🇮🇹 Animals of Italy

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 bearded vulture is a huge mountain raptor that lives almost entirely on bone.

The black kite is a medium-sized raptor with angled wings and a 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 brown rat is a large, burrowing rodent that lives wherever people live.

The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.

The carrion crow is an all-black crow of western Europe and eastern Asia with a heavy bill and a harsh croak.

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

The cockatiel is the smallest cockatoo, and it lives across the dry inland of Australia.

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

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

The common raven is a large black crow that lives right across the northern half of the world.

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

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

The eastern gray squirrel is a medium-sized tree squirrel of the oak and hickory forests of eastern North America.

The Egyptian goose is a pale brown waterbird of African rivers, lakes and grassland, marked by a dark ring around each eye.

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

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 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 fin whale is the second longest animal alive and one of the fastest of the great whales.

The golden eagle is a large dark brown raptor of open country across the Northern Hemisphere.

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 egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

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

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 house mouse is a small grey-brown rodent that lives in and around human buildings on every inhabited continent.

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 mallard is the green-headed dabbling duck of ponds, rivers and city parks across the northern world.

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

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

The Muscovy duck is a large tree-perching duck of tropical America, black with white wing patches and a bare red face.

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

The nutria, or coypu, is a large semiaquatic rodent from the marshes of South America with orange teeth and a round rat-like tail.

The ortolan bunting is a small seed-eating songbird that breeds across Europe and West Asia and winters in Africa.

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.

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 rock dove is the wild pigeon of sea cliffs and rocky gorges in Europe, North Africa and southern Asia.

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

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.