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Description
Hotel Riu Touareg is located on the southeastern tip of the Cape Verde island of Boa Vista. The Riu Touareg area consists of three interesting birding points.
1 To the west of the hotel is the Lacacão sewage pond. You can park near the small "factory". It is sometimes supervised, but people were very friendly when you announce that you are a tourist and are birding, use your basic Portugues if possible ;-). The sewage pond holds waders, herons and waterbirds, sometimes raptors and around the pond desert birds such as Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark, Greater Hoopoe-Lark, Bar-tailed Lark and Cream-coloured Courser. The pond seems freshwater but it is not really fresh rather sewage, many insects; probably during evening and in the rainy season insect repellent is necessary. At this place both Sparrow types can be seen Cape Verde Sparrow P. iagoensis, and often in large number, P. hispaniolensis. The Spanish Sparrows may move towards the hotel for sleeping while iagoensis seems to be more outside. In August, mornings seemed to better for birding than evenings.
2 The Zone Humide de Lacacão is a wetland to the east of the hotel. In contrast this has more saline water (especially when flooded by large see waves). Birds you can expect here are Black-winged Stilt, Kentish Plover, Spectacled Warbler, Curlew Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Sanderling, Whimbrel and at the beach often Brown Booby.
3 Ilhéu de Curral Velho is a small island off the coast. It is the breeding place of many Brown Booby and Cape Verde Shearwater (both seen), probably Red-billed Tropicbird and White-faced Storm Petrel (reported by others).
Details
Access
Different parking places: at sewage pond, at Riu Touareg, and longer walk to the cliff. Click on a P in the map for directions or coordinates.
Terrain and Habitat
Desert , Steppe , Sea , Wetland , Mud flats , BeachConditions
FlatCircular trail
NoIs a telescope useful?
Can be usefulGood birding season
All year roundBest time to visit
Spring migrationRoute
Paved road , Unpaved roadDifficulty walking trail
Average walkAccessible by
Foot , CarBirdwatching hide / platform
NoExtra info
Photo hotel Riu Touareg and surroundings by Simon Waldherr, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Links
- Trip report Cape Verde
- Trip report on Cloudbirders
- Ebird hotspot Sewage ponds
- Ebird hotspot Zone Humide de Lacacão
- Ebird hotspot Ilhéu de Curral Velho