Mammal watching in Romania

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If you are into mammal watching then Romania is the wright place for you. At the moment Romania holds by far the largest number of large carnivores in Europe – the Brown Bear, the Wolf and the Linx.

So if you plan a mammal watching holiday in Romania take a look at the species below. You can also find some statistics about the status of the large carnivores in Romania.

You can download some mammal check lists for your mammal watching trip by clicking on the links found at the left or in the main menu. The mammal lists are available in English and Latin. The lists are printable so when you come to Romania you can start ticking…

• The Mammals of Romania
• Checklist – Mammals of Romania

Mammals of Romania

European Brown Bear	Wolf	Fox
Ursus arctos	Lupus europaeus	Canis vulpes
Population: 6.500	Population: 3000	Population: 20.000
European Polecat	Hermelinr	European Mink
Mustela putorius	Mustela nivalis	Mustela lutreola
Population: 6500	Population: 6500	Population: 6500
Wild Cat	Racoon Dog	Mosk Rat
Felis silvestris	Nyctereutes procyonoides	Ondata zibethica
Edible Dormouse	Roe Deer	Alpine Chamois
Glis glis	Capreolus capreolus	Rupicapra rupicapra
European Suslik	Brown Hare	Wilde Boar
Citelus citelus	Lepus europaeus	Sus scrosfa

The mammals of Romania End of Table

Click here- Mammals of Romania List to download a PDF list of The Mammals of Romania. You will need Adobe Acrobat to open the files. You can download it at the following link:

The Mammals of Romania

The Mammals of Romania - Name list - English - Latin

	English	Latin
1	East European Hedgehog	Erinaceus concolor
2	Bicoloured White-toothed Shrew	Crocidura leucodon
3	Lesser White-toothed Shrew	Crocidura suaveolens
4	Mediterranean Water Shrew Southern Water	Neomys anomalus
5	Northern (Eurasian) Water Shrew	Neomys fodiens
6	Common Shrew	Sorex araneus
7	Pgymy (Lesser) Shrew	Sorex minutus
8	European Mole	Talpa europaea
9	Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat	Rhinolophus euryale
10	Greater Horseshoe Bat	Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
11	Lesser Horseshoe Bat	Rhinolophus hipposideros
12	Mehely's Horseshoe Bat	Rhinolophus mehelyi
13	Barbastelle Bat	Barbastella barbastellus
14	Serotine Bat	Eptesicus capensis
15	Northern Bat (Nilsson's Serotine)	Eptesicus nilssoni
16	Bechstein's Bat	Myotis bechsteini
17	Lesser Mouse-eared Bat	Myotis blythii
18	Pond Bat	Myotis dasycneme
19	Daubenton's (Water) Bat	Myotis daubentoni
20	Geoffroy's Bat	Myotis emarginatus
21	Greater Mouse-eared Bat	Myotis myotis
22	Whiskered Bat	Myotis mystacinus
23	Natterer's Bat	Myotis nattereri
24	Leisler's Bat	Nyctalus leisleri
25	Noctule Bat	Nyctalus noctula
26	Nathusius' Pipistrelle	Pipistrellus nathusii
27	Pipistrelle	Pipistrellus pipistrellus
28	Brown Long-eared Bat	Plecotus auritus
29	Grey (Northern) Long-eared Bat	Plecotus austriacus
30	Parti-colored Bat	Vespertilio murinus
31	Schreiber's Long-fingered Bat	Miniopterus schreibersi
32	Golden (Common) Jackal	Canis aureus
33	Gray Wolf	Canis lupus
34	Raccoon Dog	Nyctereutes procyonoides
35	Red Fox	Vulpes vulpes
36	Eurasian Lynx	Lynx lynx
37	European Otter	Lutra lutra
38	Eurasian Badger	Meles meles
39	Beech Marten	Martes foina
40	Pine Marten	Martes martes
41	Stoat, Ermine, Short-tailed Weasel	Mustela erminea
42	Steppe Polecat	Mustela eversmannii
43	European Mink	Mustela lutreola
44	Least Weasel	Mustela nivalis
45	Western Polecat	Mustela putorius
46	Marbled Polecat	Vormela peregusna
47	Brown (Grizzly) Bear	Ursus arctos
48	Common (Saddleback) Dolphin	Delphinus delphis
49	Striped Dolphin	Stenella coeruleoalba
50	Bottlenose Dolphin	Tursiops truncatus
51	Harbor Porpoise	Phocoena phocoena
52	Wild Boar, Pig, Hog	Sus scrofa
53	Red Deer, Elk, Hangul, Maral, Wapiti	Cervus elaphus
54	Fallow Deer	Cervus dama
55	European Roe Deer	Capreolus capreolus
56	Chamois	Rupicapra rupicapra
57	Eurasian Red (European Tree) Squirrel	Sciurus vulgaris
58	European Suslik	Spermophilus citellus
59	Spotted Suslik	Spermophilus suslicus
60	Southern Birch Mouse	Sicista subtilis
61	Iberian Water Vole	Arvicola sapidus
62	Snow Vole	Chionomys nivalis
63	Bank Vole	Clethrionomys glareolus
64	Field Vole	Microtus agrestis
65	Common Vole	Microtus arvalis
66	Sibling Vole	Microtus rossiaemeridionalis
67	Muskrat	Ondatra zibethicus
68	Migratory Hamster	Cricetulus migratorius
69	Black-bellied Hamster	Cricetus cricetus
70	Romanian Hamster	Mesocricetus newtoni
71	Striped Field Mouse	Apodemus agrarius
72	Yellow-necked Field Mouse	Apodemus flavicollis
73	Wood (Long-tailed Field) Mouse	Apodemus sylvaticus
74	Eurasian Harvest Mouse	Micromys minutus
75	House Mouse	Mus musculus
76	Algerian Mouse	Mus spretus
77	Norway (Brown) Rat	Rattus norvegicus
78	Black Rat	Rattus rattus
79	Palestine Mole-rat	Nannospalax leucodon
80	Greater Mole Rat	Spalax microphthalmus
81	Forest Dormouse	Dryomys nitedula
82	Garden Dormouse	Eliomys quercinus
83	Hazel (Common) Dormouse	Muscardinus avellanarius
84	Fat Dormouse	Myoxus glis
85	Brown (European) Hare	Lepus europaeus
86	domestic cat (feral)	Felis silvestris