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This insectivore measures up to 14 cm in length and is not easily spotted because it hides in forests and shrublands. Endemic to Cape Verde, it is found on the islands of São Nicolau, Santiago and Fogo, and perhaps on Brava, although ...
Without a doubt, this is Cape Verde’s most colourful and striking bird, and a symbol of the islands. It is 22 cm long and lives in Santiago, Fogo and Brava, where it is locally common and widely distributed, especially in woodland and ...
A pelagic seabird, up to 40 cm long, native to Cape Verde and similar to Cory’s Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea), albeit considerably smaller and with a thinner, darker bill. The main colonies are found on the islets of Branco and ...
This slender heron, up to 80 cm long, is distinguished from the purple heron (Ardea purpurea purpurea) by paler plumage, which is less reddish-brown. Endemic to Cape Verde, it is found exclusively on Santiago, where there are two small ...
This swift measures up to 15 cm long and is very similar to the plain swift (Apus unicolor)—typical of Madeira, the Canaries and possibly North West Africa—but is smaller with lighter-coloured underparts. Its voice is also very ...
Shrub or tree up to 15 m, evergreen, bark grey and smooth. Leaves are large, narrowly lanceolate, up to 20 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, dark green and clustered at the tip of the branches. Inflorescences are terminal and not very striking. ...
Evergreen tree, small, up to 10-12 m tall. Leaves are ovate, small and clearly serrate on the margins, shiny green, with several glands (like tiny protuberances) along the midrib. Flowers are small, yellowy-green; fruits are globose, deep ...
Evergreen tree that grows to a good size, up to 20 m, with a dense, broadly pyramid-shaped crown. The trunk has tiny semi-spherical protuberances or lenticels, which are characteristic of several laurel species, and is ash-grey or ...
Herb, rather robust and downy, which grows up to 1 m. Basal leaves are subcoriaceous, orbicular, heart-shaped to reniform, generally large (up to 30 cm long), while the upper ones are smaller, lanceolate and entire. Flowers are brilliant ...
Herbaceous perennial, leaves succulent, pinnate or incised-dentate, with a tendency to dry back in summer. Inflorescence is an umbel, with up to 15 pedicels and yellow flowers. Mature fruits are light brown. This halophyte is found ...
Dioecious, tree-like shrub or tree, up to 16-18 m, very rough bark when mature. Evergreen foliage, leaves oblanceolate, light green but growing darker with time, 4-12 cm long and revolute dentate margins. Greenish-yellow flowers, densely ...
Well-developed large tree, which can grow up to 25-30 m tall. Evergreen foliage, trunk evenly covered in lenticels (corky spots), particularly young specimens. Large leaves (the largest of all trees found in the evergreen forest, along ...
