🇫🇮 Animals of Finland

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 bear is one of the two largest land carnivores, and it ranges across the forests and mountains of Eurasia and North America.

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 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 lynx is the biggest of the four lynx species and the largest wild cat in Europe.

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

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

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

The moose is the largest deer.

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

The ortolan bunting is a small seed-eating songbird that breeds across Europe and West Asia and winters in 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 reindeer, called the caribou in North America, is the deer of the Arctic tundra and the northern forests.

The rock ptarmigan is a grouse of high mountains and Arctic tundra that changes colour with the seasons.

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

The snowy owl breeds on the open Arctic tundra and hunts by day under the midnight sun.

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 western capercaillie is the largest grouse in the world and lives in old conifer forest across northern Eurasia.

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

The willow ptarmigan is a grouse of the far north that wears brown feathers in summer and white ones in winter.

The wolverine is the largest weasel that lives on land, a solitary scavenger and hunter of the far north.