Spanish Pyrenees (Crossbill Nature Guides Series): wildlife | routes | ecology | birds (Crossbill guides) - Softcover

Dirk Hilbers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 949164839X ISBN 13: 9789491648397

Publisher: Crossbill Guides Foundation, 2025

Synopsis

Huesca (Spain) is the northern, and most diverse, of Aragon’s three provinces. It covers both the wild High Pyrenees, their wooded foothills and the steppes in the basin of the Ebro. There are few areas in Europe with such a diversity of landscapes, flora and fauna. From the Alpine heights of Ordesa to dry semi-desert of Belchite, this guidebooks shows you the best sites and reveals their flora and fauna.

About this title

About the Author

Dirk Hilbers (The Netherlands, 1976), biologist, is the founder of the Crossbill Guides Foundation and travels the continent to write Crossbill Guides about the most beautiful natural areas of Europe. He is an avid naturalist and has specialized in birds, flora, insects, ecology and land use.
Kees Woutersen (1956, Holland) has lived for 25 years in Huesca, working as a nature and bird guide throughout Spain. Kees Woutersen is author of various books on the birds and natural history of the Pyrenees and Aragón, e.g. the Atlases of the Birds of Huesca and Ordesa, and the history and extinction of the Pyrenean Ibex.

From the Back Cover

This nature travel guidebook to the central Spanish Pyrenees and adjacent lowlands 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


• 21 detailed routes with tips for finding wildlife and 25 extra sites descriptions

Dirk Hilbers set up the Crossbill Guides Foundation and travels Europe to research the guidebooks. This is the 11th guide on which he has worked. As a biologist, when not in the field, Dirk Hilbers is a free-lance writer and lecturer in the field of environmental ethics.
Kees Woutersen has lived in Huesca (Spain) for 20 years, working as a nature and bird guide throughout Spain. He runs his own travel company and is author of various books on birds and natural history, mostly about the birds and mammals of the Pyrenees. This is the first Crossbill Guide he wrote but he later followed on with other guides to areas in Spain and Portugal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crossbill Guides Foundation
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 949164839X
• ISBN 13: 9789491648397
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 264