Birding tour in the Albufera de Valencia

The Albufera de Valencia is a freshwater lagoon surrounded by rice field on the Gulf of Valencia coast in the Valencia Community, eastern Spain. In this Birding Albufera de Valencia tour, we will visit the main birding spots of this important Natural Park which covers a baste area of 21,120 ha. We will look round the different habitats such as the sandbars, the marshes, the rice fields and the lagoon. In the Albufera, is possible to watch during the migration up to 100 bird species in one single day. In addition, the area is well-known for attracting large number of uncommon species, especially during the migration nevertheless, during the whole year long, a great bio-diversity of fauna and flora can be observed in the Albufera. Some of the species that could be seen in this tour are: Purple Swamphen, Moustached and Savi’s Warbler, Bluethroat, Red-crested Pochard, Sandwich Tern, Little Tern, Common Tern and Gull-billed Tern, Slender-billed, Mediterranean and Audouin’s Gull, Balearic Shearwater, Kingfisher, Red-Crested Pochard, Collared Pratincole, Booted Eagle, Marsh Harrier and great number of wintering waders and wildfowl, including the rare White-headed Duck. We are fortunate enough of having in the region the only breeding pair of Elegant Tern in the all Palearctic. Please, do not hesitate to contact us and will designed the perfect tailor-made tour.This tour involves no walk difficulties. In addition, our company has access to restricted areas which are not open to the public.