- Source: List of fauna of the Scottish Highlands
This is a list of fauna of the Scottish Highlands.
Mammals
European beaver (reintroduced)
Badger
European otter
Field vole
Goat
Gray wolf (extinct)
Mink (invasive)
Moose (reintroduced)
Mountain hare
Pine marten
Red deer
Red fox
Red squirrel
Reindeer (reintroduced)
Roe deer
Scottish wildcat
Sheep
Stoat
Water vole
Scottish highland cattle
Birds
Black grouse
Black-throated diver
Common buzzard
Western capercaillie
Common gull
Common sandpiper
Common cuckoo
Eurasian curlew
White-throated dipper
Eurasian dotterel
Dunlin
Golden eagle
Great skua
Common greenshank
Greylag goose
Hen harrier
Hooded crow
Meadow pipit
Merlin
Osprey
Peregrine falcon
Ptarmigan
Common raven
Red grouse
Red kite (reintroduced)
Red-throated diver
Ring ouzel
Scottish crossbill — endemic
Common snipe
Snow bunting
European stonechat
Northern wheatear
White-tailed eagle
Reptiles
Adder
Viviparous lizard
Amphibians
Common frog
Palmate newt
Fish
Charr
Salmon
Trout
Insects
= Beetles
=Green tiger beetle
Ground beetle
= Bees
=Bilberry bumblebee
Heath bumblebee
= Butterflies and moths
=Large heath butterfly
Mountain ringlet butterfly
Scotch argus butterfly
Black mountain moth
Emperor moth
Fox moth
Magpie moth
Mountain burnet moth
Northern dart moth
Northern eggar moth
= Dragonflies
=Azure hawker dragonfly
Four-spotted chaser dragonfly
Golden-ringed dragonfly
= Other
=Cranefly
Deer ked
Midge
Sheep tick
Sources
Kempe and Wrightham, Hostile Habitats: Scotland's Mountain Environment Scottish Mountaineering Trust 2006, ISBN 0-907521-93-2
See also
Fauna of Scotland