Description

Een prachtige reisgids over een van de mooiste natuurgebieden, flora en fauna van Spanje: de Spaanse Pyreneeën. Rijk geïllustreerd met foto's en kaarten en veel nuttige informatie voor de natuurliefhebber. Onmisbaar voor een unieke natuurvakantie in pure wildernis. Beschrijft de volgende gebieden: Ebro basin, Ebro Valley, Sierra de Guara, Ordesa & Monte Perdido, Benasque en Llauset. - De enige reisgids die flora en fauna, en vogels beschrijft - Wandelroutes, vogelkijk- en observatietips - Achtergrondinformatie over landschap en ecologie Deze natuurgids maakt deel uit van de succesvolle reisgidsenserie Crossbill Guides. Engelstalige uitgave.

This is the new edition of the successful Spanish Pyrenees and steppes of Huesca - Spain. It covers the central part of the Pyrenees, and the dry steppe plains further south, to the river Ebro - a region that roughly coincides with the province of Huesca.Within this region, most of the iconic alpine parts of the Spanish Pyrenees are found. Additionally, some of the finest, desert-like landscapes of Spain are here. This Crossbill Guide covers all aspects of this region: Wildlife and landscape: birdwatching sites, the most intact wilderness areas, the butterflies and wildflowers and geological phenomena. Like all other Crossbill Guides, this title answers two questions: what makes this area so special, and how you can see this for yourself. It includes 21 detailed routes and 26 sites with concrete indications on where and how to find the birds, wildlife and flora.

Region covered by this guide
This guide covers the central part of the Spanish Pyrenees, including the dry, desert-like Ebro basin to its south. Administratively, this is the northern part of the Autonomous region of Aragón and coincides for the larger part with the province of Huesca. This guide covers the some famous Pyrenean valleys and sierras:

Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park
Aneto and Benasque
Jaca and the Hecho Valley
Sierra de Guara and the Somontano
Los Monegros (including Belchite / El Planerón)
Laguna de Gallocanta
The Crossbill Guide is a thorough and practical guide for naturalists and nature lovers. It offers background information,  routes and site descriptions, plus tips on finding and watching all kinds of wildlife. Each route offers detailed descriptions of where to find birds, wildlife and wildflowers. The book offers a mix of walking routes and car itineraries with stops and short walks. Although some are challenging, all the walks in this book are designed to explore the landscape and find birds and wildlife rather than simply covering ground.

About the Spanish Pyrenees and steppes of Huesca
Huesca is the northern province of Aragón and covers the whole of the central Spanish Pyrenees and much of the arid, desert-like lowlands of the Ebro river. The diversity in landscapes, flora and fauna of this relatively small area is immense and ranks among the highest in Europe. The area comprises of three regions:

the high Pyrenees,
the Sierras Exteriores
the Ebro basin
About the authors
Dirk Hilbers (NL, 1976), set up the Crossbill Guides Foundation and travels Europe to research the guidebooks. This is the 11th guide on which he has worked. As a biologist, when not in the field, Dirk Hilbers is a free-lance writer and lecturer in the field of environmental ethics.
Kees Woutersen (NL, 1956) has lived in Huesca (Spain) for 20 years, working as a nature and bird guide throughout Spain. He runs his own travel company and is author of various books on birds and natural history, mostly about the birds and mammals of the Pyrenees. This is the first Crossbill Guide he wrote but he later followed on with other guides to areas in Spain and Portugal.

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