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Wildlife - Flora and
Fauna
If you do some of the local
walks you will be rewarded with a great variety of flowers
and bird life, as well as native and cultivated trees and even
perhaps the odd encounter with a fox (Zorro), Wild boar (
jabalí), Ibex, etc.
The Guadalest valley is returning
to it's wild state, with trees now protected and many of the
terraces from the early part of the last century now abandoned.
There are large areas of hillside that are now inaccessible and
undisturbed, thus making it an ideal haven for wildlife.
Spain has more varieties of wildlife than any other
country in Europe. It is home to some of
the rarest species on the planet such as the Spanish Imperial
Eagle and the Iberian Lynx. Wolves can still
be found in parts of Spain, their numbers are growing but they
are very unlikely to disturb your Spanish idyll.
Spain is a bird lover's dream with 70% of
Europe's bird species either visiting or breeding in Spain.
Rare birds of prey such as the black vulture and Eleonora's falcon
can be seen if you get lucky. 25 different bat species inhabit
mainland Spain and the countryside abounds with butterflies of
many colours and varieties.
We've put together some information
on what you might see in the area.
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