The Ebro Delta: Audouin's Gulls, Rice Fields and the River Mouth
Catalonia, Spain
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The Ebro Delta: Audouin's Gulls, Rice Fields and the River Mouth
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The Ebro delta is 320 square kilometres of flat land the river has built out into the Mediterranean, and it is one of the largest wetlands in the western Mediterranean — rice fields, lagoons, salt pans and dune spits, with 95 breeding bird species and the largest colony of Audouin's gull in the world. It is also shrinking: dams upstream hold back the sediment that used to replace what the sea takes, so the delta is now losing ground and sinking, which makes it one of the most exposed places in Spain to sea level rise.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Watch waterbirds in the Ebro Delta Natural Park, established in 1983, home to the world's largest colony of Audouin's gulls and 95 breeding bird species
2
of 4
Visit the MónNatura Delta de l'Ebre centre in Deltebre
3
of 4
Take a boat trip on the Ebro from Deltebre down to the river mouth
4
of 4
Cycle the tracks through the rice fields, flooded in spring and again in winter when they fill with birds
Watch waterbirds in the Ebro Delta Natural Park, established in 1983, home to the world's largest colony of Audouin's gulls and 95 breeding bird species
Visit the MónNatura Delta de l'Ebre centre in Deltebre
Take a boat trip on the Ebro from Deltebre down to the river mouth
Cycle the tracks through the rice fields, flooded in spring and again in winter when they fill with birds
Before you go
Mosquitoes are severe from late spring to autumn. Much of the delta is private rice farmland — stay on the public tracks.
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Challenge XP
275 XP
Spain country bonus
+100 XP
Potential total
375 XP
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