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Showing posts with label Picos de Europa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picos de Europa. Show all posts

Wednesday 19 June 2013

FIRECREST Regulus ignicapilla Fuente Dé, Picos de Europa, Cantabria, Spain

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BLACK REDSTART (Phoenicurus ochruros) Fuente Dé, Picos de Europa, Cantabria, Spain

 
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The Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) is a small perching bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae which is the genus Phoenicurus. It is a locally common resident in central and southern Europe and northern Africa. It also occurs in western and central Asia. In the warmer parts of its range it is sedentary. The northern populations migrate in the autumn to spend the winter in southern and western Europe, northern Africa and the Indian sub continent. 

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Wednesday 20 February 2013

CRYPTIC WOOD WHITE BUTTERFLY (Leptidea juvernica) Picos de Europa, Asturias, Spain


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The Cryptic Wood White Butterfly (Leptidea juvernica) is of the family Pieridae which is in the genus Leptidea.