Mistle Thrush | |
| X | Aegypius monachus | Monk Vulture |
| Gallinula chloropus | Common Moorhen | |
| Oenanthe oenanthe | Northern Wheatear | |
| Milvus milvus | Red Kite | |
| Alectoris rufa | Rode Red-Legged Partridge | |
| Hirundo daurica | Red-rumped Swallow | |
| Columba livia | Rock Pigeon | |
| Luscinia megarhynchos | Rufous Nightingale | |
| Sylvia melanocephala | Sardinian Warbler | |
| Circaetus gallicus | Short-toed Eagle | |
| Certhia brachydactyla | Short-toed Treecreeper | |
| Alauda arvensis | Sky Lark | |
| Passer hispaniolensis | Spanish Sparrow | |
| Sturnus unicolor | Spotless Starling | |
| Burhinus oedicnemus | Stone Curlew | |
| Sylvia cantillans | Subalpine Warbler | |
| Streptopelia turtur | Turtle Dove | |
| Ciconia ciconia | White Stork | |
| Motacilla alba | White Wagtail | |
| Lullula arborea | Wood Lark | |
| Sitta europaea | Wood Nuthatch | |
| Columba palumus | Wood Pigeon | |
| Lanius senator | Woodchat Shrike | |
| Troglodytes troglodytes | Wren | |
| X | Emberiza citrinella | Yellowhammer |
| Cisticola juncidis | Zitting Cisticola | |
| (X) | OCCASIONAL |
