Talk:List of extinct animals of the British Isles
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Just began this page. There is a similar page for the USA, but not one that I could see for the British Isles (Great Britain, Ireland, other minor islands). I don't have a great deal of knowledge here, so anyone wishing to edit please do! Grunners 13:34, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Dates
Has someone deleted extinction dates? Could have sworn I'd put them in! Grunners 14:53, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Not that I know off, and I can't see anything about that in the history. Anyway, I've updated the Lynx extinction date from 200 AD to 450 AD. As the latest findings, sponsored by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority were on bones from two caves near Settle, one of which was dated to c1842bp and the other to c1550bp (400 AD). bp = Before Present = Before 1950. Pmaas 16:40, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
- Source: Hetherington, D. A., Lord, T. C. and Jacobi, R. M. 2005. New evidence for the occurrence of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in medieval Britain. J. Quaternary Sci., Vol. 21 pp. 3-8. ISSN 0267-8179. Pmaas 16:47, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Leopards and Wallabies.
I'm removing Leopards and Wallibies from the list because I have no sources that Leopards were ever in Britain and I'm fairly sure Wallabies still are around in Scotland. However if anyone has any sources that mension them as extinct in Britain I would like to see it.
- Leopards inhabited Southern England during the last glaciation.--Menah the Great 11:02, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
- But where is the reference for this?--GRM 16:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Separation date
" Only species extinct since the British Isles were separated from mainland Europe are included." I think I have read somewhere that the date of separation is 9000BC. If this is the case then there are too many mammals in the list. Does anyone know a reliable source for the separation date?Phoenixis 13:33, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Barnacle Goose
I am not at all convinced that "recolonized" is appropriate for this species. Yes, it does "again" breed in the UK, but that from escaped stock. It is not what the birding fraternity call a Category A breeding species in the UK. The winter visitors are what the birders might call "genuine" and therefore Category A birds, but these do not (to the best of my knowledge) stay on to breed--GRM 16:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
