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Perhaps one of the Canaries' best-known endemics - the Blue Chaffinch © tour participant John Cranmer

Perhaps one of the Canaries' best-known endemics - the Blue Chaffinch © tour participant John Cranmer

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Perhaps one of the Canaries' best-known endemics - the Blue Chaffinch © tour participant John Cranmer The Canaries race of Great Spotted Woodpecker is easily recognised by its dingy underparts © tour participant John Cranmer Stands of endemic Canary Islands Pine (Pinus canariensis ) still clothe mid-elevation slopes of Mount Teide, Tenerife © tour participant John Cranmer Fresh lava flows on the flanks of Mt Teide, Spain's highest peak. © tour participant John Cranmer Perhaps the most striking of Tenerife's endemic giant buglosses, Echium wildpretii © tour participant John Cranmer
A place in the clouds - the volcanic cone of Mount Teide dominates the island of Tenerife © tour participant John Cranmer Development encroaches wherever there is flat land on Tenerife, but much of the very rugged north coast (seen here) survives intact, along with its endemic plants © tour participant John Cranmer Cory's Shearwaters pass close to the ferry as our group heads across to La Gomera © tour participant John Cranmer Hoopoe on the lawn? It must be a vicarge! OK, it's the park on La Gomera. © tour participant John Cranmer The moisture-laden cloud forest zone of La Gomera makes an amazingly stark contrast to the barren slopes of Fuerteventura © tour participant John Cranmer
Picnic spot in the laurel forest, La Gomera © tour participant John Cranmer Perhaps less well-known than the Blue Chaffinch, the local race of Common Chaffinch (here a male) is pretty blue too! © tour participant John Cranmer It might look like the one in your garden, but the Canary Islands Speckled Wood is subtly different below (honest!) © tour participant John Cranmer Ixanthus viscosus on La Gomera - an endemic member of the gentian family © tour participant John Cranmer The rugged slopes of La Gomera © tour participant John Cranmer
The delightful Canary Islands Stonechat is a must-see bird on the island of Fuerteventura © tour participant John Cranmer Female Canary Islands Stonechat, Fuerteventura © tour participant John Cranmer Monarches are well established on the Canary Islands, having got there under their own steam © tour participant John Cranmer Cream-coloured Coursers are always favourites with our groups on Fuerteventura © tour participant John Cranmer Isn't evolution amazing!! This endemic spurge (Euphorbia handiensis) on the island of Fuerteventura has evolvoed over millions of years to look exactly like a cactus from the New World, due to living in very similar climatic conditions © tour participant John Cranmer
Typical scene on Fuerteventura, one of the arid eastern group of islands in the Canaries © tour participant John Cranmer So nice when endemic birds come to you - Bertholot's Pipits will walk over your feet if you're not careful! © tour participant John Cranmer Research has demonstrated that, vocally, Canaries Robins of the form superbus differ significantly vocally from mainland European birds. Note also the lack of blue-grey border to the orange bib © tour participant John Cranmer Atlantic Lizard (Gallotia atlantica) on Tenerife (yes, it's another endemic!) © tour participant John Cranmer Another cactiform spurge, this one is Euphorbia canariensis on Tenerife © tour participant John Cranmer
Any guesses? Well, believe it or not, Kleinia neriifolia really is in the daisy family! © tour participant John Cranmer A second ferry trip meant that our 2008 group got an unexpected encounter with a Cuvier's Beaked Whale © tour participant John Cranmer On the Moon? No it's Las Cañadas National Park on Tenerife © tour participant John Cranmer Photographing Echium auberianum on Tenerife © tour participant John Cranmer Where the desert meets the sea - Fuerteventura's windswept east coast © tour participant John Cranmer