Wildlife in Co. Sligo |
Special Wildlife
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Flora: |
fringed sandwort, moss
campion |
Fauna: |
pine marten, Canada goose,
long-tailed duck, sanderling,
crossbill |
Insects: |
scarce blue-tailed damselfly,
Irish damselfly, keeled skimmer,
black-tailed skimmer, black-tailed
skimmer, nebria brevicollis, nebria
rufescens, nebria salina,
notiophilus aquaticus, notiophilus
biguttatus, notiophilus germinyi,
carabus arvensis, carabus
granulatus, carabus problematicus,
loricera pilicornis, clivina
fossor, patrobus assimilis, trechus
obtusus, bembidion atrocaeruleum,
bembidion deletum, pterostichus
madidus, pterostichus melanarius,
pterostichus niger, pterostichus
nigrita, pterostichus rhaeticus,
abax parallelepipedus, calathus
cinctus, calathus fuscipes,
olisthopus rotundatus, paranchus
albipes, agonum muelleri, badister
bullatus, dicheirotrichus gustavii,
10-spot ladybird, eyed ladybird,
larch ladybird, cream-spot
ladybird, 7-spot ladybird, 14-spot
ladybird, 22-spot ladybird |
Marine: |
Melobesia membranacea,
Stenogramme interrupta, Odonthalia
dentata |
Lichens: |
Abrothallus microspermus,
Abrothallus parmeliarum,
Arthopyrenia cinereopruinosa,
Biatoropsis usnearum, Buellia
subdisciformis, Bunodophoron
melanocarpum, Calicium glaucellum,
Candelariella medians, Catillaria
atomarioides, Celothelium
ischnobelum, Cladonia subulata,
Clauzadea immersa, Clauzadeana
macula, Collema polycarpon,
Dactylospora parasitica, Degelia
plumbea, Farnoldia jurana,
Gomphillus calycioides,
Heterodermia japonica, Lecania
rabenhorstii, Lecanora pulicaris,
Lempholemma cladodes, Lempholemma
polyanthes, Lepraria caesioalba,
Lepraria diffusa diffusa, Lepraria
nivalis, Leproplaca xantholyta,
Lichenoconium xanthoriae, Lobaria
scrobiculata, Marchandiomyces
aurantiacus, Marchandiomyces
corallinus, Micarea leprosula,
Micarea lignaria var. endoleuca,
Muellerella lichenicola,
Mycoblastus sanguinarius, Nephroma
parile, Normandina pulchella,
Ochrolechia turneri, Opegrapha
dolomitica, Opegrapha parasitica,
Parmeliella testacea, Peltigera
leucophlebia, Petractis clausa,
Phacopsis oxyspora, Phaeospora
parasitica, Placopsis lambii,
Polyblastia cruenta, Porpidia
contraponenda, Porpidia speirea,
Pronectria anisospora, Pyrenula
laevigata, Racodium rupestre,
Rhizocarpon hochstetteri,
Sphaerophorus fragilis, Staurothele
fissa, Stereocaulon dactylophyllum,
Stereocaulon vesuvianum var.
nodulosum, Thelidium decipiens,
Toninia episema, Toninia
verrucarioides, Umbilicaria
torrefacta, Usnea flavocardia,
Verrucaria aquatilis, Verrucaria
calciseda, Verrucaria ditmarsica,
Verrucaria halizoa, Xylographa
vitiligo |
Endangered species
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Flora: |
hoary whitlowgrass, alpine
meadow-grass, alpine bistort,
tea-leaved willow, alpine saw-wort,
yellow saxifrage, alpine saxifrage,
golden dock, Killarney fern, oak
fern, bird cherry, blue-eyed
grass |
Fauna: |
little grebe, whooper swan,
barnacle goose, eider, great
black-backed gull, pied
flycatcher |
Insects: |
Irish damselfly, Dingy skipper,
robust spreadwing, crescent
bluet |
Molluscs: |
plaited door snail, whorl
snail |
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Puffin
Fratercula arctica
by Onenn

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