Other trips Spain · 27. May 2024
In the early spring of 2024, I was presented with the opportunity to visit one of the last places in my country where I had never been, the archipelago of the Canary Islands. Nestled in the middle of the Atlantic next to the African coast, the Canaries are home to a multitude of endemic and unique species of fauna and flora, with unique landscapes very different from both the Iberian peninsula and the neighboring African coasts themselves, both of which I already know well. I was offered to...
Birding Iberia · 10. May 2021
With this post I am inagurating the ornithological section of my website, as until now all posts and reports were mostly about amphibians and reptiles. However, my passion for birds is older than that for herps, and although in recent years I've been more focused on the latter ones, I am resuming my birding journeys more and more, thanks in part to having some fellow birders and friends here in León. So, last Saturday was the Global Big Day. This is an event created by the Cornell Lab of...
Herping Iberia · 26. July 2020
My intention in this post is to make a summary of my herp observations inside the province in this 2020 season. It has been an atypical herping year due to the quarantine imposed for the covid disease, which made impossible to go out to the field during some of the best period here, all April and the first half of May. In spite of that, the rest of May and June are also good months here specially for reptile activity, and I have been able to enjoy lots of great encounters.
Herping Iberia · 02. May 2020
This post will be dedicated to the vipers, perhaps the most wanted animals for most herpers here in Spain. We have three viper species on the Iberian Peninsula, all three belonging to the genus Vipera. I have the luck to live close to all three species here in the Castilla y León community. Now I'm going to talk separately about my observations of each one last year.