🇳🇴 Animals of Norway

The Arctic fox is a small fox of the tundra with the best insulating fur of any mammal.

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

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

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

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

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

The moose is the largest deer.

The muskox is a shaggy Arctic grazer, a giant relative of sheep and goats that outlived the Ice Age in Canada and Greenland.

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

The orca is the largest dolphin and the top predator of the sea.

The polar bear is the largest bear and the largest land carnivore.

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 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 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 walrus is a huge tusked seal of the Arctic seas that feeds on clams from the seabed and rests in crowds on the ice.

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.