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.

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Phoenicurus ochruros gibraltariensis

Ocellated Lizard ¹
Timon lepidus

Podarcis carbonelli berlengensis

Lesser Black-backed Gull ²
Larus fuscus

Yellow-legged Gull ³
Larus michahellis

Common Murre ⁴
Uria aalge

Cory's Shearwater ⁵
Calonectris diomedea

Band-rumped Storm-Petrel ⁶
Oceanodroma castro

Peregrine Falcon ⁷
Falco peregrinus

European Shag ⁸
Phalacrocorax aristotelis

Cuvier's Beaked Whale ⁹
Ziphius cavirostris

Common Porpoise ¹⁰
Phocoena phocoena

Bottlenose Dolphin ¹¹
Tursiops truncatus

Striped Dolphin ¹²
Stenella coeruleoalba

Common Dolphin ¹³
Delphinus delphis

Minke Whale ¹⁴
Balaenoptera acutorostrata

European Rabbit ¹⁵
Oryctolagus cuniculus

Black Rat ¹⁶
Rattus rattus

Ocean Sunfish ¹⁷
Mola mola

Grey Triggerfish ¹⁸
Balistes capriscus

Red Mullet ¹⁹
Mullus barbatus

Striped Red Mullet ²⁰
Mullus surmuletus

Atlantic Horse Mackerel ²¹
Trachurus trachurus

Yellow-headed goby ²²
Gobius xanthocephalus

Gobiusculus flavescens

Pomatoschistus marmoratus

Thorogobius ephippiatus ²³

Dusky Grouper ¹⁸
Epinephelus marginatus

Diplodus cervinus

Sargo-legítimo
Diplodus sargus

Common Two-banded Seabream ¹⁸
Diplodus vulgaris

Red Porgy ²⁴
Pagrus pagrus

Salema Porgy ²⁵
Sarpa salpa

Gilthead Seabream ²⁶
Sparus aurata

Black Seabream ²⁷
Spondyliosoma cantharus

Goldsinny Wrasse ²³
Ctenolabrus rupestris

Labrus bergylta

Cuckoo Wrasse ²³
Labrus mixtus

Symphodus bailloni

Tompot Blenny ²⁸
Parablennius gattorugine

Parablennius pilicornis

European Seabass ²⁷
Dicentrarchus labrax

thicklip grey mullet ²⁹
Chelon labrosus

Black-faced blenny ³⁰
Tripterygion delaisi

Syngnathus acus

Scorpaena ³¹

Trigloporus lastoviza

Mediterranean moray ¹²
Muraena helena

Conger eel
Conger conger

Zeugopterus punctatus

Faneca
Trisopterus luscus

Abrótea-da-costa
Phycis phycis

John Dory ³²
Zeus faber

School Shark
Galeorhinus galeus

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