page_title: Parco naturale delle Capanne di Marcarolo
section_title: Wildlife
hierarchical_section_title: Parco naturale delle Capanne di Marcarolo / Wildlife
caption_attribution_description: Aguila Culebrera Circaetus gallicus. Punta Carnero, Andalusia, Spain.
context_page_description: The Capanne di Marcarolo Natural Regional Park is a natural park in the province of Alessandria. It gets the name from a small village in the protected area, Capanne di Marcarolo.
context_section_description: Among animals is to be highlighted a wide reptiles' and amphibia's biodiversity: in the park have been found eight different species of snakes and in the obscurity of the old mines dwells the endemic Speleomantes strinatii, at first considered a subspecies of the Italian cave salamander and now a self-standing species.
  In the streams lives not only the brown trout but also the endangered white-clawed crayfish, observed in Lemme Valley. Park's forests offer a suitable habitat to wild boars, foxes, badgers, fat dormouses, bats, roe deers, fallow deers, European hedgehogs, beech martens and hares.
  Located on a crowded migratory route the park offers nesting places to many bird species. Among birds of prey must be noted the short-toed snake eagle (in Italian Biancone), a species very endangered in Italy which was chosen as the symbol of the park. Many common buzzards' couples also nest in the protected area.
caption: Short-toed snake eagle, the park symbol
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