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Six species of deer are living wild in Great Britain: [1] Scottish red deer, roe deer, fallow deer, sika deer, Reeves's muntjac, and Chinese water deer. [2] Of those, Scottish red and roe deer are native and have lived in the isles throughout the Holocene. Fallow deer have been reintroduced twice, by the Romans and the Normans, after dying out ...
The Scottish red deer (Cervus elaphus scoticus) is a subspecies of red deer, [1] which is native to Great Britain. Like the red deer of Ireland, it migrated from continental Europe sometime in the Stone Age. The Scottish red deer is farmed for meat, antlers and hides. [2] [3]
Red deer stag and hinds. Family: Suidae (pigs) Wild boar, Sus scrofa LC reintroduced [62] Family: Cervidae (deer) Roe deer, Capreolus capreolus LC [63] Siberian roe deer, Capreolus pygargus LC, [64] introduced, extirpated [65] [66] Red deer, Cervus elaphus LC [67] Scottish red deer, C. e. scoticus; Sika deer, Cervus nippon LC introduced [68]
Highlights among the finds include Britain's oldest structure, 21 red deer stag skull-caps that may have been headdresses and nearly 200 projectile, or harpoon, points made of red deer antler. These organic materials were preserved due to having been buried in waterlogged peat. Normally all that remains on Mesolithic sites are stone tools.
A census of deer populations in 2007 and again in 2011 coordinated by the British Deer Society records the red deer as having continued to expand their range in England and Wales since 2000, [20] with expansion most notable in the Midlands and East Anglia.
Bolt action rifles are used for deer stalking. This may take on moors, or in woodland. Deer hunted in the UK are red deer, roe deer, fallow deer, sika deer, muntjac, water deer, and hybrids of these deers. [14] Only certain 'quarry' species of wildfowl may legally be shot in the UK, and are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
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Mannies, Stags, Deer Botherers, Scabs - offensive, linked to the divisions during the UK miners' strike (1984–1985) [64] Malmesbury Jackdaws, Smarmies, Marmites Malton, North Yorkshire Maltesers March Slow Marchers (pejorative) Margate Maggots (pejorative), Dee-effells (acronym, "Down From London", refers to relocators) Market Drayton