Canary Islands – Spain

Serie: Crossbill guides

Hilbers, Dirk | Paperback / softback | 15-04-2024 | 9789491648328

This nature and wildlife guidebook covers Tenerife and La Gomera, including all its Natural and National Parks. It is a thorough and practical guide for naturalists and nature lovers.

The guide offers background information, detailed routes and site descriptions plus tips on watching wildlife and finding birds and wildflowers. The book offers a mix of walking routes and car routes with stops and short walks. All the walks in this book, including some more challenging ones, are designed to explore the landscape and find birds and wildlife rather than covering ground.

This nature travel guidebook to Tenerife and La Gomera contains routes and background info on landscape, flora and fauna.

– Landscape history
– Ecosystems
– Geology
– Flora and Fauna
– Where to watch birds
– Finding orchids and other wildflowers
– 17 detailed routes with tips for finding wildlife and 35 site descriptions

Dirk Hilbers (NL, 1976), set up the Crossbill Guides Foundation and travels Europe to research the guidebooks. This is the 17th guide on which he has worked. As a biologist, when not in the field, Dirk Hilbers is a free-lance writer and and environmental ethics.

Kees Woutersen (NL, 1956) lives and works in Huesca in the north of Spain. Before retirement, he ran his own nature travel company, Aragon Natuurreizen, that specialises in bird trips, including trips to Tenerife and La Gomera. Besides this guide Kees also wrote, together with Dirk, the Crossbill Guide to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, plus several other guides on areas in Spain and Portugal.