Destinations

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Fuerteventura 14 – 21 March 2012

Birds

Egyptian vulture, Barbary partridge, pallid swift, raven, Spanish sparrow, spectacled warbler, lesser short-toed lark and possibly laughing dove. Migrants could include bee-eater, red-rumped swallow and woodchat shrike.

Flowers

Fuerteventura has a range of desert plants including interesting succulents. Depending on the intensity of winter rains, we will also see a range of Mediterranean and North African annuals.

Some are unique to Fuerteventura or are found only in the eastern Canary Islands and adjacent African coast. These include woody spurges, limoniums and a delicate bugloss. On the Jandía peninsula we may see the very rare cactus-like Jandía spurge or the Medusa’s-head bindweed.

Winged fruit of Salsola vermiculata, a common shrub; giant milkweed Calotropis procera, introduced; Pulicaria canariensis, endemic to Fuerteventura

Insects

The number of species is quite low, but as with the birds, the quality is high. Greenish black-tip and green-striped white are the commonest butterflies, and we will hope to see tiny African grass blues and the magnificent African tiger and monarch. Dragonflies could include Saharan blue-tailed damselfly, lesser emperor and scarlet darter.