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  2. List of extinct animals of the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    † - A species that is globally extinct * - A species that is known to have been introduced by humans and was never present by natural immigration. Some animals have gone extinct several times and then recolonized. The date given is of the most recent extinction. Species that have been introduced or reintroduced by humans are noted.

  3. Fauna of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    The species is otherwise extinct in Scotland and is also flightless, raising the question of how the colony arrived on the island. [156] The northern February red stonefly (Brachyptera putata) has recently lost its range elsewhere in Britain and is now it considered to be a Scottish endemic. [157] [158]

  4. List of European species extinct in the Holocene - Wikipedia

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    St Kilda, Scotland: A commensal species, it became extinct after the removal of all human inhabitants from the island in 1930. [16] Tyrrhenian field rat: Rhagamys orthodon: Corsica and Sardinia Most recent remains dated to 348 BCE - 283 CE. [9]

  5. Near-Extinct Scottish Wildcat Spotted with Litter of ... - AOL

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    The Scottish wildcat, a population of European wildcat found only in Scotland, is a critically endangered animal. But for one local conservation group, the Scottish Wildcat Haven, they are not ...

  6. St Kilda house mouse - Wikipedia

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    The St Kilda house mouse (Mus musculus muralis) is an extinct subspecies of the house mouse found only on the islands of the St Kilda archipelago of northwest Scotland. [1] They were first described, alongside the St Kilda field mouse, by natural historian Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton in 1899.

  7. List of endemic species of the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, a newly formed and endemic species of monkeyflower (Erythranthe peregrina) was identified in Scotland and the Scottish islands. [7] Bromus interruptus is an endemic to England, which was extinct in the wild but has been reintroduced from saved seed.

  8. Caledonian Forest - Wikipedia

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    Scottish wood ant: A mound building species in the Formica genus that is almost exclusively found near and inside Caledonian pine forests, as they primarily feed on honeydew that they collect from various scale insects living on the Scots pines found in the forest. [9] Mammal species extinct in Caledonian pine forests: Aurochs; Brown bear ...

  9. Wild cattle could be introduced in Scotland in bid to ... - AOL

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    Tauros have been bred to be genetically similar to the ancient aurochs, which became extinct 400 years ago. Wild cattle could be introduced in Scotland in bid to resurrect extinct species Skip to ...