Talk:Fauna of Scotland

Fauna of Scotland is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on July 6, 2009.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 12, 2007	WikiProject peer review	Reviewed
March 17, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
August 24, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
September 11, 2008	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 23, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the fauna of Scotland* includes almost half of the EU’s breeding seabirds, but only one endemic vertebrate species, and that although a population of Wild Cats (*pictured) remains, many of the larger mammals were hunted to extinction in historic times?
Current status: Featured article

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Biota of Great Britain and Ireland (inactive)

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