Iberian Wildlife
Every animal here has a full story on the channel, set in a real territory of the Iberian Peninsula, and a species page with real facts and named sources. The animals and their stories are fiction; the species, their territories and their threats are real. The newest story comes first.
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Birds · Glayu
Eurasian Jay
He lowers his head and drives a single acorn into the soil, then pulls a dead leaf across it. He will do this thousands of times before the autumn ends.
Video 12:25 -
Mammals · Jara
European Wildcat
A three-month-old kitten alone on a firebreak, ten metres from a fire truck. Anyone would have picked her up.
Video 9:23 -
Birds · Sombra
Cinereous Vulture
Wings almost three metres across, and a body too heavy to lift them off the ground.
Video 8:01 -
Birds · Argayu
Griffon Vulture
Nothing touched him. No wound, no fight, no fall. And a griffon vulture that could not leave the ground.
Video 8:01 -
Birds · Tirso
Woodchat Shrike
A snake in the dry grass, and a small hunter too weak to be a hunter any more.
Video 8:01 -
Mammals · Cobre
Red Fox
He knew every path down his mountain. The fire closed them one by one, from the bottom up.
Video 8:07 -
Birds · Cierzo
Bearded Vulture
By the time the cold reached the nest, he was already on the ground. Two hundred metres below the only chick he could no longer reach.
Video 8:01 -
Birds · Bruma
Cantabrian Capercaillie
By the time the storm broke over the mountain, her chicks were only a day old.
Video 8:07 -
Birds · Cima
Spanish Imperial Eagle
By the time the man found him, the young eagle had already lost the sky.
Video 6:23 -
Birds · Brasa
European Bee-Eater
He arrived ahead of everyone. Then the cold came back, and there was no flock to sit inside.
Video 8:03 -
Mammals · Neru
Cantabrian Brown Bear
The slope gave way in the rain and took the path with it. On the far side there is a bear, twenty months old, with nowhere left to climb.
Video 8:06 -
Mammals · Roque
Iberian Wolf
A biologist finds tracks in the dust of a dehesa where wolves had been gone for decades. The stride is wrong for a dog.
Video 6:53 -
Mammals · Alba
Iberian Lynx
A ranger stops his vehicle at four in the morning. On the shoulder of the road there is a lynx, and her coat is the wrong colour.
Video 7:32
