List of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species

• Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) • Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), warm and temperate seas worldwide • European (brown) hare (Lepus europaeus), northern, central, and western Europe and western Asia • Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), northern Europe and Asia Minor • European otter (Lutra 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 leucourus), Eurasia (subspecies endemic to Great Britain) • Water vole (Arvicola amphibius), Great Britain, northern and central Europe and in parts of Russia • European (western) 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) • Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus) • 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==

Source: • 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 • Barred grass snake (Natrix helvetica), England, Wales and mainland Europe • Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca), northern and central Europe, Middle East ==Amphibians==

• Great crested newt (Triturus cristatus), Europe and parts of Asia • Natterjack toad (Bufo calamita), Northern Europe ==Fish==

Source: • Allis shad (Alosa alosa) • Pollan (Coregonus autumnalis pollan) • Twaite shad (Alosa fallax) • Vendace (Coregonus vandesius) • Gwyniad (Coregonus pennantii) • European eel (Anguilla anguilla) • Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) ==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) • Wool carder bee 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 • Black hairstreak (Satyrium pruni) • 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) • 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) • 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 mountain ringlet (Erebia epiphron) • Small pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria selene) • Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticaria) • 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 • Golden hoverfly (Callicera spinolae) • Broken-banded wasp-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: • Ivell's sea anemone (Edwardsia ivelli), endemic and probably extinct • Starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) ==Plants==

Trees • Common juniper (Juniperus communis) • Plymouth pear (Pyrus cordata) Flowering plants • Creeping marshwort (Apium repens) • Early gentian (Gentianella anglica), endemic • Eyebrights (Euphrasia sp.), endemic • Fen orchid (Liparis loeselii) • Floating water-plantain (Luronium natans) • Holly-leaved naiad (Najas marina) • Isle of Man cabbage (Coincya monensis), endemic • Lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus) • Lundy cabbage (Coincya wrightii), endemic • Mountain scurvy-grass (Cochlearia micacea), probably endemic • Norwegian mugwort (Artemisia norvegica) • Ribbon-leaved water plantain (Alisma gramineum) • Shetland pondweed (Potamogeton rutilus) • Shore dock (Rumex rupestris) • Slender naiad (Najas flexilis) • Star fruit (Damasonium alisma) • Three-lobed crowfoot (Ranunculus tripartitus) • Western ramping-fumitory (Fumaria occidentalis), endemic • Wild cotoneaster (Cotoneaster cambricus), probably endemic • Yellow marsh saxifrage (Saxifraga hirculus) • Young's helleborine orchid (Epipactis youngiana), endemic ==Fungi==

• Devil's bolete (Boletus satanas) • 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 • Pyrenula hibernica • River jelly lichen (Collema dishotomum) • Schismatomma graphidioides • Starry breck-lichen (Buellia asterella) • morchella ==Mosses==

• Cornish path-moss (Ditrichum cornubicum), endemic • Derbyshire feather-moss (Thamnobryum angustifolium), endemic • Glaucous beard-moss (Didymodon glaucus) • Green shield moss (Buxbaumia viridis) • Slender green feather-moss (Hamatocaulis vernicosus) • Weissia multicapsularis ==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 ==See also==