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The smallest National Park in Spain and one of the most endangered wetlands in the World, host amazing populations of fauna. Located just 25 minutes from Almagro, this park is a small part of the Guadiana river, a floodplain where freshwater & saltwater blends and set up an ecosystem unique inland Western Europe.

  Boardwalks in Tablas de Daimiel

Over 270 bird species has been identified into the park. Egrets, Ducks & Warblers are well-represented: Little Bittern, Black-Crowned Night Heron, Purple Heron, Squacco Heron, Great Egret, Common & Red-Crested Pochard, Gadwall, White-Headed Duck, Great-Reed Warbler, Savi’s & Moustached Warblers are common sights into the park, but this is also a great area for finding shorebirds such as Collared Pratincole or Pied Avocet, or even steppe birds such as Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse or the nocturnal Stone Curlew.

 

White Storks occurs in good numbers, and Black Storks are seen on migration. Other treats include Bearded Reedlings & Reed Buntings, while Bluethroats, Penduline Tits, Spotted & Pied Flycatchers, Willow & Bonelli’s Warblers, or even the scarce Wryneck can be seen when they turn up from or to Africa.

 

Marsh Harrier is the only raptor that breeds into the park, but in the surroundings you can find amazing populations of nesting Lesser Kestrels. Dead trees or utility poles are used by Ospreys as vantage points, a bird that can be a common sight on May & September. The Dehesa de Zacatena, open woodland space covered with ancient Holm Oaks, is used as a game ground by Golden Eagle, and, sometimes, by the rare in the area Spanish Imperial Eagle.

 

Around Las Tablas the traveler can pass across one of the most representative steppe areas of La Mancha region, with very good chances for Great & Little Bustard, Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse and Little Owl. Long-Eared Owl and Eagle-Owl can be found in the Tamarisk trees of the area or in the Holm Oak forests around the Guadiana river.

 

Deserves special mention the Navaseca Lagoon, a place that can be reached is just ten minutes from Las Tablas where birders may be surprised by one of the best ranges of waterbirds of Europe.

 

Very common mammals in the park are Wild Boar, Red Fox and the playful Otter, whose traces are visible in any of the routes inside the park. Other small mammals like Iberian Hare, Weasel, Polecat, Southern Water Vole and Egyptian Mongoose are occasionally sighted at dusk.

 

Year 2011 was excellent in all senses, and three uniques bird species in Europe, White-Headed Duck, Marbled Teal & Red-Knobed Coot breed into the park.

 

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