Rate birdingplace Rambla de Morales
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Permanently wet river bed close to the sea northwest of the town of Cabo de Gata. A great place for birding.
Rambla de Morales is a permanently wet river bed about a kilometre long. The area is located on the coastline just northwest of the town of Cabo de Gata. It is a fine place to see a lot of ducks and shorebirds away from the concrete roads. Among the birds you can encounter are White-headed Duck, Greater Flamingo, Black-necked Grebe, Purple Swamphen, Black-winged Stilt, Avocet, Common Ringed Plover, Sanderling, Little Stint, Great Cormorant, Grey Heron, Iberian Grey Shrike, Thekla's Lark and Crested Lark.
There is a sandy road of 2 km running from the far edge of Cabo de Gata town to Playa del Charco where you can park. Click on the p in the map for directions. From the parking you can explore the area by mountain bike or just walk around the water. You can also walk a beachside track from Cabo de Gata.
A very nice place with a lot of birds. Especially White-headed Duck. We saw more then twenty of them. More birds were Northern Shoveler, Kentish Plover, Wood Sandpiper, Dunlin, Slavonian Grebe and Sanderling.