Fauna of the mountain of Sintra

The mountain of Sintra, which is the most occidental point of Europe, is also the limit of the zoological Mediterranean sub-region.
In this region you can emphasise the most important species in the birds group: the robbery birds, such as: the pilgrim falcon; the sparrow hawk; goshawk; the agle owl; barn owl; tawny owl; the Bonelli-eagle and some winter sea birds.
These last mentioned pass the most part of their life cycle in the sea, coming to shore to reproduce along all the coast of Sintra (e.g.: cormorant; the shag; the red-throated loon and the Manx shearwater).   
The red-legged partridge, the crow, the jay and the wood pigeon, the little bustard and the starling are some of the species that raises hunting interest in this region.
All along the Natural Park of Sintra- Cascais you can see mammals like the mole; the weasel; the fox; and the hedgehog, among others; and also a great variety of reptiles and amphibians, such as:  bosca’s newt, the mid-wife toad, the Schreiber’s green lizard, the fire salamander, the marbled newt, the Lataste’s viper, pond terrapin, Chalcides chalcides, blind snake, the ladder snake.
The primitive forest has been being destroyed due to agriculture and to taming and also due to pasture without any kind of control. Without it other wild big-sized animals disappear, when times ago they used to be quite abundant, but also target of great hunting.
The exaggerated urbanisation risks the existence of certain species, once this region is daily menaced by the constant industrial and touristic development.