Extremadura region is one of the most important ornithology areas within Europe, and permits in a relative short time, to observe the presence of most rare and in big communities’ rapacious, steep and aquatic birds.
Here, it concentrates 60% if the European settlement of the Black Vulture as it has two of the most important worldwide reproduction nucleus: Parque Nacional de Monfrague (Monfrague National Park) and Zona de Especial Conservación de la Sierra de San Pedro (San Pedro’s Special Conservation Zone) having each one of them more than 220 reproductive pairs. There are 38 pairs of the Imperial Iberian Eagle (Aquila adalberti), 94 pairs of the Partridge Eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus), the kestrel (Falco naumanni), representing 25% of the total Spanish settlement, Elanio Azul (Elanus caeruleus) with 250 pairs are the other rapacious birds that live in this region.
Valencia de Alcantara and surroundings combine a number of ecosystems which make that birds, animals, plants and trees have the ideal conditions of natural habitat. The landscape woods and Mediterranean bushes clearly differentiated by shady and sunny areas, alder groves by stream beds and many other species in vegetation and trees offer a great flora variety where many animal species obtain food and shelter where to establish and which are of great interest for naturalists.
