This is a list of fauna of the Scottish Highlands .

Contents

• Mammals
• Birds
• Reptiles
• Amphibians
• Fish
• Insects
• Beetles
• Bees
• Butterflies and moths
• Dragonflies
• Other
• Sources
• See also

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Mammals

• European beaver (reintroduced)
• European badger
• European otter
• Field vole
• British primitive goat
• Eurasian wolf (extinct)
• American mink (invasive)
• Moose (reintroduced)
• Mountain hare
• Pine marten
• Red deer
• Red fox
• Red squirrel
• Reindeer (reintroduced)
• Roe deer
• Scottish wildcat
• Sheep
• Stoat
• European 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
• Red kite (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

• Common frog
• Palmate newt

Fish

• Charr
• Salmon
• Trout

Insects

Sources

• Kempe and Wrightham, Hostile Habitats: Scotland's Mountain Environment Scottish Mountaineering Trust 2006, ISBN   0-907521-93-2

See also

• Fauna of Scotland

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)