In the early spring of 2024, I was presented with the opportunity to visit one of the last places in my country where I had never been, the archipelago of the Canary Islands. Nestled in the middle of the Atlantic next to the African coast, the Canaries are home to a multitude of endemic and unique species of fauna and flora, with unique landscapes very different from both the Iberian peninsula and the neighboring African coasts themselves, both of which I already know well. I was offered to...
Birding Iberia · 10. May 2021
With this post I am inagurating the ornithological section of my website, as until now all posts and reports were mostly about amphibians and reptiles. However, my passion for birds is older than that for herps, and although in recent years I've been more focused on the latter ones, I am resuming my birding journeys more and more, thanks in part to having some fellow birders and friends here in León. So, last Saturday was the Global Big Day. This is an event created by the Cornell Lab of...