In June 1981, a special wallcreeper stamp was issued as part of the country’s Nature Protection series. miles in area, located between France and Spain. The principality of Andorra is a rather small country, only 182 sq.
Les Alpilles is well known for its limestone hills, the wallcreeper’s favorite. In France there is a winter tour designed specifically to find the wallcreeper in the Les Alpilles, after the birds descend from their breeding grounds in the high Alps. True to its name An extremely agile wallcreeper clings to a steep rock face with its long, sharp toes. It descends to mountain villages in the winter, where it searches the walls of stone buildings and other crevices for food. In its natural habitat, the bird prefers steep, mountainous regions in the spring and summer months, choosing rock that is partially covered with plants. True to its name, the wallcreeper inhabits walls of all sorts, including those made by man, such as castles, tunnels and large bridges. From rocky riverbeds to clay cliffs, boulder-strewn slopes to stone cathedrals, the wallcreeper calls a variety of precipitous places home - but the bird’s favorite haunts are limestone hills and jagged cliffs.
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