Fauna of Lithuania
Facts and
numbers:
The
total number of vertebrate animals found in Lithuania is over 500.
Among
them 70 are mammals, 369 – birds, 100 – fish.
The
total number of Lithuania’s invertebrate species is estimated at over 200,000.
Among them 150,000 are insects, about 1,200 – arachnids and about 170 –
molluscs.
The
total number of animal and plant species included into the Red Data Book of
Lithuania (Lietuvos Raudonąją knygą) is 768.
- they are the most numerous animals in Lithuania. The extraordinarily prolific
beavers are busy building their dams and lodges on our streams, lakes and
rivers.
The
extraordinarily prolific beavers are busy building their dams and lodges on our
streams, lakes and rivers.
Storks
Lithuania has the highest density of white stork population in Europe with 13
000 pairs. That is why Lithuania is known as a land of storks and the stork is
our country’s national bird.
Black storks
Lithuania
still has rare cattle species - wild European
bisons - left in the wild. In 2010, there were 60 bisons living in the
wild, and each year their herds are growing in number to once again roam in
Lithuania forests.
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