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Like many temperate areas, Great Britain has few snake species: the European adder is the only venomous snake to be found there. The other notable snakes found in Great Britain are the barred grass snake and the smooth snake. Great Britain has three native species of lizard: slowworms, sand lizards and viviparous lizards.
a species that colonised the islands during the glacial retreat at the end of the last ice age (c. 9500 years ago); a species that was present when the English Channel was created (c. 8000 years ago); or, a species that was present in prehistory. This list includes mammals from the small islands around Great Britain and the Channel Islands.
Alternatively species can also be native when they have flown or swum to Britain as is the case with many bird species which arrived after the submersion of the land bridge, a recent example is the collared dove which arrived in the 1950s, this also applies for plants which spread seed in the wind.
The reptiles of Great Britain include three native snakes and three native lizards. A number of sea turtles visit Great Britain's shores. There are also at least seven introduced reptile species.
The species is facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. VU: Vulnerable: The species is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT: Near threatened: The species does not meet any of the criteria that would categorise it as risking extinction but it is likely to do so in the future. LC: Least concern
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 continent or beyond and even as far as South Africa. There are about 250 species regularly recorded in England, and another 300 that occur with varying degrees of rarity.
Azores noctule, Nyctalus azoreum VU (the only mammal species endemic to North Atlantic Azores archipelago - Portugal) Greater noctule, Nyctalus lasiopterus VU; Anatolian serotine, Eptesicus anatolicus [2] DD (east Aegean Islands in Greece, Cyprus) - split from Botta's serotine, Eptesicus bottae LC; Serotine, Eptesicus serotinus LC and: [n 1]
Gold-striped salamander, Chioglossa lusitanica VU (Spain and Portugal) Spectacled salamander, Salamandrina terdigitata LC and: [n 1] Salamandrina perspicillata LC (formerly in Salamandrina terdigitata, Italy) Iberian ribbed newt, Pleurodeles waltl NT (Iberian Peninsula, Morocco) Pyrenean brook salamander, Calotriton asper NT