Extremadura has a great deal to offer the travelling and holidaying birdwatcher with plenty of different habitats and many quality species. These include Spanish Imperial and Bonelli's Eagles, Eurasian Griffon and Eurasian Black Vultures, Black-shouldered and Black Kites, Lesser Kestrel, Great and Little Bustards, Montagu's Harrier, Eurasian Scops Owl, Black Stork, Roller, both Sandgrouse and many more.
In winter good numbers of ducks and waders can be found in the wetlands
Vina las Torres - 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.
Within 5 minutes walk of the Hotel it is easy to observe Bee-eater, Stone Curlew, Stonechat, Golden Oriole, Short-toed Eagle, Great Spotted Cuckoo and Azure-winged Magpie (nesting in the garden), Red Kite, White Stork, Serin, Hoopoe, 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 Hotel (some of them occasionally).
Bird List at Vina las Torres and surrounds
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 Phylloscopus bonelli Bonelli's Warbler Hieraaetus pennatus Booted Eagle 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 Sylvia undata Dartford Warbler 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 Podiceps cristatus Great Crested Grebe Acrocephalus arundinaceus Great Reed Warbler Clamator glandarius Great Spotted Cuckoo Parus major Great Tit Picus viridis Green Woodpecker Carduelis chloris Greenfinch 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 Tetrax tetrax Little Bustard Egretta garzetta Little Egret Tachybaptus ruficollis Little Grebe Athene noctua Little Owl 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 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 palumbus Wood Pigeon Lanius senator Woodchat Shrike Troglodytes troglodytes Wren Emberiza citrinella Yellowhammer Cisticola juncidis Zitting Cisticola
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