Vitrealis - A Wildlife Blog

Pinnated Bittern - Medio Queso Mention Costa Rica as a birding destination and you'll quickly start hearing about cloud forests like Mon...

  Britain doesn't have many lizards, so surely it's not difficult to work out which species is which? Wrong! I sometimes get confuse...

  Common Wall Lizard - Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, Dorset Most field guides will tell you that Britain has six native reptile species - ...

  White-throated Capuchin Monkey My last  blog  looked at the largest of Costa Rica's four primate species: the Mantled Howler and Centr...

  It is just after dawn on a road through the dry forest that flanks the Pacific Ocean. Breakfast has been postponed so that we can catch th...