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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.
Shrews are also fairly common, and the smallest, the pygmy shrew, is one of the smallest mammals in the world. There are also seventeen species of bat found in Britain: the pipistrelle is the smallest and the most common. Rodents are also numerous across Britain, particularly the brown rat which is by far the most abundant urban mammal after ...
Alpine long-eared bat, Plecotus macrobullarisNT (mountains of southern Europe) Sardinian long-eared bat, Plecotus sardusCR (Sardinia) Canary long-eared bat, Plecotus teneriffaeCR (Canary Islands in Africa - Spain) and: [ n 1 ] Gaisler's long-eared bat, Plecotus gaisleri[ 2 ]EN (Malta, Italy) Barbastelle, Barbastella barbastellusVU.
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S. Sitobion avenae. Smooth snake. Synopses of the British Fauna. Categories: Biota of the United Kingdom. Fauna of Europe by country. Fauna by country. Palearctic fauna.
Pages in category "Lists of mammals of the United Kingdom". List of mammals of Great Britain. Categories: Lists of mammals by country. Fauna of the United Kingdom. Lists of biota of the United Kingdom.
Primula scotica, endemic to the north of Scotland and Orkney. In 1999, 47 species of flowering plants (430 including microspecies [ 4 ]) were considered to be endemic to the British Isles, 32 of them in the "critical genera" Euphrasia, Limonium and Sorbus. [ 5 ] Further additions are made from time to time, as cited below.
The fauna of England is similar to that of other areas British Isles [ 1 ] and lies within the Palearctic realm. 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 ...