🇮🇪 Animals of Ireland

The Atlantic puffin is a small black and white seabird with a bright triangular bill.

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

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 starling is a glossy black songbird of Europe and Asia, spangled with white spots in winter.

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

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

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

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

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 fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

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