Fauna

Warwickshire is an intensively farmed and heavily populated county with not a great deal of ‘natural’ countryside. Because animals depend directly or indirectly on plants for their food, the range of wild animals to be found depends on the range and size of the available habitats.

The county’s list of wild animals includes over 300 vertebrates including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. There are about 10,000 types of insect including butterflies and moths, beetles, flies, and bees, and a further 1,000 other invertebrates such as slugs and snails, spiders and centipedes. Some of these are very rare nationally.

The Warwickshire Biological Record Centre in the Warwickshire Museum holds records of the distribution, status and abundance of wild animals. A number of books about Warwickshire Wild Animals are published and copies can be seen in Warwickshire Libraries.