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Portugal Lisboa E Vale Do Tejo

Long-eared owl Asio otus ©Malcolm Schuyl http://www.wildvisions.co.uk

Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (English: Lisbon and Tagus Valley) was one of the five Regions of Portugal (NUTS II subdivisions). Today it is replaced by Lisboa region. It had 3,447,173 inhabitants (2001), and its area was 11,930 km².

top sites

Boquilobo Marsh

A small but interesting wetland just 100 km northeast of Lisbon which is famous for its breeding herons and wintering waterfowl.

Tages Estuary

Just outside Lisbon, this large wetland is one of the most important in Europe and can easily provide 100 species of bird in a day.

useful reading

Books, CDs etc

See the Fatbirder Portugal page for fieldguies etc. to Portugal or the Iberian penninsular as a whole...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!

2008 [March] - Mark Easterbrook

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/Portugal/Portugal-27/Portugal-mar-08.htm
With friends living near Cascais (35km west of Lisbon), the invitation to visit them and do some bird watching around the Lisbon area was irresistible. So leaving some hideous British weather behind we headed off from Luton airport on 7th Mar and retuned on the 16th having missed the biggest storm of the British winter – what a result!

tour operators

Cruzeiro "Estuário do Sado"

http://www.sal.pt/m9_cruzeiros/cruzeiros_p_estuario.htm
O Estuário do Sado é uma Reserva Natural da mais elevada importância ambiental, pelas suas características ímpares de dimensão, orientação geográfica e condições naturais para reprodução e crescimento de muitas espécies vegetais e animais, de onde se destacam várias tipos de peixes, cefalópodes, moluscos e aves...

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