Principal mammals & birds seen on our John o'Groats Tour
Names in italics are North American equivalents - not claimed to be exhaustive!
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Mammals Rabbit Brown hare Stoat Weasel Common [Harbor] seal Grey seal Red deer Roe deer Common dolphin Porpoise
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Birds Fulmar petrel Gannet Shag Cormorant Grey heron Mute swan Whooper swan Greylag goose Shelduck Mallard Wigeon Teal Eider Red-breasted merganser Red kite Osprey Sparrowhawk Buzzard Hen harrier [Northern harrier] Peregrine Merlin Kestrel Red grouse Pheasant Moorhen Coot | Oystercatcher Ringed plover [Ruddy] Turnstone Lapwing Dunlin Redshank Curlew Whimbrel Great skua Arctic skua [Parasitic jaeger] Black-headed gull Herring gull Lesser black-backed gull Great black-backed gull Common gull Kittiwake Sandwich tern Arctic tern Razorbill Guillemot [Common murre] [Atlantic] Puffin Black guillemot Rock dove Stock dove Wood pigeon Collared dove Short-eared owl Swift | Skylark [Barn] Swallow House martin Sand martin [Bank sawllow] Meadow pipit Rock pipit Pied wagtail Grey wagtail Willow warbler Stonechat Wheatear Robin Blackbird [Winter] Wren Chaffinch Goldfinch Twite Linnet House sparrow Starling Rook Carrion crow Hooded crow Jackdaw Raven | |||||