Trujillo - find out the best place to view the Lesser Kestrels and to watch storks, Pallid Swifts, Crag Martins etc

Belen - a popular place for viewing bustards and sandgrouse

Trujillo plains - includes specific sites for looking for Pin-tailed and Black-bellied Sandgrouse, great and Little Bustard, Bonelli’s Eagle, Montagu’s Harrier and Bee-eaters

Caceres plains - where to look for bustards, sandgrouse, Roller, Alpine Swift, Black-shouldered Kite, Purple Swamphen, Rock Bunting and Rock Sparrow

Monfrague - includes great spots for seeing Spanish Imperial Eagle, Bonelli’s Eagle, Azure-winged Magpie, Eagle Owl, Black Stork and all 3 vultures

Las Villuercas - fantastic for eagles, with sites for Black Wheatear too

Saucedilla (Arrocampo) - a terrific wetland for Little Bittern, Purple Swamphen, Savi’s Warbler and several herons plus Black-shouldered Kite in winter and Great Spotted Cuckoo in summer

Valdesalor - a great place for getting close to bustards

Sierra de San Pedro - higher densities of Spanish Imperial Eagle and Black Vulture than Monfrague with sites for Bonelli’s Eagle, Black Wheatear, Lesser Kestrel and Eagle Owl

La Serena - greater numbers of bustards and sandgrouse than any other site in Europe. Black Wheatear and Cranes too.

Vegas Altas (including Madrigalejo and Moheda Alta) - in winter, thousands of cranes, dozens of harriers, vast flocks of wildfowl, easy Great Bustards, Stone Curlews and Black-shouldered Kites plus passage wader flocks and the easiest place in Europe to see Red Avadavat

Campo Lugar and Sierra Brava - thousands of wildfowl on the reservoir in winter, pratincoles and Gull-billed Terns in summer and bustards and sandgrouse on the plains all year

Around Plasencia - sites for 4 species of woodpecker, Hawfinch, Bonelli’s Warbler and Rufous Bush Chat

Sierra de Gredos - just outside Extremadura but worth an excursion to look for Citril Finch, Rock Thrush, Alpine Accentor, Water Pipit and no-spotted Bluethroat

Sierra de Bejar - similar birds to the Sierra de Gredos but with less walking

The following sites are all included in my book Finding Birds in Extremadura and many are also covered in my DVD of the same title.

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Click on any of the sites below to find photos and further hints. If you have further information to add to these pages, please email me at dave@easybirder.co.uk