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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.
Iberian lynx photographed at a great distance
Lesser mouse-eared bat
Serotine bat
European wildcat
Barbary sheep, Ángel Cañones
Kuhl’s pipistrelle
Mediterranean pine vole, Alfonso Roldán Losada
Beech marten
Mediterranean horseshoe bat
Egyptian mongoose
Rabbits are the main prey of the Iberian lynx
Lusitanian pine vole
Etruscan shrew
Young mouflon in Alia
Red fox hunting for voles near Badajoz
Iberian lynx female in Extremadura
Lesser horseshoe bat
Female with cubs
Eurasian pigmy shrew
Western barbastelle, Ján Svetlík
Algerian mouse
European hedgehog, Alex Fabra
Greater noctule bat
Curious group: young male, female and calf
Deer rut, one of the great attractions of this activity
European polecat
Iberian hare in La Albuera
Cabrera’s vole
Greater white-toothed shrew
European snow vole
field vole
Spanish mole
American mink
Egyptian mongoose in Badajoz
Several fallow deers grazing peacefully
Common pipistrelle
Spanish ibex male
Red deer in Garcia Sola lake
Lynx drinking water on the shore of a reservoir
Common bent-wing bat
Red deer, Isaac Fdez Galisteo
Common genet, Fernando Mostacero
Bechstein’s bat
Iberian shrew
Whiskered bat
House mouse
Pair of lynxes about to mate in December
Roe deer in Ahigal de los Aceiteros
Boar in the forest
Summer is a good moment to watch lynx cubs
Daubenton’s bat
Southwestern water vole
Wood mouse
Iberian lynx in Campiña Sur (december 2024)
Greater mouse-eared bat
Common genet, Fernando Mostacero
2 lynx together in winter 2024
Lesser white-toothed shrew
Young male of fallow deer
Rabbits with myxomatosis are always an easy prey.
Roe deer in Ahigal de los Aceiteros
Grey long-eared bat
Geoffroy’s bat
Female lynx with cubs photographed during one of our trips, July 2026
Weasel
Mouflons, Ángel Cañones
Pyrenean desman
Young Iberian lynx cub
Greater horseshoe bat
Spanish ibex, Ángel Cañones
Otter in Orellana lake
Brown long-eared bat
Autumn is a good time to see young specimens.
European rabbit in Don Benito
Garden dormouse, Ángel Cañones
Two lynx cubs photographed in Extremadura in summer 2024