Deer of Great Britain

There are six species of deer living wild in Great Britain:^[1] the red deer, roe deer, fallow deer, sika deer, Reeves's muntjac, and the Chinese water deer.^[2] Of those, red and roe deer are native and have lived in the isles throughout the Holocene. Fallow has been reintroduced twice, by the Romans and the Normans, after it died out in the last ice age. The other three are escaped or released alien species.

Native deer species

• Red deer
• Roe deer

Non-native introduced species

• Fallow deer
• Sika deer
• Reeves's muntjac
• Water deer

Reintroduced species

• Eurasian elk - (on private reserves)
• Reindeer - (on private reserves)

Extinct species

• Irish elk

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Mammalia

Subclass: Eutheria

Order: Artiodactyla

Suborder: Pecora

Family: Cervidae

Gallery

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  Red deer

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  Roe deer

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  Fallow deer

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  Reeves's muntjac

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  Sika deer

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  Chinese water deer

References

1. Walker, M.D. Distribution of British Deer. British Naturalist.
2. The Deer Initiative — Species