GALLERY: WILDLIFE AND NATURE OF THE EBRO
Welcome to the Gallery section of Carp Dream Fishing, a long established family run company offering guided and unguided tours on the beautiful river Ebro, Caspe, Spain.
You can find a wide range of Wild Life and Nature images from around the Ebro, or you can return to the main gallery page where you can view one of the other gallery sections, including our catfish , carp and Zander galleries.
PURPLE HERON: Black on crown and upperparts less glossy 70-90 cm. Slate upperparts and wing coverts, than adults. With chestnut scapulars in breeding plumage; Adult with black crown, fresh flight feathers; chesnut underparts; neck chestnut with two glossy feathers on upper and underparts. Black lateral lines; yellowish legs and bill. Juveniles with buff upperparts. STATUS IN ARAGON: Summer visitor, very scarce breeder with records only in the Ebro Basin
HONEY BUZZARD: 51-58 cm. Brown upperparts; pale underparts, with dark mottled; dark brown upperwing and pale underwing; dark bill; yellow eye. STATUS IN ARAGON: Summer visitor breeding scarcely in mountainous areas (Pyrenees and Moncayo); very common on passage.
EGYPTIAN VULTURE: 58-70 cm. Adult white, with black feathers on wings; head and throat unfeathered, with yellow skin. Juvenile dark brown. STATUS IN ARAGON: Summer visitor, distributed throughout open landscapes if food and cliffs for breeding are present.
HEN HARRIER: 43-51 cm. Adult male with grey head and up-perparts; underparts grey on breast and white on vent; black wing-tips; grey tail; white rump. Adult female with dark brown upper-parts; underparts light brown with dark streaked; white rump; dark barred tail and wings. Juvenile similar to females, but with underparts tinged rusty-yellow. Length of 10th primary between 5th and 6th; the beginning of emargination of 9th primary hidden by primary coverts. STATUS IN ARAGON: Mainly a winter visitor, with a little pairs of breeding birds in the Ebro Valley, Gallocanta and South of Teruel; in winter a common species in plain cultivated areas of the region.
BOOTED EAGLE: 46-53 cm. With feathered legs to the toes; this eagle has two morphs: the pale morph with white underparts and dark flight feathers; the dark morph with dark brown plumage. STATUS IN ARAGON: Summer visitor. Widely distributed throughout the Region, more common in forests with mixture of open ground.
RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE: 33-38 cm. Brown reddish upperparts; grey breast, reddish on belly; black streaked neck; chestnut, black and white streaks on flanks; bill, ocular ring and legs red. STATUS IN ARAGON: Resident. Widely distributed throughout the Region, absent only from some areas of the Pyrenees.
BEE-EATER: 27-29 cm. Reddish chestnut crown and upper mantle; rump golden yellow; green tail and underparts; yellow throat; black and curved bill; reddish iris. STATUS IN ARAGON: Summer visitor. Widely distributed throughout the Region, absent from the highest zones of the Pyrenees and the most deforested areas of the Ebro Basin.
HOOPOE: 25-28 cm. Brownish upperparts, with transver- sal black and white lines; pink-vinaceous breast; white underparts; head with a pink crest with black and white tips; wings and tail black with white bands; long and curved bill. STATUS IN ARAGON: Summer visitor with some scarce wintering birds. Breeds widely distributed throughout the Region, absent only from Northern areas.
BLUETHROAT: 13-14 cm. Brown upperparts and central tail feathers; reddish tail with a terminal dark band on the tip; pale supercilium; pale belly; blue throat in breeding male and lacking blue (or with little) on non breedeing males and females. STATUS IN ARAGON: On passage, sometimes wintering in the Ebro Valley. Some records breeding in Montes Universales.
GOLDEN ORIOLE: 22-25 cm. Male with deep yellow body and wings and tail black. Female and juveniles with green olive feathers; underparts with diffuse streaks; wing and tail brownish; in adults bill and eye reddish. STATUS IN ARAGON: Summer visitor. Widely distributed throughout all forests of the Region, absent from the Pyrenees.
RED-BACKED SHRIKE: 17-18 cm. Adults with reddish/brown upper-parts; male with grey crown and black eye-stripe; pale underparts; female without black on head; ochre head. Juvenile with reddish plumage and barred. STATUS IN ARAGON: Summer visitor, breeding in open pastures with small trees; widely distributed in Pyrenees and very located in Sistema Iberico.
CHOUGH: 36-42 cm. Glossy black plumage; pointed and decurved bill; red bill and legs. STATUS IN ARAGON: Resident. Distributed throughout the Region breeding on cliffs and buildings.
