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England's fauna is mainly made up of small animals and is notable for having few large mammals, but in similarity with other island nations; many bird species. England for the most part has an oceanic climate , which lacks extremes of heat or cold and provides plentiful rainfall making the country a rather 'green' environment and providing much ...
This is a list of mammals of Great Britain. The diversity of mammal fauna of Great Britain is somewhat impoverished compared to that of Continental Europe , due to the short period of time between the last ice age and the flooding of the land bridge between Great Britain and the rest of Europe.
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). Most of the remainder survive to some extent outside the islands.
An art commune is a communal living situation colony where collective art is produced as a function of the group's activities. Contemporary art communes are scattered around the world, yet frequently aloof to widespread attention due to displeasure or discomfort with mainstream society.
The red deer is the largest native mammal species, and is common throughout England, Scotland and Wales. The other indigenous species is the roe deer . The common fallow deer was not naturally present Britain during the Holocene, having been brought over from France by the Normans in the late 11th century.
The list below comprises all those bird species which have occurred in a wild state in Great Britain. Escaped birds of certain species, e.g. ruddy shelduck, can cause confusion amongst birdwatchers as they occasionally occur in Britain as wild birds. The following species have established colonies in the UK at some point in time.
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Animals, such as humans and rodents, form breeding or nesting colonies, potentially for more successful mating and to better protect offspring. The Bracken Cave is the summer home to a colony of around 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats , making it the largest known concentration of mammals.