Crossbill Guides: Eastern Rhodopes; Nestos, Evros and Dadia – Bulgaria and Greece

This title in the Crossbill Guides Series is the first nature travel guidebook to cover the spectacular region of the Eastern Rhodopes on the border of Bulgaria and Greece and contains routes and background info on landscape, flora and fauna.

• Landscape history
• Ecosystems
• Geology
• Flora and Fauna
• Where to watch birds
• Finding orchids and other wildflowers
• 18 detailed routes with tips for finding wildlife and 21 site descriptions

Like any other Crossbill Guide, TheCrossbill Guides toEastern Rhodopes answers two questions; what makes this area so special; and how can I see this for myself. This book describes the flora and fauna, landscape and traditional land use of this region, plus 18 detailed routes and many sites descriptions with concrete indications on where and how to find the birds, wildlife and flora.

The Eastern Rhodopes and adjacent areas is only recently discovered by nature travellers, which now come from all over Europe to enjoy this authentic and wild mountain range and rich flora and fauna. In the border area of southeast Bulgaria and northeast Greece lie the remote mountains of the Eastern Rhodopes. This beautifully wild and unspoiled region is home to an extraordinary array of rare species and exciting habitats. Together with the adjacent Dadia National Park, the Evros Delta and the Nestos Delta in Greece, this guide covers a whole range habitats from salt and freshwater marshes to steep rock cliffs and from Mediterranean scrubland to cool beech forests.