List of fauna of the Scottish Highlands

This is a list of fauna of the Scottish Highlands.

Mammals Eurasian beaver (reintroduced) European badger Eurasian otter Short-tailed field vole British primitive goat Eurasian wolf (extinct) American mink (invasive) Moose (reintroduced) Mountain hare European pine marten Scottish red deer Red fox Red squirrel Mountain 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 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 Azure hawker dragonfly Four-spotted chaser dragonfly Golden-ringed dragonfly

Other Cranefly Deer ked Midge Sheep tick

Sources Kempe and Wrightham, Hostile Habitats: Scotland's Mountain Environment Scottish Mountaineering Trust 2006,

See also Fauna of Scotland