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Scottish Wildlife Habitats

A wildlife ‘habitat’ is the locality in which a plant or animal grows or lives, on land or in water.

Across Scotland there are a diverse range of habitat types each of which provides a setting in which species are found and where people live and work.

photo: The Blackmount hills from Lochan Mhic Pheadair Ruaidhe by the West Highland way as it crosses Rannoch Moor, Argyll and Stirling area

photo: Heather Moorland in flower, Amulree, Perthshire, Tayside and Clackmannanshire area

photo: Grass dominated peat bog, Duich Moss nnr, Isle of Islay, Argyll and Stirling area

Mountain

Moorland

Peatland

photo: Scot's pine forest (Pinus sylvestris),ancient Caledonian pine forest,Mature trees and saplings, Rothiemurchus, Cairngorm, East Highland

photo: Crofters gathering hay at Persabus, Isle of Islay, Paps of Jura in distance. Argyll & Stirling area

photo: Aerial view of Linlithgow town and loch, Forth & Borders area

Forest and Woodland

Farmland

Urban

photo: Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata) and sedge (Carex sp),Loch Ussie, Near Dingwall, East Highland area
photo: Sea stacks and sandy beach,Traigh Geiraha,(Garry sands) Isle of Lewis, Western Isles area
photo: Aerial view of Loch Fleet

Estuaries

photo: Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), Sumburgh Head, Shetland Isles, Northern Isles area    
   

 

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Mountain

Moorland

Peatland

Forest and Woodland

Farmland

Urban

Freshwater

Coast and Shore

Estuaries

Open sea