🇷🇺 Animals of Russia

The African wildcat is a small striped cat of dry Africa and Asia, and the ancestor of every domestic cat.

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

The Asian black bear is a medium-sized forest bear of Asia with a pale crescent on its chest and a gift for climbing.

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

The black kite is a medium-sized raptor with angled wings and a forked tail.

The bowhead whale is a heavy Arctic baleen whale that breaks sea ice with its huge arched head.

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 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 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 raccoon dog is a stocky, fox-like canid of East Asia with a black face mask like a raccoon's.

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 elk, or wapiti, is the second largest deer in the world.

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

The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus.

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 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 house sparrow is a small brown and grey bird that lives beside people almost everywhere on earth.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

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

The leopard is a spotted big cat that lives across Africa and Asia in more kinds of country than any other cat.

The leopard cat is a small spotted cat found across South, Southeast and East Asia, from Pakistan to the Russian Far East.

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 merlin is a small, stocky falcon of open northern country that hunts small birds in fast low flight.

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 muskrat is a semiaquatic rodent of North American marshes, ponds and rivers that builds domed lodges of cattail and mud.

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