White Stork Migration (Straits of Gibraltar) — Strait of Gibraltar

About this spectacle

Each year, tens of thousands of White Storks funnel through the Strait of Gibraltar on one of Europe's most dramatic raptor and large-bird migration corridors. Visitors standing on the hills above Tarifa watch vast kettles of storks circling on thermal updrafts, gaining height before gliding across the narrow channel toward Africa in late summer, or returning northward in spring. The sky can fill with hundreds of birds at once, their black-and-white plumage vivid against the blue Mediterranean sky, wings spread wide and legs trailing. The sound of wingbeats and occasional bill-clattering drifts overhead. The crossing point is narrow enough that you can watch birds spiral up on the European side and track them until they disappear into the African haze — an intimate front-row seat to one of nature's great annual journeys.

When to go

Jan — Dec, peak Aug — Mar

Getting there

Nearest airport: XRY. Nearest city: Algeciras.

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