P :
págalo grande : great skua : Stercorarius skua
págalo parásito : arctic skua : Stercorarius parasiticus
págalo pomarino : pomarine skua : Stercorarius pomarinus
págalo rabero : long-tailed skua : Stercorarius longicaudus
pagaza piconegra : gull-billed tern : Gelochelidon nilotica
pagaza piquirroja : Caspian tern : Sterna caspia
pagés (Cat.) : payés
paíño boreal : Leach's storm-petrel : Oceanodroma leucorhoa
paíño de Madeira : Madeiran storm-petrel : Oceanodroma castro
paíño de Wilson : Wilson 's storm-petrel : Oceanites oceanicus
paíño europeo : European storm-petrel : Hydrobates pelagicus
paíño pechialbo : white-faced storm-petrel : Pelagodroma marina
paisaje : landscape
paja : straw
pajar : barn
pájaro moscón : penduline tit : Remiz pendulinus
palloza : traditional, Galician round hut with stone walls and a thatched roof
palmera : palm tree :
paloma bravía : rock dove : Columba livia
paloma rabiche : laurel pigeon : Columba junoniae
paloma torcaz : common wood pigeon : Columba palumbus
paloma turqué : Bolle's pigeon : Columba bollii
paloma zurita : stock dove : Columba oenas
palomar : ornate dovecotes. Essential architectural and landcsape element of the wheatlands of Castille-Leon., as the horreo is to Asturias and Galicia and the Molino to Castilla-La-Mancha. This blurry one here is a few miles from Vilafafila in Zamora. See Palomares of Spain.
paludismo : or simply malaria. Malaria has had a significant impact on the Spanish landscape, condemning many wetlands to drainage, and saving some such as Doñana , because of the fear these places invoked. See See Malaria in Spain:
pámpana : vine leaf
pana : piece of cork bark :
panal : honeycomb :
panera : place used to store cereals; a hórreo in Asturias built on 6 pillars as the one below:
pantà (Cat.) : pantano
pantano : marsh; bog (natural); reservoir (artificial)
papamoscas cerrojillo : pied flycatcher : Ficedula hypoleuca
papamoscas gris : spotted flycatcher : Muscicapa striata
paramera : high moorlands.
páramo : high moor, often used to describe the sparse garrigue vegetation of the limestone plateaus of central Spain , as in El Páramo de la Lora on the Cantabria-Burgos border
pardela balear : Balearic shearwater : Puffinus mauretanicus
pardela capirotada : great shearwater : Puffinus gravis
pardela cenicienta : cory's shearwater : Calonectris diomedea
pardela chica : little shearwater : Puffinus assimilis
pardela mediterránea : Levantine shearwater : Puffinus yelkouan
pardela pichoneta : Manx shearwater : Puffinus puffinus
pardela sombría : sooty shearwater : Puffinus griseus
pardillo común : linnet : Carduelis cannabina
pardina ( Arag .) : pasture
pared : cliff face; wall.
pared seca : dry-stone wall, for example in Menorca
parra : grapevine; hoja de parra -vine leaf
pas ( Cant ): place where cattle are left at night to rest
paso : passage (birds); pass (between mountains)
pastizal : pasture
pasto : pasture
pastor : shepherd
pastoreo : grazing
pato colorado : red-crested pochard : Netta rufina
pato havelda : long-tailed duck : Clangula hyemalis
payés : Catalan farmer or peasant
pechiazul : bluethroat : Luscinia svecica
pedregal : stony ground.
pedriscal : pedregal
pelaje: fur
pelota de regurgitación : pellet (owl) :
pena (Gal.) : crag
peña : cliff; crag
peñalar : peñascal
peñascal : rocky place; rocky hill.
peñón : mass of rock. El Peñón - the Rock (of Gibraltar )
penya (Cat.) : crag
peral : pear tree :
percebeiro (Gal.) : barnacle collector
perdigón : young partridge; shot (pellets)
perdiz moruna : barbary partridge : Alectoris barbara
perdiz pardilla : grey partridge : Perdix perdix
perdiz roja : red-legged partridge : Alectoris rufa
perro de pastor : sheepdog :
pescuezo : neck (of mammal)
petirrojo : robin : Erithacus rubecula
petrel de Bulwer : Bulwer's petrel : Bulweria bulwerii
pezuña : hoof :
pezuña : hoof; trotter
piara : group of pigs
pic (Cat.) : peak
pica (Cat.) : peak
picacho : jagged peak
pico : peak
pico de coral : common waxbill : Estrilda astrild
pico dorsiblanco : white-backed woodpecker : Dendrocopos leucotos
pico mediano : middle spotted woodpecker : Dendrocopos medius
pico menor : lesser spotted woodpecker : Dendrocopos minor
pico picapinos : great spotted woodpecker : Dendrocopos major
picogordo : hawfinch : Coccothraustes coccothraustes
piña : pine cone
pinar : pine forest
pinar: pinewood
pinaspar : fir forest found only in the Sierra de Grazalema .
piñon : pinenut
pinzón azul : blue chaffinch : Fringilla teydea
pinzón real : brambling : Fringilla montifringilla
pinzón vulgar : common chaffinch : Fringilla coelebs
piojo : louse
piornal : broom scrub
piquituerto común : common crossbill : Loxia curvirostra
piscifactoria : fishfarm
Fishfarm on Galicia's spectaular Costa da Morte. Note the wind turbines to the left. The clouds in the left background are really smoke from a fire, one of thousands to hit Galicia in summer 2005.
pista forestal : forest track
pista ; track
pito negro : black woodpecker : Dryocopus martius
pito real : green woodpecker : Picus viridis
pitón : horn
pizarra : slate
pla (Cat.) : plain
plan ( Arag ) : plain
plana (Cat.) : plain
planell (Cat.) : meseta
planicie : plain
platja (Cat.) : beach
playa : beach; sandy river bank
playa de chinas : pebble beach
pleamar : high tide
pluma : feather
plumaje : plumage
PNH : Plan Nacional Hidrológico See River Ebro
pocilga : pigsty
poda : pruning
polilla : moth :
pollada : brood
pollo : chick
polluela bastarda : little crake : Porzana parva
polluela chica : baillon's crake : Porzana pusilla
polluela pintoja : spotted crake : Porzana porzana
polluela sora : sora crake : Porzana carolina
polluelo : chick
porreo: brackish grazing land
porrón bastardo : greater scaup : Aythya marila
porrón europeo : common pochard : Aythya ferina
porrón moñudo : tufted duck : Aythya fuligula
porrón osculado : common goldeneye : Bucephala clangula
porrón pardo : ferruginous duck : Aythya nyroca
portillo : narrow pass
posadero : roost; perch
potro : foal
poza : river pool
pozo : well; river pool ; large puddle
pozo de nieve : snow store
pradera : large meadow
prado : meadow
praia (Gal.) : beach
prat (Cat.) : meadow; coastal marsh as in El Prat de Llobregat
presa : prey
procesionaria : pine processionary moth
promontorio : headland; promontory
pseudoestepa : pseudosteppe - a term preferred over Steppe to describe the Steppe-like habitat of central Spain
puerto : mountain pass; port
pueyo : isolated hill rising above a plain.
puig (Cat.) : mountain
pujol (Cat.) : hill
pulga : flea
punta : coastal point; headland
Q :
quebrada : cleft; gorge; ravine
quebrantahuesos : lammergeier / lammergeyer : Gypaetus barbatus
quejigal / quejigar : gall-oak wood