🇺🇦 Animals of Ukraine

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 moose is the largest deer.

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.

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

The red deer is one of the largest deer, found across Europe, western Asia and the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.

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 rock dove is the wild pigeon of sea cliffs and rocky gorges in Europe, North Africa and southern 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 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 western honey bee lives in colonies of tens of thousands and turns nectar into honey.

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.

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