Moufflons, Golden Eagles and other Fauna
On 06/08/2008
The Ogliastrian mountains are rich of wild fauna and the emblem of them is the moufflon, perfectly suited for these environments, as well as the Golden eagle, the Sardinian buck and the fallow deer.
Numerous wild boars, hares and wild cats, the marten, the weasel, the badger.
The griffon, the monk vulture and the ‘gipeto’ used to live here, but of these only the griffon has survived, about a hundred samples, the only ones remained at the natural state on the whole Italian territory. The more important faunistic aspect of the coasts is represented by the sea birds: the ‘marangone dal ciuffo’ forms colonies of hundreds of birds. There are also the Corse gull, one of the rarest birds of the world, exclusive of the Mediterranean, the ‘sterne’, the ‘fraticelli’ and the’cavalieri d’Italia’, also the ‘procellaries’ nest here in thousands.