Menorca island

Is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. Menorca is rich in wild flowers typical of the Mediterranean with a number of endemic species and many orchids. Most are in flower early in the year in late March, April and May.
The birdlife of Menorca is very well known, it is on the migration route of many species and good number of passage migrants can be seen in spring. Residents include Audouin's Gull, Blue Rock Thrush, Thekla Lark. Booted eagle and Red Kite are easy to see as is Egyptian Vulture in the right habitat. In summer you get Bee-eaters and Menorca has major colonies of Cory's Shearwater and Balearic Shearwater.


Menorca is known for its collection of megalithic  monuments: navetes, taules and talaiots.

Deserts in Spain II( Haviam si acabu les redaccions yaaa)

 3-Tabernas Desert

It is located in the province of Almeria. The desert receives about 14 cm of rain a year. This desert its similar of Far west American and since 50 years Hollywood have done films. In this area live the only Europe population of  Trumpeter Finch, a bird who live in north Africa.

4-Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park

Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park is a natural park in southeastern Spain, near the city of Almeria. It is the largest terrestrial-maritime reserve in the European Western. The area is semi-arid .There are over 1,000 plants recorded in the reserve, some of which are endemism to the park, including the pink snapdragon.

Deserts in Spain

Yes, in Spain there ara 4 deserts. One is a naturaly deserts and the rest are artificial.

1-Monegros

This desert was met about the romans. They were cut the tress and this area was became a desert.
But this bad lands no aren't died. This place have the highest biodiversity in Europe. A lot of strange plants, rare birds, mammals, etc.

The situation in  the villages Bujaraloz, Fraga, Oriñena, etc. next to Zaragoza. Now the problems in this area are the irrigation and Gran Scala( Las Vegas 2).

2-Bardenas Reales

This place is situation in Navarra comunity. Is a area for graze sheeps. Is a Natural Park and Biosfera reserve. Before this place was military area but the people and the ecologists were protection.

Exotic species

Exotic species are a very problem in all the countries in the world. Every year the rich countries spending a lot of milon money for combat this species. The motive normaly is abandon in the nature animals who have began too big. Examples: In 2004 one man looking a crocodrile in the Besos river. Other species was arrived about the boat, examples rats, cockroaches and argentins ants. Other was  liberated for fischers, and others become wild examples: a lot of ornamentation plants.


In Catalonia is a very problem in Delta de L'Ebre because the apple snail and american crab destroyed the rice plantations.


The List of the most dangerous exotic species in the world is:

1-Aedes albopictus
2-Wasmannia auropunctata
 3-Boiga irregularis
4-Dreissena polymorpha
5-Lates niloticus
6-Eleutherodactylus coqu
7-Rattus rattus
8-Rubus ellipticus
 

Albufera National Parc

S'Albufera is a wetland area in the north of Mallorca between Alcúdia and Can Picafort. S'Albufera was given National Park status on 28th February 1988. It has 1700 hectares. You can see up to 200 species of birds, a huge variety of plants and wildflowers, insects and fish,  some unusual amphibians, reptiles and mammals. No motor vehicles are permitted to enter the park.

This place is my favourite site in the world. I go in S'Albufera since i was six years because a part of my familiy living in Mallorca. In S'Albufera i wached a very beautiful and strange birds. Examples are osprey (Pandion haliaetus), Purple Swamphe(Porphyrio porphyrio), Marbled teal(Marmaronetta angustirostris),Stone Curlew(Burhinus oedicnemus), a very class of ducks, etc.

Now, S'Albufera has a very problem because the Mallorca corrupte politicians can building a golf next to Albufera and destroyed a very important area of  Eleonora' s Falcon and one endemism plant.

My photos of Albufera.

Mallorca

Mallorca is the biggest island of Balearic islands. The capital is Palma de Mallorca. The population in Palma are 401.270 persons and Mallorca 846.000  . The climate of Mallorca is a Mediterranean climate. Mallorca has two mountainous regions. The first and the most important is Serra de Tramuntana and the secon is Serra d'Art. The highest mountain in Mallorca is the Puig Major 1.445. Others famous places in Mallorca ara : Cap de Formentor, Dragonera island, the Badia de Pollença and the larger Badia d'Alcúdia, Cap de ses Salines, etc..

The most importants citys are: Palma, Inca, Manacor, Felanix, sa Pobla, Muro and Arta.

