Monitoring of the Fauna of the Angueira River

During 2024 and early 2025, a new round of riparian fauna monitoring was carried out, this time focused on the Angueira River. The sampling period extended from May 2024 to January 2025. The purpose of the camera traps was once again to identify the species inhabiting this ecosystem along the Portuguese section of the river, which flows through the municipalities of Miranda do Douro and Vimioso.

To date, the following species have been recorded:

Mammals

• Apodemus sylvaticus

• Arvicola sapidus (Southern water vole)

• Capreolus capreolus (Roe deer)

• Cervus elaphus (Red deer)

• Genetta genetta (Common genet)

• Lutra lutra (Eurasian otter)

• Martes foina (Stone marten)

• Meles meles (European badger)

• Neogale vison (American mink – Invasive)

• Oryctolagus cuniculus (European rabbit)

• Sus scrofa (Wild boar)

• Vulpes vulpes (Red fox)

Birds

• Anas platyrhynchos

• Ardea cinerea

• Buteo buteo

• Columba palumbus

• Corvus corone

• Dendrocopos major

• Erithacus rubecula

• Fringilla coelebs

• Garrulus glandarius

• Lophophanes cristatus

• Motacilla cinerea (Grey wagtail)

• Oriolus oriolus

• Parus major

• Prunella modularis

• Rallus aquaticus

• Troglodytes troglodytes

• Turdus merula

• Turdus philomelos

Reptiles

• Mauremys leprosa

Invertebrates

• Stylomotophera

This monitoring will continue in the future with the support of new projects currently under development.