The Calvià Town Hall directed by the Mayor Carlos Delgado, progresses within its Tourist Seasonal Diversification Plan and diversifies its offer with Birding Calvià
The Calvià Town Hall has given a step forward within its Tourist Seasonal Diversification Plan with the start of Birding Calvià, a new tourist product specially in demand during the low season months and which yearly moves more than 78 million people around the world.
The objective pursued by the government team, directed by Carlos Delgado is, diversify even more the tourist offer with a new modality consisted of giving information known about the municipality´s natural values, and specially about the more than 200 birds which nest or fly through the Calvià skies and the routes from where they can be seen. Therefore, a group of experts have:
Delimited a total of 16 areas and itineraries of ornithological importance:
Galatzó public estate: Ses Cases, Ses Sínies and S'Esclop path ways
Santa Ponça ravine from Calvià
Santa Ponça ravine from es Capdellà
Ses Malgrats viewpoint
El Toro
Natural itinerary Peguera-es Capdellà
Cap Andritxol
Torre de Cala Figuera
Puig de Sa Morisca
Serra de na Burguesa
Coll de sa Creu
Small humid areas
Coves and beaches
Urban areas
Classified species of interest: Sedentary species such as the Balearic Warbler (Sylvia balearica), migrant species such as the Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), wintering species such as the Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) or summer species such as the Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator ssp. badius) are regular in the municipality of Calvià.
These routes and the different species can now be consulted in Spanish on the web page www.birdingcalvia.com, but soon, all the updated information about the Calvià´s ornithological richness and variety will be available in English and German.
Furthermore, a tourist brochure has been published, collecting the different proposals which enthusiasts in this practice can count with.
Finally, it is to be highlighted that, a municipal delegation has recently attended the Ornithological International Fair, held in Extremadura, where it was presented, with good acceptance by the attending public, the new product “Birding Calvià”.