The best Spanish places for birdwatching(Espero que aquesta redacció conti per les 3 o 4 que no havia fet ya que té 400 paraules!!)

Spain is an extensive and divers country.  Pyrenees, Cantabrian mountain-range, Sierra Nevada, extensive fields, wetlands, lakes, etc.  This diversity is very important than birds and is made become Spain on the top 10 bird watching places in the word. The best community is Andalucía. In this community exists very important places.  For example: Sierra Nevada, Doñana National Park and Gibraltar. Other important community is Catalonia. A 40% of territory is protect in Catalonia. The important places are Delta de L’Ebre, Pyrenees, Aiguamolls de L’Empordà, Aiguamolls del Llobregat and Secans de Lleida.

 Top 7 places in the Spain for Bird watching.

1-Tarifa:This place is situated front the Gibraltar narrow. In September when the birds  in the North Europe migration at Africa this point is a fantastic show because hundreds birds are concrete  during his travel. You can watch white stork, black stork, thousands of honey buzzards and sometimes some African bird: Rüppell's Griffon, Lanner Falcon and Red Buzzard.

2-Doñana National Park:  Doñana is the queen National Park in Iberia. It has 194.000 ha and is the one of the best wetlands in Europe.  In this place is the habitat of a lot of danger extinction birds(   Marbled Teal, White-headed, etc…). Doñana is the first winter area of the  Greylag goose in Europe. You can watch a lot of water and forest birds.

3-Delta de l’Ebre: This is the biggest delta in western Mediterranean. Is situated in Tarragona province and is made by River mouth of Ebro river. You can watch a lot of flamingos and gulls.

4-Cabañeros National Park: Is situate in Castilla la Manxa. This park has the  first colony of black vulture in Spain and you can watch some Imperial Iberian eagle, one eagle in danger extinction. Also it is Egyptian vulture, Great Eagle owl, Black stork, etc.

5-Monegros: Monegros is situate in Aragon. Is a desert area but there’s a lot of strange birds. You can watch the Great Bustard, Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse, Golden Eagle, The Black-shouldered kite, etc. They are the difficult and strange birds in Europe.

6-Gallocanta: Is the lake situate in Daroca area. Is the famous winter area of Crane and is very spectacular watching this birds in the morning when flying in the South.

7-Santoña Natural Park: This park is situate in Cantabria. During the migration you can watch the birds of North Europe. This wetlands it’s the best important natural Ria in the North Spain.

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Palencia 3

Day 7

The last day in Palencia arrived. The objectif in the travel was looked the aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola). This bird is incude in the red list of animals in the word and life in Poland but in September travel at Africa. We awaited of the bird falled in the row .
The last round, in the last row, i was listening '' I catch the aquatic warbler!!!!!''. This was incredible,the bird was very beautiful and i was staying very happy. All the people made photos, and catched the bird. I was the last person and before liveration i was saying bird '' good travel ''.

Acuatic warbler

Palencia 2

The second day i got up at 6:30. The alarm-clock with Arnau was very terrible. I was had a shower,down the stairs and ate the breakfast. Zuma arrived at 7:00 and we went to ''Canal de castilla''. This waterway was builded in s.XVIII and comunicate Castilla Leon( more production of cereals in Spain) and the ports in the north but the invention of the train finished the waterway . Now this waterway is a very important wetland because next to waterway are 45 wetlands.

 

When we arrived in the waterway Zuma gave boots and we enter in the wetlands and cathed the birds in the row. I cathed very diferents birds : Reed Warbler, Sedge warbler, Savi's warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Willow warbler, bluethroat, etc. I was to ring some birds.

PD: the next day i carry the birds guide and you theach me the Islandian birds!!

Bluethroat( Luscinia svecica) Male

Palencia 1

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I was went to Palencia with my friends Arnau Sargatal and Gerard Carbonell (Figueres, Catalonia). We met in Sants station (Barcelona, Catalonia) and we catched the train at 9.30 and arrived in 16:45 in Palencia( Castella Lleo) 30 minutes delay . Fernando Jubete comed to recived and leave to Fuentes de Nava, the town who live one hundred persons. When we was arrived in the Fernando's house we were went in the Nava wetlands and we watched the Black Stork, Kingfischer,Great Egret and wilds ducks. When the mosquitos killer us, we went to Fernando's house and dinner. When I went in the bed I reflect in this future week and i slepp.