The land still intact and the beautiful climate make of the Pigelleto Nature Reserve the ideal place to watch intersting animals including mamels, raptors, insects and reptiles.
The Reserve is full of cool streams where you will find amphibians such Italian stream frogs (rana italica), and cane toads (Bufo bufo). But the rarest amphibian is the Spectacled Salamander (salamandrina terdigidata): an undargered species in Italy and in Europe.
The most common reptiles are colubers (coluber virdiflavus) and vipers (Vipera aspis).
Birds include jays (garrulus glandarius), wood pigeons (columba palumbus), goldcrests (regolus regolus), blue tits (Parus Caeruleus), great tits (Parus major), robins (erithacus rubecula), wrens (Troglodytes troglodytes), blackbirds (Turdus merula) and blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla).
Among the many raptors there are buzzards (Buteo buteo), honey buzzards (Pernis apivorus) sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus), harrier eagles (Circaetus gallicus) and goshawks (Accipiter gentilis).
Hollow trees are the perfect place for tawny oaks (Strix aluco), which is very common in the reserve whereas ruins and abandoned farm houses are the nesting place of barn owls (Tyto alba), and owls (Athene noctua).
The woods also host many species of woodpeckers such as the green woodpecker (Picus viridis), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Picoides major) and whynecks (Jynx torquilla).
The most common mamels are roe deers (Capreolus capreolus) and wild boars (Sus scrofa).
You will also be able to find footprints and other traces of stone martens (Martes foina), porcupines (Hystrix cristata), foxes (Vulpes vulpes), badgers (Meles meles) and dormouses.

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