Hi, my name
is A G B 9
I´m going to
tell you about The Caldera de Taburiente Natural Park.
It´s situated
in the Canary Islands.
It has got a
very big mountain.
In
the Flora the spice that dominates and shapes the landscape is the Canary Island pine. We also
can find other jaras where grows the batatilla or
vaquita, a practically buried parasitic plant. Inside the gullies where moisture is more abundant forest residues found
like the acebiño (Ilex
canariensis), parrot or laurel (Laurus
azorica) barbusano (Apollonias canariensis), Madeira mahogany (Persea indica) or
marmolán.
Most of the park's Wildlife is represented by arthropods,
mainly insects. There are a lot of centipedes, reaching a size of nearly
a foot in length, and the wolf spider. At an altitude of 2000 m there is a cave
where an endemic cave beetle Palma, has the peculiarity that has lost eyes and
pigmentation lives.
The vertebrate Fauna is scarce and most are introduced species except
bats, some amphibians and reptiles.
The main mammals are the Barbary sheep, goats, rabbits, which are a
serious threat to native plants, some feral cats and four species of bats as
the tailed bat (European free-tailed bat).
We can find a lot of birds as the kestrel (Falco tinnunculus canariensis), the
rock dove (Columba livia canariensis), the laurel pigeon (Columba junionae),
the farm or chough (Graja), the raven (Corvus corax tingitanus), blackbird (
Turdus merula agnetae), titmice (Parus caeruleus palmensis) or the blackcap
(Sylvia atricapilla atricapilla).
Among the amphibians we can find the southern frog (Hyla meridionalis).
There are also reptiles as the Canary Island wall gecko gecko of
Delalande or (d Tarentola delalandii.) Or lizard (Gallotia galloti palmae).
