Fauna of Menorca

The world terrestrial animal composes small mammals (martas, ferrets, weasels, rabbits, bats, some varieties of rate of field and sprocket wheels), reptiles (the Mediterranean turtle, small lizards, and some nonpoisonous small serpent) and insects.
   

The species that live more are the birds. Besides the native ones, in summer many species arrive from the Sahara, like the wanderers, billhooks, airplanes, bee-eaters… 
In this sense the Lagoon DES Grau is very important, that also receives the visit of many migratory birds that arrive at the island to raise. We see you add real, coots, rascones, carriceros, storks, zampullines, garcetas, we corrected, porrones, stone curlews… Also are predatory and the rotten ones like the fishing eagle, the worn eagle, hawks, kestrels, mousy, sparrowhawks, egyptian vultures and eaglets, autillos and lechuzas. It is possible to emphasize the real Milan, a bird of great and protected prey that at the moment is in extinction danger.

The three more typical species of Menorca are:

1. The sargantanas are legend protagonists and songs and has more than 30 species. A peculiar species, the one that the island of the Air inhabits (in front of the beach Prime End, in the municipality of San Luis), totally black and protected species. When disembarking in the island they go to the border in numerous groups and they are not scared of people.
2. The red cows although are part of the landscape, is difficult to get to see a unit. They emphasize by his size and reddish skin. Its milk production causes that they begin to prosper the attempts to recover them.
3. The horses are the preferred domestic animal in Menorca, since the man, in perfect harmony with the landscape, has known to as much conjugate perfectly the paper of the horse doing it protagonist of the farming activities, like of their participation in the popular celebrations.
       This native race surprises by its corpulencia and the characteristic black jet in its layer, besides its incredible serenity before the commotion of the celebration, maintaining the calm happens what happens. 
       The Minorcan horse was recognized officially like native race in 1989. It must be totally black, slim, of round eyes and glance alive, muscular and powerful, of long extremities, noble character, beautiful elegant, energetic and powerful bearing. 
       The Association of Criadores and Propietarios de Caballos de Raza Menorquina works to genetically improve this race so appreciated in European criadores, mainly Catalan, Italian Germans and.
       The race, according to the last studies, is of berberisco origin, and is of the few totally black horses that conserve themselves in Europe.