🇬🇷 Animals of Greece

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

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 chamois is a small goat-antelope of the steep mountains of Europe and western Asia, with hooked horns and a striped face.

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 nightingale is a small brown songbird of dense scrub in Europe and western Asia.

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

The Eurasian collared dove is a pale grey dove with a black half-collar on the neck.

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 golden jackal is a small wolf-like canid of Europe and southern Asia that lives in lifelong pairs and eats anything from voles to fruit.

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

The great white shark is the largest predatory fish.

The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread flamingo.

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

The Indian peafowl is the large ground bird of India and Sri Lanka, and it is India's national bird.

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

The monk parakeet is a small green parrot from southern South America with a pale grey face and breast.

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 rose-ringed parakeet is a slim green parrot with a red bill and a very long tail.

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

The white stork is a large white bird with black wings, a red bill and long red legs.