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Natural Park of Ria Formosa
FAUNA
Tours in Ria Formosa
- Walking Eco-Tours
- Birdwatching Tours
- Sightseeing Tours
- Boat Tours in Tavira
- Boat Tours in Vila Real S.A.
- Big Game Fishing
Whether you’re in the Algarve on a family or golf holiday and would like a different day out.Come and tray a tour in Ria Formosa.
The Ria Formosa has a wonderful variety of birds and many places where to find them. At almost any time of the year there is something of interest to see. Tours cover several different habitats dependent on season and tides - salinas, saltmarsh, hills, steppe grasslands and woodlands. These tours are specifically designed for beginners and those who like to learn and have fun while bird watching. |
RIA FORMOSA FAUNA
The diversity of plants and abundance of fauna is one of the features of Ria Formosa, highlighting the birds, which include many species listed as endangered.
Many migratory speciesl, from northern Europe spend the winter or use the area as a stopover on route towards south.
Among the most important can be singled out in Autumn and winter Spoonbills, hundreds of Greater Flamingos, Audouin’s Gulls and Slender-billed Gulls and as many as 20 species of wading birds, including Stone-curlews. In spring/summer, local breeding species include European Bee-eaters, Red-necked Nightjar, Little Terns, Avocets and Kentish Plovers. One of the major attractions here are the Greater Flamingos at least some of which can be found all the year round. As many as 1,000 of them may be seen in the winter months.
Noteworthy is the chicken-sultana (Porphyrio), and the population of White Stork Ciconia ciconia.
The benthic communities, with composition varying from species to other marine clearly own the lagoon system, have extremely large populations, and some of them of economic interest the clams Ruditapes decussatus, the cockle Cerastoderma edule and the Razor Clam Ensis siliqua.
In the fish fauna are identified 65 species, among these, the Golden Sparus aurata, the seabream Diplodus sargus, Seabass Dicentratus labrax, the Sole Solea senegalensis and eel Anguilla anguilla.
In the Reptiles note the Chameleon Chamaeleo chamaeleon, a species threatened with extinction and whose distribution is confined to Portugal Eastern Algarve coastline, pine forests of the coastal mainland and the barrier islands.
In the mammals note the otter Lutra lutra, the Sacarabos Herpestes ichneumon.