Non-Venomous Scientific: Anguis fragilis (The previous Spanish subspecies Anguis fragilis fragilis is now with the western European populations) English: Slow Worm Spanish: Lución Portuguese: Licranço Galician: Escáncer común Family: Anguidae Distribution: Northern Spain and north and central Portugal, as well as the entire European mainland. Western Europe, northern Europe and western Balcans) Identification and similar … Read more
English: Spanish Psammodromus / Sandrunner Scientific: Psammodromus hispanicus hispanicus Spanish: Lagartija cenicienta Portuguese: Lagartixo-do-mato-ibérico Family: Lacertidae Distribution: Iberia, Western and central Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). (Absent from most of north and all of north-west.) The northernmost populations were known in the 1980s from Orense, León, Tarragona, Barcelona and Gerona. Subspecies: Eastern Psammodromus hispanicus edwardsianus … Read more
Fantastic footage observing fin whales using drones off the Catalan coast. These researchers are using drones to film and record behaviour that can’t be observed from the deck of a boat. The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), also known as finback whale or common rorqual and formerly known as herring whale or razorback whale, is a … Read more
It seems that the success up in the north of Spain for the Bearded vulture reintroduction now requires the translocation of “floaters”. Ie non breeding bearded vultures that are infringing on the territory of breeding pairs….. It really is fascinating and incredible work that these guys are doing at the Vulture Conservation Foundation. Read more … Read more