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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 ...
Last North Atlantic right whale killed by whalers in Orio, Spain (1901) Fin whale watching off Tarifa in strait of Gibraltar Common dolphins in Gibraltar Bay Small numbers of striped dolphins around Gijón. The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Canary Islands, Spain. [1] Since the Osorian shrew (Crocidura osorio) was proven to be actually a population of introduced European greater white-toothed shrew (C. russula) [2] the Canarian shrew, C. canariensis is believed to be the only surviving native terrestrial mammal of the archipelago, every other species now present having been ...
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. The avifauna of Spain included a total of 664 species recorded in the wild by 2022 according to Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife) with supplemental additions from Avibase.
Fauna of Spain (8 C, 67 P) Pages in category "Fauna of the Iberian Peninsula" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
All three land mammal species once endemic to the Balearic Islands, Spain (the Majorcan giant dormouse, the Balearic shrew and the goat-like ruminant Myotragus balearicus) are currently extinct, [1] while those presently found on the archipelago have been introduced voluntarily or accidentally by humans in colonization waves beginning in the Neolithic.
Endemic fauna of Spain (2 C, 230 P) Individual animals in Spain (9 P) * Lists of mammals of Spain (5 P) A. Animal welfare and rights in Spain (4 C, 2 P) B.
Osborne bull in Las Cabezas de San Juan, Sevilla. The Osborne bull (Spanish: El Toro de Osborne) is a black silhouetted image of a bull in semi-profile. Erected as either 14-meter-tall (46 ft) or seven-meter-tall (23 ft) billboards, as of July 2022 there are 92 of them installed on hilltops and along roadways throughout much of Spain.