🇸🇪 Animals of Sweden

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 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 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 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 moose is the largest deer.

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

The snowy owl breeds on the open Arctic tundra and hunts by day under the midnight sun.

The tawny owl is the common night owl of European woodland, with a round head, black eyes and no ear tufts.

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.