Do you want to come to Extremadura and don't know where to start? Find here the keys to discover its fauna and its secrets!
Mammal pictures
Most of the photos here are courtesy of friends and acquaintances, I take this opportunity to thank them all again. All the photos have the reserved rights of each author, who has given them to be spread in this web page.
Badger
Eurasian pigmy shrew
Autumn is a good time to see young specimens.
Lesser mouse-eared bat
Common genet, Fernando Mostacero
American mink
Common bent-wing bat
Spanish ibex, Ángel Cañones
Otter in Orellana lake
Lesser white-toothed shrew
Geoffroy’s bat
European polecat
Roe deer in Ahigal de los Aceiteros
Cabrera’s vole
Wood mouse
Garden dormouse, Ángel Cañones
Mouflons, Ángel Cañones
Iberian lynx in Campiña Sur (december 2024)
Weasel
Lesser horseshoe bat
Southwestern water vole
Curious group: young male, female and calf
European hedgehog, Alex Fabra
Boar in the forest
Several fallow deers grazing peacefully
Iberian lynx female in Extremadura
House mouse
Pair of lynxes about to mate in December
Egyptian mongoose
Brown long-eared bat
European wildcat
Mediterranean pine vole, Alfonso Roldán Losada
Grey long-eared bat
Common genet, Fernando Mostacero
field vole
Young male of fallow deer
Bechstein’s bat
Rabbits with myxomatosis are always an easy prey.
Summer is a good moment to watch lynx cubs
Iberian shrew
Common pipistrelle
Whiskered bat
European snow vole
Red deer, Isaac Fdez Galisteo
Iberian hare in La Albuera
Female with cubs
Etruscan shrew
Pyrenean desman
Kuhl’s pipistrelle
Iberian lynx photographed at a great distance
Greater mouse-eared bat
Beech marten
Roe deer in Ahigal de los Aceiteros
Serotine bat
Greater noctule bat
Young Iberian lynx cub
Barbary sheep, Ángel Cañones
Spanish mole
Two lynx cubs photographed in Extremadura in summer 2024