The unknown Vulture spectacle! – Ronda and the Straits – Deposit

Our mountain stay should give us views of specialists such as Ring Ouzel, Fieldfare, Redwing Rock Bunting, Red-billed Chough, Alpine Accentor, Blue Rock Thrush, Black Wheatear, Rock Petronia, Bonelli´s and Golden Eagle as well as woodland birds like Crested Tit, Hawfinch Short-toed Treecreeper, and Firecrest.  A massive vulture migration event is in progress at this time of year, and among the thousands of amassing Griffon Vultures we ought to be able to see many other raptors such as Egyptian Vultures, Spanish Imperial Eagles, Short-toed and Booted Eagles, and huge flocks of White Storks.  Visits to local farmlands and wetlands should yield a host of waders including Kentish Plover, Sanderling and Little Stint, as well as Purple Swamphens, Eurasian Spoonbills, Greater Flamingoes and the Critically Endangered Northern Bald Ibis.