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This is a list of extinct animals of the British Isles, including extirpated species. Only a small number of the listed species are globally extinct (most famously the Irish elk , great auk and woolly mammoth ).
List of extinct animals of the British Isles – many species listed became extinct due to the retreat of Arctic conditions after the last Ice Age or due to man, many now surviving in the Arctic. List of extinct plants of the British Isles; Insular dwarfism; Insular gigantism; Fauna of Great Britain; Fauna of Ireland; Flora of Great Britain
The mild winters mean that many species that cannot cope with harsher conditions can winter in Britain, and also that there is a large influx of wintering birds from the European continent and beyond. There are about 250 species regularly recorded in Great Britain, and another 350 that occur with varying degrees of rarity.
Most recent remains dated to 9650 BCE in the Ponto-Caspian region, 9550 BCE in Boreal Europe, 9450 BCE in the British Isles, 8850 BCE in Northwestern Germany, 8750 BCE in northern Central Europe, 6050 BCE [2] in the Carpathian Basin, the Middle Holocene in the Middle Urals, [13] and 1220 BCE in the Southern Urals. [2]
Extinct: No reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW: Extinct in the wild: Known only to survive in captivity or as a naturalised population well outside its previous range. CR: Critically endangered: The species is in imminent risk of extinction in the wild. EN: Endangered: The species is facing an extremely high risk of ...
Unlike other British animals, wolves were unaffected by island dwarfism, [2] with certain skeletal remains indicating that they may have grown as large as Arctic wolves. [3] The species was progressively exterminated from Britain through a combination of deforestation and active hunting through bounty systems.
This is a list of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species. Some suffer because of loss of habitat, but many are in decline following the introduction of foreign species, which out-compete the native species or carry disease. See also the list of extinct animals of the British Isles.
Pages in category "Extinct animals of Europe" ... List of extinct animals of the British Isles; Bromsgroveia; C. Calcancora; Chondrostoma scodrense; Coregonus bezola;