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The Caithness
Biodiversity Action Plan - February 2003
ANNEX 3 : NATIONAL PRIORITY
HABITATS AND SPECIES LIST
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List of nationally important habitats present in
Caithness For which a Broad Habitat Statement or Priority Habitat Action Plan has been prepared. (Ref: www.ukbap.org.uk Sea & coast Sublittoral sands & gravels River, loch & wetland Mesotrophic lochs Farm & croft land Lowland meadows Forest & woodland native pine woodland Blanket bog, moor & hill Blanket bog The following additional habitats are considered important by local people: Beaches, Lochs, Rivers & burns, Rough grassland, Arable crops, Birch woodland, Policy woodland, Plantation woodland, Parks & gardens, Roadside verges. |
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List of nationally important species known to be present in Caithness For which a Priority Species Action Plan, Grouped Species Action Plan or Species Statement has been prepared. (Ref: www.ukbap.org.uk ) Bees Birds Carduelis cannabina Linnet Emberiza schoeniculus Reed bunting Melanitta nigra Common scoter Miliaria calandra Corn bunting Muscicapa striata Spotted flycatcher Passer montanus Tree sparrow Pyrrhula pyrrhula Bullfinch Turdus philomelos Songthrush Fish Clupea harengus Herring Gadus morhua Cod Grouped plan Commercial marine fish Grouped plan Deep-water fish Lophius piscatorius Monkfish Merlangius merlangus Whiting Merluccius merluccius Common hake Molva molva Ling Pleuronectes platessa Plaice Pollachius virens Saithe Raja batis Common skate Scomber scombrus Mackerel Fungi Mammals Balaenoptera acutorostrata Minke whale Globicephala melas Long-finned pilot whale Grampus griseus Risso's dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus Atlantic white-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris White-beaked dolphin Lepus europaeus Brown hare Lutra lutra Otter Orcinus orca Killer whale Phocoena phocoena Harbour porpoise Pipistrellus pipistrellus Pipistrelle bat Tursiops truncatus Bottlenose dolphin Mosses Reptiles Vascular plants Euphrasia rotundifolia An eyebright Saxifraga hirculus Yellow marsh saxifrage Trichomanes speciosum Killarney fern |
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