🇹🇷 Animals of Turkey

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

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

The common kingfisher is a small blue and orange bird of clear, slow rivers across Europe, Asia and North Africa.

The common myna is a brown starling with a black head and a bare yellow patch behind the eye, native to southern Asia.

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

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

The Eurasian collared dove is a pale grey dove with a black half-collar on the neck.

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

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

The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

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

The white stork is a large white bird with black wings, a red bill and long red legs.

The wild boar is the wild pig of Europe, Asia and North Africa and the ancestor of the domestic pig.