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Cáceres Bird Watching

Cáceres Bird Watching

The municipality of Cáceres is home to three Special Protection Areas for Birds: Llanos de Cáceres and Sierra de Fuentes SPA, Sierra de San Pedro and Lesser Kestrel Colony in the Monumental City of Cáceres, making the city a preferred destination for ornithological tourism or Birdwatching.
The historic city itself is the habitat of numerous species. Walking along its quiet streets, on the towers of its walls and palaces or among the vegetation of its parks and gardens, we will discover a large and varied community of birds, easy to observe and of great beauty, anything from slender white storks to little acrobatic kestrels.
Surrounded by protected areas, forests, meadows and traditional farming areas, it is one of the few cities of its size that still attracts numerous species of "countryside" to its parks and outskirts, among which many birds of prey and some very interesting steppe species stand out.
Below you can consult all the tourist resources Cáceres offers for bird watching.

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Places for bird watching

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RIBERA DEL MARCO
The views deserve a visit
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SAN JORGE SQUARE
Dedicated to the patron saint of Cáceres, San Jorge, it is located in the heart...
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SIERRA DE LA MOSCA
The Sierra de la Mosca, or "La Montaña", is situated in the southeast...
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TORRE DE LOS POZOS
Also called Baluarte De Los Pozos Tourist Centre
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OLIVAR DE LA JUDERÍA
This park is ideal to rest between olive trees.
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PARQUE DEL PRÍNCIPE
A very extensive park and one of the parks with the most mature and leafy trees ...
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OLIVAR CHICO DE LOS FRAILES
Outdoor space where you can practice gymnastics, play games for children and enj...
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SAN MARQUINO VIEWPOINT
From this viewpoint, you can see the eastern wall of the Historic Centre of Các...
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FUENTE FRÍA VIEWPOINT
From this viewpoint, you can enjoy a beautiful view of the Historic Centre and t...

