Pack Idea - Caucasus Wildlife

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Caucasus banded newt, (Northern banded newt) * / Ommatotriton ophryticus; (Syn .: Triturus vittatus ophryticus) * - NT
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Caucasian common toad, (Colchian Common Toad) ** / Bufo verrucosissimus ** - NT
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Caucasus Halysotter * / Gloydius halys caucasicus; (Syn .: Agkistrodon halys caucasicus) *
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Caucasian lynx * / Lynx lynx dinniki *
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Caucasian reed cat * / Felis chaus chaus *
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Caucasian dwarf zebu, (Azerbaijan Zebu) / Bos primigenius f. Taurus
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Black grouse ** / Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi; (Syn .: Tetrao mlokosiewiczi) ** - NT
Occurrence: alpine zone of the Great and Lesser Caucasus
Habitat: mountain forests and alpine meadows at altitudes between 1500 and 3000 m
Tail length: 14.4 - 22.3 cm
Total length: 38 - 52 cm
Weight: 766 - 1005 g
Food: Buds of some plants, berries, seeds, fruit bunches, flowers, pine needles, insects
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Caucasian otter * / Vipera kaznakovi; (Syn .: Pelias kaznakovi) * - EN
Occurrence: western Caucasus from S-Russia to NE-Turkey
Habitat: forest edges, tea plantations, in dense ferns, moist meadows
Total length: 60 - 70 cm
Diet: rodents, lizards, grasshoppers and crickets
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Caucasian salamander * / Mertensiella caucasica * - VU
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Western giant redstart, (Caucasus giant redstart) ** / Phoenicurus erythrogastrus erythrogastrus **
Occurrence: Caucasus; Winter visitor in the Transcaucasus region and Iran
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A few more mentions here :)
Caucasus chamois ** / Rupicapra rupicapra caucasica; (Syn .: Rupicapra asiatica caucasica) ** - VU
Occurrence: Caucasus
Habitat: mountains

Caucasus maral * / Cervus elaphus maral *
Occurrence: Caucasus, Anatolia

Eastern European grass snake, (Balkan grass snake), (Caucasus grass snake) ** / Natrix natrix persa *
Occurrence: from Bulgaria through Greece, Asia Minor to Syria and northern Iran
Habitat: reed-covered and herbaceous banks of standing or slowly flowing water of all kinds, mountain slopes, forest edges, moors, vineyards, light secondary forests
Total length: 80-150 cm
Food: frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, fish, lizards, small mammals

Talysh wood mouse, (Caucasus wood mouse) ** / Apodemus hyrcanicus ** - NT
Occurrence: Southwest Asia (SE Azerbaijan and N Iran along the coast of the Caspian Sea)
Head-torso length: 9.5-10.5 cm
Tail length: 9.4-10.7 cm
Weight: 22 - 35 g
Diet: roots, seeds, berries, nuts, insects

Caucasian Goldfinch, (Caucasian Goldfinch) * / Carduelis carduelis colchica *
Occurrence: N-Caucasus, Crimean region
 
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