Hello from Portugal!

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Hello from Portugal!

Postby Ana Goncalves » Sat Dec 14, 2013 5:23 pm

Hi all :-)

I'm from Portugal and, at the moment, I'm a Biology student at the University of Coimbra.
I've always been, since I can remember, interested in Nature...especially the European Biodiversity. Amphibians and reptiles are one of my biggest passions and, because I live in the countryside, I grew up looking for them.
Besides this, I spend much of my free time colecting and studing insects, mainly Diptera, as they are also one of my biggest interests since I was a child.
Portugal is a very biodiverse region but my aim is, also, to visit other regions in Europe to find more species.

These are some pictures taken in Portugal:
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Vipera latastei
Peneda-Gerês National Park

Chioglossa.jpg
Chioglossa lusitanica
Mata Nacional do Buçaco

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Pelodytes punctatus

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Salamandra salamandra
Mata Nacional do Buçaco
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Re: Hello from Portugal!

Postby Paul Bachhausen » Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:13 pm

Hi Ana,
beautiful Photos - especially I like that of Chioglossa lusitanica and Salamandra salamandra!
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Re: Hello from Portugal!

Postby Ana Goncalves » Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:16 pm

Thank you, Paul :-)
C. lusitanica is an amazing species and one of my favorites.
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Re: Hello from Portugal!

Postby Bart Smit » Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:40 pm

hi Ana, welcome to the forum. You have a great flickr stream.

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Re: Hello from Portugal!

Postby Paul Bachhausen » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:10 pm

Ana Goncalves wrote:Thank you, Paul :-)
C. lusitanica is an amazing species and one of my favorites.

I've never seen Chioglossa in nature! But it is very high on my "todo" list
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Re: Hello from Portugal!

Postby Liam Russell » Sun Dec 15, 2013 11:37 am

Welcome to the forum. Portugal is great for herping!

Here's a salamander from the Serra de Lousa, near to you. I looked for Chioglossa there too but only found larvae.

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Re: Hello from Portugal!

Postby Ana Goncalves » Sun Dec 15, 2013 2:57 pm

Paul, if you visit Portugal you will easily find C. lusitanica in good numbers in Buçaco Forest. :)

Liam, nice specimen and it also has those marks that resembles "horseshoes".
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Re: Hello from Portugal!

Postby Ana Goncalves » Sun Dec 15, 2013 2:59 pm

Bart Smit wrote:hi Ana, welcome to the forum. You have a great flickr stream.

Bart


Thank you! I also saw yours and you have a great collection of amphibians and reptiles.
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Re: Hello from Portugal!

Postby Ronald Zimmerman » Sun Dec 15, 2013 4:59 pm

Nice Vipera latastei! I am so jealous. You have great nature around you :)
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Re: Hello from Portugal!

Postby Ana Goncalves » Sun Dec 15, 2013 6:16 pm

Ronald Zimmerman wrote:Nice Vipera latastei! I am so jealous. You have great nature around you :)

I wish it could be more protected. Unfortunately there's many problems with invasive species, monocultures of Eucalyptus and Pinus, wildfires (many of them correlated with monocultures) dams,... that destroy places very rich in wildlife :( The major problem is that, even if we recover part of the ecossystems that have been "hurted", it will never be as before and some endemic species are lost forever.
But...Even if fragmented, we still have true biodiversity paradises :) And they are quite different from north to south.
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