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This is a list of the bird species recorded in Spain. The area covered by this list is mainland Spain, the Balearic Islands , the Canary Islands , and three small Spanish enclaves on the North African shore.
Large numbers of black kites and other birds of prey migrate via the Straits of Gibraltar. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Gibraltar. The avifauna of Gibraltar include a total of 329 species, of which 2 have been introduced by humans. The majority of the introduced species are wanderers from introduced populations in Spain.
Topographic map of Spain. The wildlife of Spain includes the diverse flora and fauna of Spain.The country located at the south of France has two long coastlines, one on the north on the Cantabrian Sea, another on the East and South East on the Mediterranean Sea, and a smaller one on the west and south west on the Atlantic Ocean, its territory includes a big part of the Iberian Peninsula, the ...
An isolated southern population in the Sierra Morena of western Andalucia dwindled in numbers and interbred with dogs, and may now be extinct. [7] The ecoregion is home to over 150 species of birds, including the Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti) and golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos). [4]
[2] [10] On the Mediterranean islands of Malta, Gozo, Crete, Rhodes and Karpathos, there are more apparently intermediate birds of unknown status. [11] The Spanish sparrow was first described by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck as Fringilla hispaniolensis, from a specimen collected at Algeciras, in southern Spain. The usual English ...
Finches are seed-eating passerine birds, that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have twelve tail feathers and nine primaries. These birds have a bouncing flight with alternating bouts of flapping and gliding on closed wings, and most sing well. Common chaffinch, Fringilla ...
Doñana National Park or Parque Nacional y Natural de Doñana is a natural reserve in Andalusia, southern Spain, in the provinces of Huelva (most of its territory within the municipality of Almonte [2]), Cádiz and Seville. It covers 543 km 2 (209.65 sq mi), of which 135 km 2 (52.12 sq mi) are a protected area.
The southeastern Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica hispanica), or the Spanish ibex, is an ibex that is endemic to Spain and is the only wild caprine native to Spain. [1] It is a subspecies of the Iberian ibex.