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This is a list of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species. Some suffer because of loss of habitat, but many are in decline following the introduction of foreign species, which out-compete the native species or carry disease.

See also the list of extinct animals of the British Isles.

This list includes the 116 species identified as requiring action plans in the Biodiversity Steering Group's report of December 1995.

Mammals

  • Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia)
  • Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), warm and temperate seas worldwide
  • European hare (Lepus europaeus), northern, central, and western Europe and western Asia
  • Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), northern Europe and Asia Minor
  • European otter (Lutra lutra), Asia, Africa and Europe
  • Greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinium), Europe, Africa, South Asia and Australia
  • Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), coastal waters in the Northern Hemisphere
  • Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), Eurasia
  • Water vole (Arvicola terrestris), Great Britain, northern and central Europe and in parts of Russia
  • European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)

Birds

List of UK BAP priority bird species.

  • Aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola), passage migrant through UK
  • Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)
  • Corn crake (Crex crex), globally threatened
  • Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
  • Great bittern (Botarus stellaris)
  • Grey partridge (Perdix perdix)
  • Red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)
  • Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)
  • Song thrush (Turdus philomelos)
  • Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus)
  • Willow tit (Poecile montanus)
  • Marsh tit (Poecile palustris)
  • Corn bunting (Miliaria calandra)
  • Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
  • Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus)
  • Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccthraustes)
  • House sparrow (Passer domesticus)
  • Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus)
  • European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur)
  • Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
  • Marsh warbler (Acrocephalus palustris)
  • Red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
  • Wood warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix)
  • Roseate tern (Sterna dougallii)
  • Common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
  • Lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor)
  • Northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
  • Cirl bunting (Emberiza cirlus)
  • Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)
  • Western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava)
  • Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa)
  • Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
  • European herring gull (Larus argentatus)
  • Lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus)
  • Little tern (Sternula albifrons)

Reptiles

  • Slow-worm (Anguis fragilis), Eurasia
  • Sand lizard (Lacerta agilis), most of Europe and eastwards to Mongolia
  • Northern or European adder (Vipera berus), Western Europe and Asia
  • Grass snake (Natrix natrix), England, Wales and mainland Europe
  • Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca), northern and central Europe, Middle East

Amphibians

Fish

  • Allis shad (Alosa alosa)
  • Pollan (Coregonus autumnalis pollan)
  • Twaite shad (Alosa fallax)
  • Vendace (Coregonus vandesius)
  • Gwyniad (Coregonus pennantii)
  • European eel (Anguilla anguilla)

Insects

Ants

  • Black-backed meadow ant (Formica pratensis), possibly extinct
  • Black bog ant (Formica candida)
  • Narrow-headed ant (Formica exsecta)

Bees

  • Shrill carder bee (Bombus sylvarum)

Beetles

  • Beaulieu dung beetle (Aphodius niger), a dung beetle
  • Blue ground beetle (Carabus intricatus)
  • Bembidion argenteolum, a ground beetle
  • Crucifix ground beetle (Panagaeus cruxmajor), a ground beetle
  • Hazel pot beetle (Cryptocephalus coryli), a leaf beetle
  • Lizard weevil (Cathormiocerus britannicus), probably endemic
  • Orbera oculata, a longhorn beetle
  • Pashford pot beetle (Cryptocephalus exiguus), a leaf beetle, probably endemic and extinct
  • Stag beetle (Lucanus cervus)
  • Lough Neagh camphor beetle (Stenus palposus), a rove beetle
  • Tachys edmonsi, a ground beetle, endemic
  • Violet click beetle (Limoniscus violaceus)
  • Tansy beetle (Chrysolina graminis)

Butterflies and moths

  • Bright wave (Idaea ochrata)
  • Brown hairstreak (Thecla betulae)
  • Chequered skipper (Carterosephalus palaemon)
  • Dingy skipper (Erynnis tages)
  • Duke of Burgundy (Hamearis lucina)
  • Flounced chestnut (Agrochola helvola)
  • Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia)
  • Grayling (Hipparchia semele)
  • Greenweed flat-body moth (Agonopterix atomella), a micro-moth
  • Grey dagger (Acronicta psi)
  • Grizzled skipper (Pyrgus malvae)
  • Heath fritillary (Mellicta athalia)
  • Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticaria)
  • Black hairstreak (Satyrium pruni)
  • High brown fritillary (Argynnis adippe)
  • Knot grass (Acronicta rumicis)
  • Large blue (Maculinea arion), endemic subspecies extinct, re-established from Swedish stock
  • Large heath (Coenonympha tullia)
  • Lulworth skipper (Thymelicus acteon)
  • Marsh fritillary (Eurodryas aurinia)
  • Small mountain ringlet (Erebia epiphron)
  • Netted carpet moth (Eustroma reticulatum)
  • Northern brown argus (Aricia artaxerxes)
  • Pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne)
  • Reddish buff (Acosmetia caliginosa)
  • Silver-spotted skipper (Hesperia comma)
  • Silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus)
  • Small blue (Cupido minimus)
  • Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus)
  • Small pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria selene)
  • Speckled footman (Coscinia cribraria)
  • Wall (Lasiommata megera)
  • White admiral (Limenitis camilla)
  • White-letter hairstreak (Satyrium w-album)
  • Wood white (Leptidea sinapis)
  • V-Moth (Macaria wauaria)

Crickets

  • European mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)

Damselflies

  • Southern damselfly (Coenagrion mercuriale)

Flies

  • Callicera spinolae, a hoverfly
  • Golden hoverfly (Chrysotoxum octomaculatum)
  • Hornet robberfly (Asilus crabroniformis), Southern England and South & West Wales
  • Manx robber fly (Machimus cowini),

Grasshoppers

  • Large marsh grasshopper (Stethophyma grossum)

Crustaceans

  • White clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes)

Molluscs

Gastropods

Freshwater snails:

  • Glutinous snail (Myxas glutinosa)
  • Little whirlpool ram's-horn snail (Anisus vorticulus)
  • Shining ram's-horn snail (Segmentina nitida)

Land snails:

  • Narrow-mouthed whorl snail (Vertigo angustior)
  • Round-mouthed whorl snail (Vertigo genesii)
  • Geyer's whorl snail (Vertigo geyeri)
  • Desmoulin's whorl snail (Vertigo moulinsiana)
  • Sandbowl snail (Catinella arenaria)
Bivalves
  • Depressed river mussel (Pseudanodonta complanata)
  • Freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera)
  • Fine-lined pea mussel (Pisidium tenuilineatum)

Other invertebrates

Freshwater:

  • Medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis)

Marine:

Plants

Trees

Flowering plants

Fungi

  • Devil's bolete (Boletus satanus)
  • Sandy stilt puffball (Battarraea phalloides)
  • White stalkball (Tulostoma niveum)

Lichens

  • Elm's gyalecta (Gyalecta ulmi)
  • Orange-fruited elm-lichen (Caloplaca luteoalba)
  • Pseudocyphellaria aurata
  • Pseudocyphellaria novegica
  • River jelly lichen (Collema dishotomum)
  • Schismatomma graphidioides
  • Starry breck-lichen (Buellia asterella)
    • morchella

Mosses

Liverworts

  • Atlantic lejeunea (Lejeunea mandonii)
  • Marsh earwort (Jamesoniella undulifolia)
  • Norfolk flapwort (Lophozia rutheana)
  • Petalwort (Petalophyllum ralfsii)
  • Western rustwort (Marsupella profunda)

Stoneworts

  • Mossy stonewort (Chara muscosa), probably extinct
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