Crossbill Nature Guides: Extremadura 5th edition

This guidebook covers autonomous region of Extremadura in the southwestern part of Spain. Extremadura consists of two provinces – Cáceres in the north and Badajóz in the south. Both feature in this guide. All main nature reserves, such as Monfragüe, Llanos de Cáceres, Sierra de las Villuercas, Jerte, Mérida. Cornalvo, Sierra de San Pedro and La Serena are covered in the book.

The Crossbill Guide is a thorough and practical guide for naturalists and nature lovers. It offers background information and detailed routes and site descriptions, plus tips on finding and watching all kinds of wildlife. The book offers a mix of (mostly easy) walking routes and car itineraries with stops and short walks.

This 5th edition is fully refreshed with a completely new design, updated maps and a GPX download link for all routes.
The book features 24 detailed routes and 22 site descriptions, along with extensive background information on wildlife, birds, flora, landscape, land use and geology, helping you explore one of Europe’s richest natural regions.
Content-wise, this new edition includes several small updates compared to the previous edition.

About Extremadura

Extremadura is dominated by dehesas, a unique landscape of extensive open oak woodland and pasture. Dehesas seem more in keeping with an African savannah than part of Europe. Dehesas cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of the rolling Extremaduran hills, their expanses occasionally broken by sudden, rocky mountainous outcrops or steep river gorges. Other areas are devoid of trees and covered instead by a type of steppe of herbs, grasses and tough Retama brooms. Extremadura’s landscape is wild and open, but also has a very attractive face, with flower-lined streams and a profusion of wildflowers in the dehesas.
Look for more information and images on Crossbill Wildlife Site Page on Extremadura.