Bird species in Cáceres

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SPOTLESS STARLING
A uniformly black, yellow-billed bird somewhat larger than a sparrow. It freq...
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NUTHATCH
A greyish-blue, short-tailed, insect-eating woodland bird. Restless and f...
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CORN BUNTING
Slightly bigger and bulkier than a sparrow, with a stout beak, it often perches ...
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LINNET
The Linnet is a boisterous, gregarious bird,  often flocking with sparrows ...
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GOLDFINCH
This is a strikingly coloured, red-headed bird with yellow flashes in the wings....
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GREENFINCH
Sparrow-sized but more robust looking, the Greenfinch is uniformly greenish in c...
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EUROPEAN SERIN
Smaller than a sparrow, this bird has greenish-yellow, brown-speckled plumage. I...
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SPANISH SPARROW
Despite its name, this bird’s main range is in Africa. In Europe it bre...
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HOUSE SPARROW
The House Sparrow is a common town bird throughout the whole of Spain. It has li...
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EURASIAN JACKDAW
This is the commonest crow species in Cáceres, where huge flocks fly over the c...
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MAGPIE
This pigeon-sized member of the crow family has characteristically pied plumage,...
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AZURE-WINGED MAGPIE ...
This beautiful pigeon-sized bird is easily identified by its long blue tail, ...
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GREAT TIT
The Great Tit is a sparrow-sized bird with greenish-blue upperparts and yel...
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BLUE TIT
Smaller than a sparrow, bright yellow below and blue on wings and crown, the&nbs...
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SARDINIAN WARBLER
This bird sports a black head and bright red eye-ring. It lives in dense scrub a...
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SUBALPINE WARBLER
This colourful scrub warbler has a characteristic white moustache. It lives in d...
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Blackbird
This medium-sized, long-tailed, black plumaged bird has a bright orange beak in ...
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Black-eared wheatear
This bird lives in scrubland and dry pastureland. It arrives from Africa in M...
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Common stonechat
The male of this species is a small brightly coloured bird with black and red pl...
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Black redstart
This small dark bird has a characteristic red tail, which it flashes in flight a...
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Nightingale
The Nightingale is a small dun coloured bird haunting riverside woodland and cop...
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Robin
This small woodland bird has a striking red breast and face. It is common in the...
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White wagtail
This white, grey and black wagtail has revealing names both in English and Spani...
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Grey wagtail
This handsome grey and yellow wagtail, with the typical long tail, breeds along ...
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House martin
The House Martin is similar to its near relative, the Swallow, but it is smaller...
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Barn swallow
This bird has lived alongside man since time immemorial. Like other species of i...
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Crested lark
This lark is another denizen of unirrigated farmland. It is sandy coloured like ...
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Calandra lark
This lark’s favourite habitat is dry-farming and fallow land. It is bigger...
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Great spotted woodpecker
This is the region’s commonest woodpecker. Despite its Spanish name of &ld...
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European roller
The Roller is a medium-sized bird with vivid pastel blue plumage on head and ...
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European bee-eater
 This exotic, multicoloured bird is common around Cáceres, where several c...
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Kingfisher
A small bird with electric blue plumage and a pointed beak, the Kingfisher al...
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Pallid swift
This paler cousin is less abundant than the Common Swift, although Cáceres boas...
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Common swift
The Swift is a bird that has evolved for continuous flight with long sickle-shap...
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Little owl
Another nocturnal raptor that is very common in undisturbed rural areas with&nbs...
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Scops owl
This small nocturnal woodland raptor breeds in the dehesas and Mediterranean woo...
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Barn owl
This nocturnal raptor often breeds in man-made constructions such as barns, chur...
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Cuckoo
This woodland bird with its unmistakable song is in general fairly common in ...
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GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO
Slightly larger than a pigeon, this exotic looking bird lays its eggs in other b...
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COLLARED DOVE
This small, delicate dove is easily identified by its black neck ring. It tak...
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ROCK DOVE
The Rock Dove is the parent species of feral pigeons and the hybrid groups often...
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Lesser Blacked gull
Guadiloba Reservoir hosts winter roosts of almost five thousand Lesser Black-Bac...
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BLACK-HEADED GULL
Guadiloba Reservoir, lying only 7 kilometres to the east of the city, has one of...
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Great bustard
Cáceres can also lay claim to be the city of bustards, with several stable colo...
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Crane
This is one of the most important wintering species in our area. Every year, fro...
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Buzzard
This woodland raptor abounds in dehesa areas. Its most distinctive flight featur...
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Short-toed eagle
This eagle is easily recognised in flight by its totally pale underparts except ...
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Griffon vulture
This is the commonest vulture, slightly smaller and paler than the Monk Vulture....
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Cinereous vulture
This huge dark-plumaged bird has a slightly wedge-shaped tail and the biggest wi...
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Booted eagle
This small, dashing raptor is a fearless hunter. Like kites it will boldly stray...
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Black kite
As its Latin name suggest, this is the migratory species of kite. It comes to Sp...
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Red kite
Look for this bird around the city of Cáceres, especially in winter when number...
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White stork
The sight of this graceful bird soaring over the city of Cáceres or perched ato...
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Cattle egret
This small African egret colonised Spain a few decades ago. A large winter roost...
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Hoopoe
The Hoopoe is a strikingly patterned bird that raises its conspicuous crest a...
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CERNÍCALO PRIMILLA
Otra joya ornitológica de Cáceres es este pequeño halcón protegido internaci...

Bird Watching Routes

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RUTA BIRDWATCHING CASCO HISTÓRICO
The city of Cáceres, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, hides a secret o...
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GUADILOBA RESERVOIR ROUTE
Route especially indicated for lovers of ornithology since species such as the b...
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BIRD'S EYE VIEW ROUTE
"A bird's eye view" allows us to take a tour centred on the monume...
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