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Iberian Lynx Territories - Exploring Watchpoints and Hydes

Name: Iberian Lynx Territories - Exploring Watchpoints and Hydes
Brand: Wild Expedition
SKU: 85545
Availability: InStock

Exploring Watchpoints and Hydes

This is a 5 days tour to the Sierra de Andujar Natural Park, in the North of Andalusia. A beautiful nature reserve, that offers some of the best preserved wilderness in the whole Iberian Peninsula, being home to a exceptional range of fauna in this region.
Our main target will be the Iberian Lynx, so this is a specialist tour and we will be using local knowledge, not only that of our company guides, but also that of local people who really do have their ear to the ground regarding the whereabouts of this elusive feline.
As a local company with local contacts and networks, we would like to offer you the opportunity to take up optimum vantage points in some of the finest areas of Mediterranean woodland in the Iberian Peninsula, a truly unique natural reserve that also holds a large population of raptor species with good numbers of Spanish Imperial eagle, Golden eagle, Black vulture and Griffon Vulture.

5 Days / 4 Nights Walking Grade:

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Tour Highlights

Access private estates in Sierra de Andújar for better chances of lynx sightings
Specialized hides for photographing lynxes and other Mediterranean fauna
Best seen during mating season from late December to mid-January
Guided 4x4 tours provide access to remote lynx habitats
Spot lynxes, golden eagles, and more in the Mediterranean ecosystem
Gain tips on camera settings and equipment for capturing wildlife in natural environments

Tour Type

Scheduled

Thematics

Photography
Wildlife

Itinerary

DAY 1

Arrival at Malaga Airport

You’ll be met at Malaga airport.
Transfer to your hotel in Sierras de Andujar Natural Park. Once you have settled in, we might make our first visit to one of the several viewing areas in the hope of finding an Iberian Ly...

DAY 2

Sierra de Andujar Natural Park - Search for the Iberian Lynx

After an early breakfast, we’ll drive into the natural park. On the way to our watchpoints, we’ll cross a private estate where we can see fighting bulls next to the road. A little further ahead we’ll stop to look for our...

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DAY 3

Iberian Lynx watchpoints and hides

Two more days we’ll spend all our time – especially early morning and late afternoon – looking for this elusive feline and enjoying the wildlife from the best watchpoints. We will combine our safaris with the use of our ...

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DAY 4

Iberian Lynx watchpoints and hides

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DAY 5

Final day and final attempts

Last chance to see “the cat”.
After breakfast, and if schedule flight allows it, we’ll drive back to one of the watchpoints, with our focus always on getting the Iberian Lynx. Our fifth day will provide us the last chanc...

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[Iberian Lynx Land] [Iberian Magpie] @JoseLuisSanchez

[Iberian Lynx Land] [Black Vulture] @JoseLuisSanchez

[Lammergeier] [Blue Sky Wildlife] @JoseLuisSanchez

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Terms & Conditions

The terms of sale may differ based on the nature of your trip and how close your departure date is. Please review our conditions here for more information.

Recommendations

The Sierras de Andújar NP forms part of the Sierra Morena mountain chain. This beautiful natural space in the northwest of the province, lies between the Rivers Yeguas and Jandula. The gently rolling Natural Park is densely wooded and boasts one of Andalucia’s best preserved expanses of Mediterranean forest and scrubland. The dominant vegetation is Mediterranean, with Cork and holm oak woodland, and the geology is granite, quartz and slate.

It hosts a large numbers of hoofed mammals like Red and Fallow deer along with Wild boar, Spanish ibex and Mouflon. Small carnivorous like Otters, Genet and Wildcat, and It is home to many endangered species: birds such as the magnificent Spanish Imperial Eagle and Black Vulture, the shy Black stork, as well as the most endangered cat in the world: the Iberian lynx. This Natural Park currently holds the best and most important population in terms of conservation of the specie, with about 250 lynx, which is around 70% of the world population. The very low density of rabbits is a big problem for the conservation of this feline.

A share of Iberian Lynx Land profits goes to the conservation of the Iberian Lynx. We work and collaborate with the landowners of the estates where this critically endangered feline lives, improving the habitat, or increasing the populations of its main prey – rabbit, building rabbit warrens and releasing rabbits in areas with a low density of them.

Duration
5 Days / 4 Nights

Group
Minimum: 3 people
Maximum: 8 people

Spotted Species

Here is a non-exhaustive list of Animal Species you can spot during this tour

Iberian Lynx

The Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) is a critically endangered feline native to the Iberian Peninsula...

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Your Tour Guide

José Luis Sanchez

Nationality: spain

Languages: English, Spanish

Guiding since: 2006

Specialties: Birdwatching, Wildlife, Lynx tracking

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