Capreolus capreolus - #3647
Western Roe Deer
Adult male with hard antlers. Also as European Roe Deer.
Geographic Distribution
Europe (excluding Corsica, Ireland, Sardinia, and Sicily) to W Russia and Ukraine, Turkey, Caucasus region, NW Syria, N Iraq, N Iran; extinct in Lebanon and Israel; Protoneolithic record from Jordan (Jericho).
Order/Family
Cervidae
Genus
Capreolus
Specific Epithet
capreolus
Image Location
UK, England, North Yorkshire
Image Date
26 May 2016
Photographer
JE Harding