Berlengas Islands Nature Reserve Field Guide

The Berlengas Islands Nature Reserve includes a group of rocky islands near the western coast of Portugal and their surrounding waters. This guide aims to help the curious and the visitor alike enjoy this unique place, with its rarities and endemisms.

Band-rumped Storm-Petrel 5
Oceanodroma castro
Beadlet anemone
Actinia equina
Beleño 6
Hyoscyamus albus
Bermuda Buttercup 7
Oxalis pes-caprae
Big Quakinggrass 8
Briza maxima
Black Rat 9
Rattus rattus
Black Seabream 10
Spondyliosoma cantharus
Black nightshade 11
Solanum nigrum
Black-faced blenny 12
Tripterygion delaisi
Bottlenose Dolphin 13
Tursiops truncatus
Common Dolphin 22
Delphinus delphis
Common Duckweed 23
Lemna minor
Common Fig 24
Ficus carica
Common Murre 25
Uria aalge
Common Porpoise 26
Phocoena phocoena
Common Prawn 20
Palaemon serratus
Common Two-banded Seabream 27
Diplodus vulgaris
Conger eel
Conger conger
Cretan mallow 29
Malva pseudolavatera
Crystalline Ice Plant 30
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Cuckoo Wrasse 31
Labrus mixtus
Cuvier's Beaked Whale 32
Ziphius cavirostris
European Seabass 10
Dicentrarchus labrax
European Shag 36
Phalacrocorax aristotelis
European Spider Crab
Maja squinado
European Spiny Lobster 37
Palinurus elephas

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