Mammal Maps

Portugal Wildlife

European Distribution Maps (Using 50x50km Grid Squares) for Mammals found on Wildlife Reserve in Baixo Alentejo

Western Hedgehog

Greater White-toothed Shrew

Iberian Mole

Kuhl's Pipistrelle

Common Pipistrelle

Soprano Pipistrelle

The Soprano Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) is a small bat that in taxonomy was only formally separated from the common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in 1999.
The two species were first distinguished on the basis of their different frequency echolocation calls. The common pipistrelle uses a call of 45 kHz, while the soprano pipistrelle echolocates at 55 kHz. The two species are sometimes called the 45 kHz pipistrelle and the 55 kHz pipistrelle, or the bandit pipistrelle(common) and the brown pipistrelle (soprano). Since the two species were split, a number of other differences, in appearance, habitat and food, have also been discovered. As yet there is no distribution Map for the distribution of the Soprano Pipistrelle.

Iberian Hare