🇵🇹 Animals of Portugal

The Atlantic puffin is a small black and white seabird with a bright triangular bill.

The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

The black kite is a medium-sized raptor with angled wings and a forked tail.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.

The brown rat is a large, burrowing rodent that lives wherever people live.

The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.

The carrion crow is an all-black crow of western Europe and eastern Asia with a heavy bill and a harsh croak.

The cockatiel is the smallest cockatoo, and it lives across the dry inland of Australia.

The common blackbird is a true thrush of Europe, North Africa and western Asia, and the male is glossy black with a yellow eye-ring.

The common buzzard is a broad-winged hawk of Europe and northern Asia, and the commonest bird of prey across most of that range.

The common kingfisher is a small blue and orange bird of clear, slow rivers across Europe, Asia and North Africa.

The common nightingale is a small brown songbird of dense scrub in Europe and western Asia.

The common swift is a blackish-brown bird with narrow curved wings that catches every meal in the air.

The Egyptian goose is a pale brown waterbird of African rivers, lakes and grassland, marked by a dark ring around each eye.

The Eurasian blue tit is a small blue and yellow songbird of European woods, parks and gardens.

The Eurasian collared dove is a pale grey dove with a black half-collar on the neck.

The Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the largest owls in the world, with orange eyes and long ear tufts.

The Eurasian jay is a pinkish-brown crow with a bright blue panel on each wing.

The Eurasian magpie is a long-tailed crow of temperate Eurasia, black and white with a green and violet sheen.

The Eurasian sparrowhawk is a small hawk that hunts other birds by ambush.

The European badger is a stocky, striped-faced mustelid that lives in family clans across Europe and western Asia.

The European polecat is a dark, stocky mustelid with a pale face mask that hunts frogs, voles and rabbits by night.

The European robin is a small orange breasted songbird of European woods, parks and gardens.

The false killer whale is a large black dolphin of warm, deep seas that hunts tuna and squid in pods bound by lifelong ties.

The fin whale is the second longest animal alive and one of the fastest of the great whales.

The golden eagle is a large dark brown raptor of open country across the Northern Hemisphere.

The gray wolf is the largest wild member of the dog family and the ancestor of every domestic dog.

The great tit is the largest European tit, with a black head, white cheeks and a yellow breast.

The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread flamingo.

The grey heron is a tall grey and white wading bird of European, Asian and African wetlands.

The house mouse is a small grey-brown rodent that lives in and around human buildings on every inhabited continent.

The house sparrow is a small brown and grey bird that lives beside people almost everywhere on earth.

The Iberian lynx is a spotted, tufted-eared cat found only in Spain and Portugal.

The Indian peafowl is the large ground bird of India and Sri Lanka, and it is India's national bird.

The least weasel is the smallest carnivore in the world, a tube-shaped hunter that follows voles and mice down their own tunnels.

The long-tailed tit is a tiny black, white and pink bird with a tail longer than its body.

The mallard is the green-headed dabbling duck of ponds, rivers and city parks across the northern world.

The mandarin duck is a small perching duck of East Asian woodland rivers.

The Muscovy duck is a large tree-perching duck of tropical America, black with white wing patches and a bare red face.

The ortolan bunting is a small seed-eating songbird that breeds across Europe and West Asia and winters in Africa.

The osprey is a large brown and white raptor that lives on fish and hunts by plunging feet first into water.

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.

The razorbill is a black and white North Atlantic auk with a deep, blade-like bill.

The red deer is one of the largest deer, found across Europe, western Asia and the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.

The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

The red squirrel is a small tree squirrel of the conifer and broadleaf forests of Europe and northern Asia.

The rock dove is the wild pigeon of sea cliffs and rocky gorges in Europe, North Africa and southern Asia.

The roe deer is the smallest and most common deer in Europe, red in summer and grey in winter.

The rose-ringed parakeet is a slim green parrot with a red bill and a very long tail.

The sperm whale is the biggest of the toothed whales and the largest predator with teeth.

The tawny owl is the common night owl of European woodland, with a round head, black eyes and no ear tufts.

The western honey bee lives in colonies of tens of thousands and turns nectar into honey.

The whale shark is the largest fish in the sea.

The white stork is a large white bird with black wings, a red bill and long red legs.

The wild boar is the wild pig of Europe, Asia and North Africa and the ancestor of the domestic pig.