List of fauna of the Scottish Highlands
This is a list of fauna of the Scottish Highlands.
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Mammals
- reintroduced)
- Badger
- European otter
- Field vole
- Goat
- extinct)
- Mink (invasive)
- reintroduced)
- Mountain hare
- Pine marten
- Red deer
- Red fox
- Red squirrel
- reintroduced)
- Roe deer
- Scottish wildcat
- Sheep
- Stoat
- Water vole
- Scottish highland cattle
Birds
- Black grouse
- Black-throated diver
- Common buzzard
- Western capercaillie
- Common gull
- Common sandpiper
- Common cuckoo
- Eurasian curlew
- White-throated dipper
- Eurasian dotterel
- Dunlin
- Golden eagle
- Great skua
- Common greenshank
- Greylag goose
- Hen harrier
- Hooded crow
- Meadow pipit
- Merlin
- Osprey
- Peregrine falcon
- Ptarmigan
- Common raven
- Red grouse
- reintroduced)
- Red-throated diver
- Ring ouzel
- Scottish crossbill — endemic
- Common snipe
- Snow bunting
- European stonechat
- Northern wheatear
- White-tailed eagle
Reptiles
- Adder
- Viviparous lizard
Amphibians
Fish
Insects
Beetles
- Green tiger beetle
- Ground beetle
Bees
- Bilberry bumblebee
- Heath bumblebee
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
- Cranefly
- Deer ked
- Midge
- Sheep tick
Sources
- Kempe and Wrightham, Hostile Habitats: Scotland's Mountain Environment Scottish Mountaineering Trust 2006, ISBN 0-907521-93-2
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