Europe

The alpaca is a domesticated Andean camelid kept for its fleece.

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

The Atlantic canary is the wild island finch from which domestic canaries descend.

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 owl is a pale nocturnal hunter with a heart-shaped face.

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 common bed bug is a small wingless insect that hides in sheltered cracks near sleeping hosts.

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

Black aphids are not a single species.

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

The black swan is a large Australian waterbird with black plumage, white flight feathers and a bright red bill.

The blue mussel is a coastal bivalve that forms dense beds on suitable surfaces.

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 Canada goose is a large black-necked goose with a white chinstrap, native to North America and now settled on four continents.

Carp is a broad familiar name for related freshwater fishes.

The carrion crow is an all-black crow of western Europe and eastern Asia with a heavy bill and a harsh croak.

The domestic cat is a small carnivore with a flexible body and retractile claws.

The chamois is a small goat-antelope of the steep mountains of Europe and western Asia, with hooked horns and a striped face.

The domestic chicken is a social ground-feeding bird descended chiefly from red junglefowl.

Cockroaches occupy many environments.

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 frog is a widespread European amphibian that also occurs in northwestern Asia.

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

The common loon is a heavy diving bird of northern lakes, with a black head, a white necklace and a dagger bill.

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.

Cormorants are fish-eating diving birds.

Domestic cattle are large social herbivores kept in many parts of the world.

Cranes are long-legged birds of open country and wetlands.

Cuckoos form a varied bird family.

Cuttlefish are shell-bearing cephalopods with remarkable camouflage.

Daphnia are small freshwater crustaceans rather than fleas.

The domestic dog is a social canid whose breeds vary greatly in size and appearance.

The domestic donkey is an herbivorous equid with long ears and sturdy hooves.

Ducks are waterbirds with many different feeding habits.

Dung beetles have several ways of using dung.

The eastern gray squirrel is a medium-sized tree squirrel of the oak and hickory forests of eastern North America.

Egrets are herons known for pale plumage in several species.

The Egyptian goose is a pale brown waterbird of African rivers, lakes and grassland, marked by a dark ring around each eye.

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.