Birdwatching tours in Spain and, more specifically, in the Gredos Mountains, in central western Spain, are one of the alternatives in nature that have had the greatest number of new adepts in the last decades. They bring to nature lovers beautiful landscapes, and a great diversity of habitats and birds.
Our birdwatching tours in Spain will take us not only to the Gredos but also to the surrounding areas such as the steppes of the northern plateau and the dehesas to the south of the mountains. Birds that can be seen during our birdwatching tours in Spain in the cereal growing steppe area known as La Moraña on the Northern Plateau are Great Bustard, Little Bustard, Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Montagu’s Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Stone Curlew, Larks. Cranes and other wildfowl winter here.
To the South of the Gredos, birds typical of the dehesas such as Azure-winged magpie, Hoopoe, Great-spotted Cuckoo, Bee-eater are abundant. The Gredos Mountains have been designated as an Important Bird Area (IBA) and is part of Red Natura 2000. Its wide diversity of birds, over 120 species between residents, summer and winter visitors, is the result of the diversity of ecosystems concentrated in a fairly small area as a result of climatic and altitudinal factors, and the great dissimetry between the northern and the southern slopes. Habitats in and around the Gredos you will see during our birdwatching tours in Spain are: rocky areas, high mountain pasture and scrubland, pine and oakwoods, \"dehesas\" (on the southern slope only), river banks and groves, and villages, each with their particular community of birds.