🇳🇱 Animals of Netherlands

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 beluga whale is a white toothed whale of Arctic and sub-Arctic seas.

The black swan is a large Australian waterbird with black plumage, white flight feathers and a bright red bill.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 gyrfalcon is the biggest of all falcons, and it hunts across the Arctic tundra.

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 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 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 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.

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