8-3-2023 BIOPARC, VALENCIA - DRILL (Mandrillus leucophaeus)

The drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) is a primate of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), related to baboons and even more closely to mandrills.

Drills are found only in Cross River State in Nigeria, southwestern Cameroon (south to the Sanaga River), and on Bioko Island, part of Equatorial Guinea, in rainforest habitats. Their entire global range is less than 40,000 km2.

Drills are among Africa’s most endangered mammals, and are listed by the IUCN as the highest conservation priority of all African primates. Drill numbers have been declining in all known habitat areas for decades as a result of illegal commercial hunting, habitat destruction, and human development; as few as 3,000 drills may remain in the wild, with the highest population estimate only 8,000. A total of 174 drills recovered from illegal capture are in semicaptivity at the Drill Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre in Nigeria, with high success rates in breeding recorded there, and about 40 in other zoos internationally.

19-3-2023 EL PALMAR, ALBUFERA - BARN SWALLOW (Hirundo rustica)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/11901-Hirundo-rustica

19-3-2023 CREU DE LONGA, ALBUFERA - GREY HERON (Ardea cinerea)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4954-Ardea-cinerea

19-3-2023 CREU DE LONGA, ALBUFERA - LITTLE RINGED PLOVER (Charadrius dubius)

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151617577

18-3-2023 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - NOMISSIA GROUND SPIDER (Genus Nomisia)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/354270-Nomisia

18-3-2023 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - WAVE MOTH (Idaea minuscularia)

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151499275

18-3-2023 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - SMALL BLOOD VEIN MOTH (Scopula imitaria)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/205090-Scopula-imitaria

18-3-2023 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - GARDEN CARPET MOTH (Xanthorhoe fluctuata)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/243705-Xanthorhoe-fluctuata

12-3-2023 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - HOUSE SPARROW (MALE) (Passer domesticus)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13858-Passer-domesticus

17-3-2023 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - WAVE MOTH (Idaea minuscularia)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/468460-Idaea-minuscularia

13-3-2023 - MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - PINE BEAUTY MOTH (Panolis flammea)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/349281-Panolis-flammea

13-3-2023 - MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - OLEANDER SEED BUG (Caenocoris nerii)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/424562-Caenocoris-nerii

12-3-2023 RIO SERPIS VILLALONGA, VALENCIA - EUROPEAN STONECHAT (MALE) (Saxicola rubicola)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201192-Saxicola-rubicola

12-3-2023 RIO SERPIS VILLALONGA, VALENCIA - EUROPEAN STONECHAT (FEMALE) (Saxicola rubicola)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201192-Saxicola-rubicola

8-3-2023 BIOPARC, VALENCIA - EGYPTIAN GOOSE (Alopochen aegyptiaca)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/72486-Alopochen-aegyptiaca

8-3-2023 BIOPARC, VALENCIA - FOREST SITATUNGA (Tragelaphus spekii ssp. gratus)

The Sitatunga, a swamp-dwelling antelope, exhibits great elongation of the hooves, which have a wide splay and naked padlike pattern. They possess unique flexibility of the joints at the feet, representing structural adaptations for walking on boggy and marshy ground.

Coloration varies geographically and individually. Males are gray-brown to chocolate-brown, females are brown to bright chestnut, and calves are bright rufous-red, woolly coated, spotted, and striped. Adults are long coated and have characteristic whiteish marks on the face, ears, cheeks, body, legs, and feet.

Males are considerably larger than females (100 cm tall vs. 75-90 cm tall). Males possess horns ranging in length from 508-924 mm. Horns are characterized by two twists and are ivory tipped. 

8-3-2023 BIOPARC, VALENCIA - RED BELLIED LEMUR (Eulemur rubriventer)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43612-Eulemur-rubriventer

9-3-2023 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - SCLEROSOMATID HARVESTMAN (Cosmobunus granarius)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/533412-Cosmobunus-granarius

15-3-2023 MONTE CORONA, VALENCIA - WAVE MOTH (Idaea eugeniata)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/318960-Idaea-eugeniata

15-3-2023 RIBA-ROJA DE TURIA, VALENCIA - ROSE RINGED PARAKEET (Psittacula krameri)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/18911-Psittacula-krameri

15-3-2023 RIBA-ROJA DE TURIA, VALENCIA - LITTLE EGRET (Egretta garzetta)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4943-Egretta-garzetta

15-3-2023 RIBA-ROJA DE TURIA, VALENCIA - EUROPEAN SERIN (MALE) (Serinus serinus)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9236-Serinus-serinus

15-3-2023 RIBA-ROJA DE TURIA, VALENCIA - LONG HEADED POPPY (Papaver dubium)

15-3-2023 RIBA-ROJA DE TURIA, VALENCIA - CETTI'S WARBLER

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/116858-Cettia-cetti

8-3-2023 BIOPARC, VALENCIA - RING TAILED LEMUR (Lemur catta)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43617-Lemur-catta