Portugal 2026
Lisbon City / Tagus Estuary
View from Percurso Ribeirinho de Loures (Loures Riverside Route) to the Vasco da Gama bridge
Route (Heading North)
Oriente Station
Vasco da Gama Bridge
Percurso Ribeirinho de Loures
Walking from the Oriente station to the Loures Riverside Route takes about 1-hour, and in my case, in unrelenting heat with no shade apart from under the Vasco da Gama bridge. You do however get to see wetland birds without having to travel too far away from the city centre.
MUNICIPALITY OF HIGH VALUE STRATEGIC VALUE
INTEGRATED INTO THE GLOBAL BIOLOGICAL CORRIDOR, DUE TO BIODIVERSITY
Percurso Ribeirinho de Loures (Loures Riverside Route)
Sightings
Barn Swallow
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Little Egret
Flamingos
Black-Headed Gull
Mallard
Cormorant
Samouco Salt Pans
Greater Flamingo, Salinas do Samouco, Fundação para protecção e Gestão Ambiental (Samouco Salt Pans, Foundation for Environmental Protection and Management)
Unsurprisingly the heat in the Lisbon area in July / August is very full Lon and shooting in ~35c heat for 1 hour without shade and a considerable amount of ‘heat haze’ was challenging
Black-winged Stilt
Greater Flamingo
Kingfisher
Redshank
Black-winged Stilt, Salinas do Samouco, Fundação para protecção e Gestão Ambiental (Samouco Salt Pans, Foundation for Environmental Protection and Management)
Lagoa dos Salgados
View out over Lagoa dos Salgados
Abandoned viewing platform
Sightings
Black-tailed Godwits
Cormorant
Little Egret
Flamingos
Marsh Harrier
Glossy Ibis
White Stork
Stonechat
Grey Heron
Spoonbill
Eurasian Spoonbill
Algarve Region
Bee-eater
Iberian Magpie
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrows
Alpine Swift
House Martin
Black Bird
Spotless Starlings
Rock Dove
Little Owl (heard not seen)
Blackbird
Fischer's Lovebird
Honey Buzzard