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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
List of extinct animals of the British Isles; H. ... List of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene; S. List of Saint Helena, Ascension ...
The Alderney is an extinct breed of dairy cattle. It originated in, and is named for, the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. [1]: 103 [2]: 139 It was one of three breeds of Channel Island cattle, the others being the Jersey and the Guernsey. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries "Alderney" was a general term for cattle from the ...
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 December 1995. Mammals
The extinct Beothuks of Newfoundland made pudding out of the eggs of the great auk. [20]: 313 The Dorset Eskimos also hunted it. The Saqqaq in Greenland overhunted the species, causing a local reduction in range. [51] The only known illustration of a great auk drawn from life, Ole Worm's pet, received from the Faroe Islands, 1655
List of Macaronesian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of European species extinct in the Holocene. List of extinct animals of the British Isles; List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene
As an island, it has fewer breeding species than continental Europe. Some species, like the crested lark , breed as close as northern France , but have not colonised Britain. 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 ...