Camera Trap Highlights: Episode 1
Here are some of the early highlights from our camera traps. It is safe to say it is busy with life in Podișul Hârtibaciului. Stay tuned for the next episodes…there are more surprises!
The Martens
The pine marten and the stone marten are two very similar species, both existing in our region. They are secretive, nocturnal and largely arboreal, meaning they are rarely seen despite the fact that some...
Camera traps
Have you wondered how we get all the footage of the animals in our videos? The secret is camera traps, remote devices setup to detect animals which pass in front of it, using motion...
The Red Deer
Red Deer are important shapers of the landscape, from lowland valleys to open alpine moorland. By grazing grasses and young trees, they ensure a healthy structure to both the woodland and grassland. In autumn,...
Bird diversity
Podisul Hartibaciului is protected primarily for its extraordinary bird diversity, and high abundance of particularly important bird species. The lesser-spotted eagle thrives thanks to the agricultural mosaic mixed with the presence of extensive, mature...
The Badger
The badger is an intriguing combination of cute and ferocious. Although a common and unmistakable animal, widely distributed throughout Europe, its nocturnal habits mean it is rarely seen. They are an incredibly social animal,...
Meadow inhabitants
A flower meadow is a beautiful site, even from a distance. But as you zoom in and get closer and closer, until you are finally immersed in the flowers, that beauty only becomes more...
Soil disturbance
It might be rather annoying when a mole decides to leave one of their hills in the middle of your carrot bed. Or a wild boar leaves his digging marks in your hay meadow,...
The Jackal
Over the last 70 years, the jackal has been expanding its range northwards and westwards across Europe. This natural colonisation is thought to be a result of climate change and due to landscape changes...
The Wildcat
Once widespread across the whole of Europe, persecution and habitat loss over the last centuries has led to severely fragmented and declined populations. Thankfully it seems they are spreading again and numbers are increasing....
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