🇩🇰 Animals of Denmark

The Atlantic salmon hatches in a river, grows up at sea, and returns to the same river to spawn.

The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

The brown rat is a large, burrowing rodent that lives wherever people live.

The common blackbird is a true thrush of Europe, North Africa and western Asia, and the male is glossy black with a yellow eye-ring.

The common buzzard is a broad-winged hawk of Europe and northern Asia, and the commonest bird of prey across most of that range.

The common kingfisher is a small blue and orange bird of clear, slow rivers across Europe, Asia and North Africa.

The common pheasant is a long-tailed gamebird from Asia that people have released across the world.

The common raccoon dog is a stocky, fox-like canid of East Asia with a black face mask like a raccoon's.

The common swift is a blackish-brown bird with narrow curved wings that catches every meal in the air.

The Eurasian blue tit is a small blue and yellow songbird of European woods, parks and gardens.

The Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the largest owls in the world, with orange eyes and long ear tufts.

The Eurasian jay is a pinkish-brown crow with a bright blue panel on each wing.

The Eurasian magpie is a long-tailed crow of temperate Eurasia, black and white with a green and violet sheen.

The Eurasian sparrowhawk is a small hawk that hunts other birds by ambush.

The European badger is a stocky, striped-faced mustelid that lives in family clans across Europe and western Asia.

The European bison, or wisent, is the heaviest wild animal on land in Europe.

The European pine marten is a cat-sized mustelid with a brown coat and a cream bib.

The European polecat is a dark, stocky mustelid with a pale face mask that hunts frogs, voles and rabbits by night.

The European robin is a small orange breasted songbird of European woods, parks and gardens.

The gray wolf is the largest wild member of the dog family and the ancestor of every domestic dog.

The great auk was a large flightless seabird of the North Atlantic that swam with its wings and caught fish under water.

The great tit is the largest European tit, with a black head, white cheeks and a yellow breast.

The grey heron is a tall grey and white wading bird of European, Asian and African wetlands.

The least weasel is the smallest carnivore in the world, a tube-shaped hunter that follows voles and mice down their own tunnels.

The long-tailed tit is a tiny black, white and pink bird with a tail longer than its body.

The mandarin duck is a small perching duck of East Asian woodland rivers.

The mute swan is a large white waterbird of lakes, rivers and sheltered coasts across Europe and Asia.

The razorbill is a black and white North Atlantic auk with a deep, blade-like bill.

The red deer is one of the largest deer, found across Europe, western Asia and the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.

The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

The red squirrel is a small tree squirrel of the conifer and broadleaf forests of Europe and northern Asia.

The roe deer is the smallest and most common deer in Europe, red in summer and grey in winter.

The rook is a large black crow of European and Asian farmland, known by the bare pale skin around the base of its bill.

The sperm whale is the biggest of the toothed whales and the largest predator with teeth.

The stoat is a small, long-bodied weasel of Europe, northern Asia and the Arctic edge of North America.

The tawny owl is the common night owl of European woodland, with a round head, black eyes and no ear tufts.

The white-tailed eagle is the largest bird of prey in Europe, a brown sea eagle with a short white wedge of a tail.