{"id":252,"date":"2009-01-09T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T08:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/cranes-in-spain-flock-over-mountain-and-plain\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T08:59:14","slug":"cranes-in-spain-flock-over-mountain-and-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/cranes-in-spain-flock-over-mountain-and-plain\/","title":{"rendered":"Cranes in Spain flock over mountain and plain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Did you know?<\/em><strong> &#8211; Cranes in northeast Spain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gallocranesmarten.jpg\" alt=\"Cranes at Gallocanta\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cranes at Gallocanta lagoon. <\/em>Photo by <strong>Marten van Dijl<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/charlatanmessiah.com\" title=\"Photography by Marten van Dijl\">Visit his website here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>spring passage of Cranes in northeast Spain<\/strong> takes place from the latter half of February to the end of March, or more rarely into early April.<\/p>\n<p>In autumn the largest <strong>influx of Cranes<\/strong> is from the end of October and in November, with the last birds passing through in early December.<\/p>\n<p>In Catalunya flocks of more than 100 birds are uncommon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallocanta in Arag\u00f3n<\/strong>\u00a0channels the passage of virtually the whole of the <strong>Western European population of the Common Crane<\/strong>, with up to 60,000 birds recorded together in late October and a pre-nuptial maximum of some 30,000 birds in mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>Birds heading northwards in the spring often stop off at <strong>Sotonera <\/strong>before <strong>crossing the Pyrenees<\/strong>. Gatherings of <strong>more than 14,000 Cranes<\/strong> have been recorded here, principally between mid-February and mid-March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gurelur Bird migration centre<\/strong>, at the Alto de Iba\u00f1eta (1,057m), is situated at one of the most popular mountain passes in the <strong>Pyrenees<\/strong> for watching the autumn passage of Cranes. The centre is open from July 1st to the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>Reference and further information: <strong>Where the birds are in northeast Spain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to stay<\/strong> and watch the Cranes:<br \/>\nGallocanta &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/allucant.com\/\" title=\"Allucant at Gallocanta\">Allucant<br \/>\n<\/a>Sotonera &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hospederiadeloarre.com\/en\/index.html\" title=\"Hospeder\u00eda de Loarre near Sotonera\">Hospeder\u00eda de Loarre<\/a><br \/>\nAlto de Iba\u00f1eta &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navarraseleccion.com\/web\/\" title=\"Rural accommodation in Navarra\">Navarra Selecci\u00f3n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know? &#8211; Cranes in northeast Spain Cranes at Gallocanta lagoon. Photo by Marten van Dijl.\u00a0Visit his website here.\u00a0 The spring passage of Cranes in northeast Spain takes place from the latter half of February to the end of March, or more rarely into early April. In autumn the largest influx of Cranes is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-44","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}