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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.
List of extinct animals of the British Isles – many species listed became extinct due to the retreat of Arctic conditions after the last Ice Age or due to man, many now surviving in the Arctic. List of extinct plants of the British Isles; Insular dwarfism; Insular gigantism; Fauna of Great Britain; Fauna of Ireland; Flora of Great Britain
This species is extinct across the whole of the British Isles. Adonis annua , pheasant's eye (extinct in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, survives in England) [ 1 ] Agrostemma githago , corncockle (died out in Ireland, reintroduced) persists in all countries of the United Kingdom [ 1 ]
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 European continent and beyond. There are about 250 species regularly recorded in Great Britain, and another 350 that occur with varying degrees of rarity.
Some suffer because of loss of habitat, but many are in decline following the introduction of foreign species, which out-compete the native species or carry disease. See also the list of extinct animals of the British Isles. This list includes the 116 species identified as requiring action plans in the Biodiversity Steering Group's report of ...
This is a list of European species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] This list includes the European continent and its surrounding islands.
Pages in category "Extinct animals of Europe" ... List of extinct animals of the British Isles; Bromsgroveia; C. Calcancora; Chondrostoma scodrense; Coregonus bezola;
Pages in category "Lists of extinct animals by region" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... List of extinct animals of the British Isles; H.