This is a list of fauna of the Scottish Highlands.

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• European beaver (reintroduced)
• Badger
• European otter
• Field vole
• Goat
• Gray wolf (extinct)
• Mink (invasive)
• Moose (reintroduced)
• Mountain hare
• Pine marten
• Red deer
• Red fox
• Red squirrel
• Reindeer (reintroduced)
• Roe deer
• Scottish wildcat
• Sheep
• Stoat
• Water vole
• Scottish highland cattle

• Black grouse
• Black-throated diver
• Common buzzard
• Western capercaillie
• Common gull
• Common sandpiper
• Common cuckoo
• Eurasian curlew
• White-throated dipper
• Eurasian dotterel
• Dunlin
• Golden eagle
• Great skua
• Common greenshank
• Greylag goose
• Hen harrier
• Hooded crow
• Meadow pipit
• Merlin
• Osprey
• Peregrine falcon
• Ptarmigan
• Common raven
• Red grouse
• Red kite (reintroduced)
• Red-throated diver
• Ring ouzel
• Scottish crossbill — endemic
• Common snipe
• Snow bunting
• European stonechat
• Northern wheatear
• White-tailed eagle

• Adder
• Viviparous lizard

• Common frog
• Palmate newt

• Charr
• Salmon
• Trout

• Green tiger beetle
• Ground beetle

• Bilberry bumblebee
• Heath bumblebee

• Large heath butterfly
• Mountain ringlet butterfly
• Scotch argus butterfly
• Black mountain moth
• Emperor moth
• Fox moth
• Magpie moth
• Mountain burnet moth
• Northern dart moth
• Northern eggar moth

• Azure hawker dragonfly
• Four-spotted chaser dragonfly
• Golden-ringed dragonfly

• Cranefly
• Deer ked
• Midge
• Sheep tick

• Kempe and Wrightham, Hostile Habitats: Scotland's Mountain Environment Scottish Mountaineering Trust 2006, ISBN 0-907521-93-2

• Fauna of Scotland

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)