Holland( val per 3 redaccions, te + de 300 paraules..)

The last month I had a good birding tour in Holland with 9 people more of Girona and Figueres. We leave to Girona Airport and go to Eindhoven. We arrived there about 9:00. The first objective was the Lesser White-fronted Goose. This bird is very difficlut to see in Europe. We search near the Oudeland van Strijen situated in the Rhin and Maas Delta. In the second day we seen a group of 14 birds. The second objective was a Bufflehead, a duck who life in North-America but this year one male has been wintering in Barendrecht-Gaatkenplas. We find the duck, was a very beautiful bird!!! The next objective was the Greater Yellowlegs, we moved to Collijnsplaat. The next was Common Waxwing, but we don't find in all the time.
We then headed to Den Helder Harbour, this city is in front to Texel and next to the big dike. In Den Helder we seen Eider and some Common Eider or Purple Sandpiper. We started the dike crossing. We stopped here and there, and we could see interesting birds such as Smew, Red-breasted Merganser or Greater Scaup. In north-Holand we decided to search Red-breasted Goose. This was the most difficlut bird because in area with we stayed, Friesland, there were thousands of Bernacle Gosse and one Red-breasted Goose. We stay three hours searching the Gosse and when the sun was disapeearing Aleix finded the Gosse. This was the most incredible moment in the travel!! The Gosse was very beautiful!! We could relax and go to Sneek, where we slept.
The next and last day, the first and the more important objectif was the White-tailed Eagles. We seen a pair in  Oostvaardersplassen National Park.
Then we needed to find some Bewick's Swan for the youngest of the group. We had a good spot on the GPS, so there we went! We found not only Bewick's Swans, but also Whooper Swans and Tundra Bean Goose.
 After we went to the airport.

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.