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QUANTOCK ANIMALS

Here is a kist of some of the animals you might see on the Quantocks.

Click on the name of your animal (or GROUP of animals) to find out more.

A

• adders
• ammonites
• AMPHIBIANS
• ants, wood
• auroch

B

• badgers
• barnacles
• bears
• blackcap
• brown butterfly
• BIRDS
• BUTTERFLIES
• buzzard

C

• cattle
• chiffchaff
• chiton
• cinnebar moths
• CRUSTACEANS

D

• deer, red

E

• earthworms
• emperor moth
• EXTINCT

F

• finches
• FISH
• field voles
• foxes
• fritillaries
• frogs

G

• goby
• grasshoppers
• grass snakes
• green woodpecker
• great spotted woodpecker

H

• hares
• heath butterflies

I

• INSECTS

J

K

• kestrel

L

• limpets
• linnet
• lizards
• lugworms

M

• MAMMALS
• mammoth
• meadow pipit
• MOTHS
• MOLLUSCS
• mussel

N

• nuthatch

O

P

• paddock
• partridge
• peacock butterfly
• peregrine falcon
• pied flycatcher
• pigs
• ponies

Q

R

• raven
• rabbits
• redstart
• red deer
• red admiral butterfly
• REPTILES

S

• sandhoppers
• sea anemones
• sheep
• shore crabs
• skylark
• slow worms
• slugs
• snails
• spiders (rare heathland spiders)
• squirrels
• stonechat

T

• ticks
• toads
• topshells
• tortoiseshell
• treecreepers
• tree pipit
• trout

U

V

• voles, field

W

• wheatear
• whelks
• whinchat
• willow warbler
• wild boar
• winkles
• wolves
• wood ants
• woodmouse
• woodpecker, green
• woodpecker, great
• wood warbler

X

Y

Z

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