Talk:List of extinct animals of the British Isles

Extinction Low‑importance

	This article is a part of WikiProject Extinction, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative, comprehensive and easy-to-use resource on extinction and extinct organisms. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information.ExtinctionWikipedia:WikiProject ExtinctionTemplate:WikiProject ExtinctionExtinction articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

Animals Low‑importance

List of extinct animals of the British Isles is within the scope of WikiProject Animals, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to animals and zoology. For more information, visit the project page.AnimalsWikipedia:WikiProject AnimalsTemplate:WikiProject Animalsanimal articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

It is requested that an image or images be included in this article to improve its quality.

WikiProject Animals To-do:

Here are some Open Tasks :

Copyedit:
Merge: GLAM/ARKive donated texts into articles about endangered species.
Improve: Photoperiodism, Tool use by non-human animals, Omnivore, Animal suicide, Sphaerium beckmani (a species in family Sphaeriidae),
Requests:
- Mammals:
- Invertebrates: Campocraspedon
- Fishes: Zaniolepis frenata
Merge: GLAM/ARKive donated texts into articles about endangered species.
Expand: Junqueira cow, Atka mackerel
Nominate and vote: Science collaboration of the month, Article Improvement Drive, WikiProject Animals Collaboration

Biota of Great Britain and Ireland (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biota of Great Britain and Ireland, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Biota of Great Britain and IrelandWikipedia:WikiProject Biota of Great Britain and IrelandTemplate:WikiProject Biota of Great Britain and IrelandBiota of Great Britain and Ireland articles

Lists High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Citations

There is a clear lack of citations in this article which is making it near to in useable. The No.1 priority has to be getting accurate citations in especially for animals which don't have their own article. PascalsCalculatingHamster (talk) 13:32, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Neanderthals

Should Neanderthals be included on this list? Pro66 (talk) 16:36, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so - first, because this is supposed to be a page about animals in the British Isles that became extinct after the speration from continental Europe c.8000BC - even though the page lists several animals (eg the woolly mammoth) that became extinct before the separation according to the info on the list - and Neanderthals became extinct as a distinct human group in Europe between 40,000-25,000BC ([1]), 13,000 years or more before the separation; second, because in fact everyone whose ancestors left Africa c.70,000 years ago has around 2% Neanderthal DNA ^[1] - so to that extent they're not 'extinct' anyway - and third, I wouldn't class them as 'animals', as they're 'humans'. Of course, humans are animals biologically speaking, but not in general discourse.

--Markaeologist (talk) 13:21, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/

Tweaks and source

Some of the dates don't agree with the articles on the given species. This book might help: Extinctions and Invasions: A social history of British fauna PatHadley (talk) 13:18, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bears

Why no mention of bears? Perhaps there is a good reason, but I came to this page looking to find out when bears became extinct in the UK, so it would be useful to say something about this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.4.106 (talk) 17:38, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are a few species missing from this list; bears, moose and beaver were all found at some point living on the land that is currently part of the UK, but none of them are on this list. --Connelly90 09:21, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Elk

Fauna of Scotland states that "elk...lasted until about 1300" citing Hull, Robin (2007) Scottish Mammals. Edinburgh. Birlinn. ISBN 1-84158-536-X. This article states 1500 BC. The disparity is huge; which is correct? Mutt Lunker (talk) 20:22, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Elk has not been reintroduced to Britain. Three animals were imported from Sweden and kept in an enclosure on the Alladale estate on a trial basis, they are not there now. You may as well list any other zoo animal. Quetzal1964 (talk) 06:53, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Boars?

Should the wild boar be added to the mammels list? Though it has been accidentally re-introduced in the last few decades, it was extinct in the British Isles for several hundred years. How authoritative this website about boar in Britain is I have no idea, but the idea that boar were extinct by AD1200 or thereabouts seems pretty reasonable. ^[1] --Markaeologist (talk) 13:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://www.britishwildboar.org.uk/index.htm?britain.htm

Walrus?

Walruses are occassionally seen off the Shetland and Orkney Islands. So seems odd to list them as extinct in the British Isles? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-21647421 — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChilternGiant (talk • contribs) 23:17, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pelican?

A pelican was seen recently in Cornwall http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-36259924 — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChilternGiant (talk • contribs) 23:20, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The pelican recorded in Bronze and Iron age remains was the Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus and not the Great White Pelican Pelecanus oncrotalus ^[1] Quetzal1964 (talk) 20:09, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Yalden D.W. & Albarella U. (2009), The History of British Birds, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-019-958116-0

Wolves

1166 for wolves in Wales in surely too early, if they were still found in Shropshire and Herefordshire around 1280-1300 (Edward I/Corbet campaign)? Walshie79 (talk) 06:37, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on List of extinct animals of the British Isles. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/wild-boar/wildboar-status.pdf
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/wild-boar/wildboar-status.pdf
Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20041123010135/http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/features/history-british-birds.htm to http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/features/history-british-birds.htm
Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20050526002013/http://www.buglife.org.uk/html/insect_types/about_inverts_insect_types_bumblebees.htm to http://www.buglife.org.uk/html/insect_types/about_inverts_insect_types_bumblebees.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 05:48, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

B.C., B.C.E., or B.P.?

Something is really bugging me about this article. That is that the dates from before A.D. or C.E. and listed in three different ways on the article. They ways the dates are listed are B.C. (Before Christ), B.C.E. (Before Common Era) and B.P. (Before Present). There really should be consistency when it comes to listing dates. What would be the most appropriate date list for this article? --JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 21:50, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For now, I changed all dates from before Year 1 to B.P. for consistency. --JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 22:45, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In a twist of fate, I decided to have a look at the talk page before continuing with some minor edits to this article, and noticed this topic at the bottom. It seemed to have escaped your notice at the time, but the zero years for BP and BC are almost two millienia apart. The resulting massive inaccuracies have gone unnoticed for three years. I've already corrected the errors, but it might be worth double-checking the changes in the offending revision and mine. EnronEvolved^{My Talk Page} 19:28, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the changes. Sorry for any inconvenience I caused, I just wanted to make the article consistent and it looked weird seeing three date types from before Year 1 (B.C. (Before Christ), B.C.E. (Before Common Era) and B.P. (Before Present/Before Period)) and thought it would be a good idea to fix the problem. I had no idea that B.C. was not the same as B.P. and I though that they all meant before Year 1 A.D./C.E. .

Strangely, I thought that this article got redirected to the List of European species extinct in the Holocene last year, but it looks like it got brought back a few weeks ago. JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 21:55, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/

[2] ttp://www.britishwildboar.org.uk/index.htm?britain.htm

[Yalden_&_Albarella-3] Yalden D.W. & Albarella U. (2009), The History of British Birds, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-019-958116-0

[1]

[1]

[1]