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Describes the avian-dominated ichnofauna and discusses its paleoenvironmental significance as a classic example of the shorebird ichnofacies from the Miocene age in the Sorbas Basin in southern Spain. Overview of the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Miocene sediments of the Sorbas Basin; Description of the avian ichnofauna; Mechanics of formation and preservation potential of mammalian and avian footprints and trackways.

Demonstrates that dropstones are unreliable palaeoclimatic indicators by using an example from southeast Spain. Dropstones as clasts which pose a hydrodynamic paradox or which have an exotic lithology with uncertain provenance; Association with glacial processes; Utility of dropstones.