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Dry Farmlands of the Segrià

Alfés, Segrià, Lleida

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Dry Farmlands of the Segrià

Nature · Alfés, Segrià, Lleida

Image of Alfés, not of the place itself.

The secans (dry farmland) of Alfés are a pseudo-desert steppe landscape forming part of the Secans de Mas de Melons-Alfés protected natural area, between the comarques of Les Garrigues and the Segrià, declared a Special Protection Area for birds (ZEPA) in 1987 and included in the Natura 2000 network as a partial nature reserve. The landscape combines large expanses of rain-fed herbaceous crops with rosemary and broom scrubland in its eastern half. It is a habitat for steppe birds uncommon in Catalonia, among them the great bustard, the calandra lark and the stone-curlew; it holds the only breeding population of Iberian grey shrike (trenca) in the whole of Catalonia and Spain, and receives between 50 and 60 pairs of pin-tailed sandgrouse every winter.

Photo: Angela Llop (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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