The Basque Country nature reserve at risk from Guggenheim expansion plans
The Urdaibai Bird Center, near Bilbao, is a haven for migrating ospreys and herons, but the city’s famous museum is ruffling its feathers
The Urdaibai Bird Center has been cutely styled like an international airport terminal, with multilingual boards marked Arrivals and Departures, and a raised observation platform resembling an air traffic control tower. Through a roof-mounted telescope I watch various avian species landing or taking off from little floating archipelagos on the adjoining lagoon.
I am not a birder so I don’t know what they’re called, though I do recognise the (grey) heron by its pterodactyl flight profile.
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