Ria de Alvor is one of the best places for bird watching in west side of the Algarve.
It is also the perfect place for an early morning or late afternoon walk, alone, with family or a group of friends. The landscape and silence are excellent for recharging with good energy.
The diversity of habitats in a relatively small area, of about 1700 hectares, provides the observation of a great diversity of birds typical of estuaries and marshes, seabirds and birds associated with agricultural fields.
The site has a wooden walkway that offers easy access to much of the area.
Birds you can see:
Water birds:
white-faced cormorant, lesser egret, heron, flamingo, oystercatcher, stilt, great-collared plover, interrupted-collared plover, gray plover, sandpiper beaches, Common Sandpiper, Right-billed Sandpiper, Galician Sandpiper, Sea Turtle, Silver Gull, Great Tern, Dwarf Tern, Common Tern
Large land birds:
egret, caravão, owl, bee-eater, hoopoe, lesser spotted woodpecker
Passerines:
skylark, yellow wagtail, white wagtail, robin, bluethroat, black redhorn, grayear, lesser reed nightingale, polyglot warbler, warbler, black-capped warbler, common warbler, gray flycatcher, black flycatcher, barreter shrike, blue magpie, buck
Rare birds:
Black-faced Goose, Rusty Duck, Eider, Tapered Duck, American Plover, Sociable Lapwing, Half-palmed Duckling, White-rumped Duckling, Vest Duckling, Red-legged Duckling fine green, solitary sandpiper, awl sandpiper, longtail miller, fine-billed gull, striped-billed gull, red tern, little swift, richard's pipit, white-eared tern White-cap, Agricultural Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Blistered Warbler, Rustic Warbler.
white-faced cormorant, lesser egret, heron, flamingo, oystercatcher, stilt, great-collared plover, interrupted-collared plover, gray plover, sandpiper beaches, Common Sandpiper, Right-billed Sandpiper, Galician Sandpiper, Sea Turtle, Silver Gull, Great Tern, Dwarf Tern, Common Tern
Large land birds:
egret, caravão, owl, bee-eater, hoopoe, lesser spotted woodpecker
Passerines:
skylark, yellow wagtail, white wagtail, robin, bluethroat, black redhorn, grayear, lesser reed nightingale, polyglot warbler, warbler, black-capped warbler, common warbler, gray flycatcher, black flycatcher, barreter shrike, blue magpie, buck
Rare birds:
Black-faced Goose, Rusty Duck, Eider, Tapered Duck, American Plover, Sociable Lapwing, Half-palmed Duckling, White-rumped Duckling, Vest Duckling, Red-legged Duckling fine green, solitary sandpiper, awl sandpiper, longtail miller, fine-billed gull, striped-billed gull, red tern, little swift, richard's pipit, white-eared tern White-cap, Agricultural Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Blistered Warbler, Rustic Warbler.
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