List of fauna of the Scottish Highlands
This is a list of fauna of the Scottish Highlands.
Mammals
- European beaver (reintroduced)
- Badger
- European otter
- Field vole
- Goat
- Gray wolf (extinct)
- Mink (invasive)
- Moose (reintroduced)
- Mountain hare
- Pine marten
- Red deer
- Red fox
- Red squirrel
- Reindeer (reintroduced)
- Roe deer
- Scottish wildcat
- Sheep
- Stoat
- Water vole
- Scottish highland cattle
Birds
- Black grouse
- Black-throated diver
- Buzzard
- Capercaille
- Common gull
- Common sandpiper
- Cuckoo
- Curlew
- Dipper
- Dotterel
- Dunlin
- Golden eagle
- Greenshank
- Greylag goose
- Hen harrier
- Hooded crow
- Meadow pipit
- Merlin
- Osprey
- Peregrine falcon
- Ptarmigan
- Raven
- Red grouse
- Red kite (reintroduced)
- Red-throated diver
- Ring ouzel
- Scottish crossbill — endemic
- Snipe
- Snow bunting
- Stonechat
- Wheatear
- White-tailed eagle
Reptiles
Amphibians
Fish
Insects
Beetles
Bees
Butterflies and moths
- Large heath butterfly
- Mountain ringlet butterfly
- Scotch argus butterfly
- Black mountain moth
- Emperor moth
- Fox moth
- Magpie moth
- Mountain burnet moth
- Northern dart moth
- Northern eggar moth
Dragonflies
Other
Sources
Kempe and Wrightham, Hostile Habitats: Scotland's Mountain Environment Scottish Mountaineering Trust 2006, ISBN 0-907521-93-2
See also
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