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Cranes arrive to Gallocanta (9/11/2006)
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PACTO CON LOBOS 2
This second episode "
"Leyenda y realidad del lobo ibérico" looks at the historical and modern relationships between man and wolves in Spain, and the problems and solutions of wolf conservation here. Essential viewing. Awful music.
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PACTO CON LOBOS
1 hour Spanish TVE documentary (TVE press note) broadcast for the first time last night on the natural history of wolves in Spain and ripped by forestman.. ) Next week second 1 hour part on conflicts with humans. You need JAVA ENABLED. Note, it's worth putting up with the crap music at the start. This is a good documentary. Wolf killing a genet and a fox, cubs learning to eat a rabbit and playing with a dead magpie, wolves gorging on figs, a fight with a Montpellier snake.
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Autumn in Spain. 30 minute Spanish TV documentary on the changes in the natural world in Spain Part 1
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Autumn in Spain. 30 minute Spanish TV documentary on the changes in the natural world in Spain Part 2
Magpies preying on common pipistrelle
The December print edition of the execellent Quercus(the only wildlife magazine in Spain) had an interesting article on magpies preying on bats - common pipistrelle (murciélago enano Pipistrellus pipistrellus). After a chance observation in the town of Alcala de Henares (near Madrid) the Universidad de Alcala de Henares carried out a survey. A pair of magpies preyed on a colony of pipistelles, by waiting above and snatching the bats as they come out of their roost. Over the study peiod they took 1 bat a day. This is first documented case in Spain, and one of the first in the world (there is a UK citation). The authors speculate that as magpies expand into Spanish cities they will acquire new habits and skills, and that bats, a plentiful food source, may well represent a common prey. Video from the university website here or click above on play (you need flash to see this). See also bats in Spain
Like most things from the sea around Spain, barnacles (Pollicipes cornucopiae) are eaten here. They are found solely on Northern Spain 's Atlantic coasts, principally in Galicia and to a much lesser extent along the Cantabrian strip, and eaten, moderately, throughout the country.
After spawning, the larvae grow to a ‘commercial' size within six months (at least five centimetres long 0.9cm wide). They are collected by perceberos (percebeiros in Galician), surely one of the most dangerous jobs in Europe. Their collection is regulated by several regional boards governing when and how they can be picked. Read Barnacles in Spain
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Lesser kestrel (Cernicalo Primilla Falco naumanni) in Almedralejo.
1 min 54 sec by TVE forestman
This 30 minute video by TVE is great. Scripted by lynx expert, Miguel Delibes and screened in May 2006. An excellent overview of all aspects of the species. Click on play (Note: it's not a cartoon!) by forestman
This short film in English is "about the cork industry in Portugal and how sustainable cork production and the wine industry saves the forests (once) inhabited by the critically endangered Iberian Lynx" (4m3s) www.panda.org
When the Mediterrenan dried out (
6 min 10 sec) by forestman
El Toro Amigo. Poetic natural life history by TVE of a fighting bull from its birth, its life in the dehesa until just before its end in the plaza (
55 min 26 sec)
