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  2. List of mammals of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Only those land species which crossed before the creation of the English Channel and those introduced by humans exist in Great Britain. Native (usually synonymous with "indigenous") species are considered to be species which are today present in the region in question, and have been continuously present in that region since a certain period of ...

  3. Fauna of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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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.

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

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    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.

  5. List of introduced species - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-exhaustive list of some of the more significant plant species Nymphaea odorata – American waterlily in California from native parts of North America [444] Ailanthus altissima – tree-of-heaven from eastern Asia [445] Falcataria moluccana-Batai wood [446] Prunus cerasus – dwarf cherry from Eurasia [447]

  6. Introduced species of the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    The grey squirrel is an introduced species in Great Britain, where it threatens the country's native red squirrel population. Islands, such as the British Isles, can be adversely affected by the introduction of non-native species. Often an island will have several distinct species not present on the nearest mainland, and vice versa.

  7. Fauna of England - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of trees of Great Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The only endemic tree species in Britain and Ireland (that is, that are native only to this region) are some apomictic whitebeams. Species that were native in the region in prehistory before the last ice age, but not subsequently, are generally regarded as extinct and no longer native.

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

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    Great Britain was cut off from mainland Europe in around 8,200 BP by the Storegga Slide tsunami flooding Doggerland. [3] Extinctions in Britain over the period have thus had three main causes: Climate change as the ecosystem swung from temperate woodland and pasture, through open mammoth steppe to uninhabitable polar desert, and back.