Insectivore
Species specialised in insects and other small invertebrates.
What it means
Insects are the most abundant food on the planet by sheer number, but they come in tiny portions and many are protected by armour or by chemical defences. Their consumers answer with long sticky tongues, digging claws, ultra-fine hearing or echolocation, and with an almost continuous rhythm of meals. It is a diet central to the balance of ecosystems and to agriculture, and also the one most exposed to the general decline in insect populations.
Species
Jackson’s Three-horned Chameleon
Trioceros jacksonii
North Island Brown Kiwi
Apteryx mantelli
Least ConcernGreater Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Aardwolf
Proteles cristata
Common Nightingale
Luscinia megarhynchos
Least ConcernMidwife Toad
Alytes obstetricans
VulnerableSloth Bear
Melursus ursinus
Sunda Pangolin
Manis javanica
Veiled Chameleon
Chamaeleo calyptratus
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rustica
Dyeing Poison Frog
Dendrobates tinctorius
Least ConcernCommon Flying Dragon
Draco volans
Texas Horned Lizard
Phrynosoma cornutum
Green Anole
Anolis carolinensis
Eurasian Scops Owl
Otus scops
Critically EndangeredChinese Pangolin
Manis pentadactyla
Aardvark
Orycteropus afer
Least ConcernNine-banded Armadillo
Dasypus novemcinctus
European Green Woodpecker
Picus viridis
Spanish Wall Lizard
Podarcis hispanicus
Natterjack Toad
Epidalea calamita
Common House Gecko
Tarentola mauritanica
Bedriaga's Skink
Chalcides bedriagai
Iberian Painted Frog
Discoglossus galganoi
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