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Priority Species, Socc & Designated Sites Priority Species, SoCC & Designated Sites Vertebrates & Invertebrates NB: Latin name used for species without a common name Site Priority Species/Species of Conservation Concern Vertebrates Invertebrates Crustacean Insect/Worm Mollusc Sponge Tunicate/ Cnidarian Echinoderm Mammal Fish Bird Bryozoan Antrim Hills Curlew Hen Harrier Merlin Ballymaclary Northern Colletes Banagher Glen Red Squirrel Peregrine Meadow pipit Redstart Willow warbler Bann Estuary European Black-tailed Roseate Tern Sand martin Circular Crab Narrow Bordered Golden Otter Godwit Skylark Sandwich Tern Bee Hawk Moth Mussel Common Scoter Tree Sparrow Shelduck Wall Brown Nudibranch Curlew Dunlin Teal Northern Colletes Mussel Lapwing Golden Plover Wigeon Rove Beetle Linnet Greylag Goose Reed Bunting Breen Wood Red Squirrel Redstart Carn/ Red Grouse Whorl Snail Glenshane Pass Carrick-a-rede Twite Fulmar Razorbill Black-legged Guillemot Kittiwake Creighton’s Irish Damselfly Wood Green Hairstreak Dunloy Bog Common Snipe Garron Plateau Irish Hare Curlew Skylark Merlin Crab Whorl Snail European Hen Harrier Golden Plover Otter Red Grouse Dunlin Giant’s Irish Hare Black Guillemot Grasshopper Shag Cranefly Narrow- Causeway & Eider Warbler Stonechat mouthed Dunseverick Fulmar Oystercatcher whorl snail Peregrine Glenarm Wood Red Squirrel Common Song Thrush Spotted Bullfinch Flycatcher Glenariff Glen Red Squirrel Glen Burn Willow warbler Glenoe Red Squirrel Ashwood Larne Lough European European Light-bellied Black Guillemot Goldeneye Golden Otter Smelt Brent Geese Black Headed Gull Lesser Black- Mussel Redshank Common Gull backed Gull Roseate Tern Common Tern Mediterranean Gull 74 Red-breasted merganser Sandwich Tern Shelduck Lough Foyle European Allis Shad Black-tailed Bar-tailed Godwit Grey Plover Golden Otter European Godwit Bewick’s Swan Knot Mussel Smelt Common Scoter Common Snipe Mediterranean Nudibranch Twaite Corncrake Dunlin Gull Mussel Shad Curlew Eider Mute Swan Atlantic Lapwing Golden Plover Oystercatcher Salmon Light-bellied Great-crested grebe Pintail Brent Geese Great-northern diver Red-breasted Redshank Greylag Goose merganser Reed Bunting Red-throated Redshank diver Tree Sparrow Shelduck Twite Teal Whooper Swan Wigeon Lough Beg Black-tailed Godwit Nine-striped Diving Beetle Water Boatman Lough Neagh & Irish Hare Barn Owl Bewick’s Swan Greylag Goose Water Boatman Lough Beg Common Scoter Black Headed Gull Lesser Black- Corncrake Common Gull backed Gull Curlew Common Snipe Mute Swan Lapwing Common Tern Pintail Light-bellied Cormorant Pochard Brent Geese Coot Scaup Linnet Gadwall Shelduck Tree Sparrow Garganey Shoveler Redshank Goldeneye Teal Yellow-hammer Golden Plover Tufted Duck Great-crested grebe Whooper Swan Wigeon Magilligan Common Scoter Black Guillemot Meadow pipit Northern Colletes Starling Great northern diver Red-throated Marsh Fritillary Tree Sparrow diver Rove Beetle Scarce & Gold Crimson Moth Small Eggar Honeycomb Worm North Antrim Northern Colletes Narrow- Coast mouthed whorl snail Portmuck Black-legged Fulmar Puffin kittiwake Guillemot Razorbill Portstewart Wood Tiger Strand Ramore Head Common Herring Gull Eider Razorbill Common Iophon ingalli Lace Cora Northern Starfish & The Skerries Seal Black Guillemot Fulmar Shelduck Lobster (hyndmani) Rose Corall Black-legged Lesser Black- kittiwake backed Gull 75 Rathlin Island Chough Common Gull Peregrine Circular Crab Bordered Grey Egg Cowrie Clathria barleei Sea Squirts: Goosefoot Corncrake Eider Puffin Crab The Confused Microciona Archidistoma Cerianthid Starfish Herring Gull Fulmar Razorbill Crawfish Square-spot dart elliptichela aggregatum, Anemone Northern Starfish Ring Ouzel Guillemot Shag Hermit Crab Segmented Hymerhabdia Boltenia Diphasia alata Purple Sunstar Sandstar Starling Lesser Black- Rugose Squat Worm typical echinata D.nigra Twite backed Gull Lobster Iophon ingalli Halecium Bar-tailed Godwit Common (hyndmani) Bryozoan: Small Cushion plumosum Black Guillemot Lobster Mycale lingua Rose Coral Star Lytocarpia Black-legged Masked Crab Biemna Crimson Cushion Star kittiwake variantia myriophyllum Starfish (Luidia Myxilla cf. Southern Cup sarsi) rosacea Coral Plocamiancora Slender Sea arndti Pen Spongionella Yellow Cluster pulchella Anemone Stelletta grubii Imperial Axinella Anemone dissimilis Pink Sea Stryphnus ponderosus Fingers Sea Anemone Tamarisca tamarisca White Cluster Anemone Rathlin Island Fulmar Puffin Razorbill Fan Mussel Coast Peregrine River Roe & European Atlantic tributaries Otter Salmon Runkerry Fulmar Northern Colletes Scawt Hill Peregrine Sheep Island Herring Gull Cormorant Lesser Black- Stryphnus Black Guillemot Fulmar backed Gull ponderosus Black-legged Guillemot Razorbill kittiwake Straidkilly Red Squirrel Swan Island`` Roseate Tern Common Tern Sandwich Black Headed Tern Gull Tievebulliagh Peregrine The Umbra Northern Colletes Pretty Pinion Wood Tiger White Park Bay Eider House martin Sand martin Northern Colletes Fulmar Oystercatcher Solitary Bee Grasshopper Ringed Plover warbler White Rocks Black Guillemot Fulmar 76 Priority Species, SoCC & Designated Sites Plants & Fungi Site Priority Species/Species of Conservation Concern Fungi Vascular Plant Moss Liverwort Lichen Algae Antrim Hills Irish Lady’s Tresses Ballymaclary Marsh helleborine Fir Tamarisk-Moss Lesser Tamarisk-Moss Petalwort Prickly Tamarisk-Moss Large Hook- Moss Wrinkled-leaved Feather Moss Amblyodon dealbatus Banagher Glen Anastrophyllum hellerianum Micarea hedlundii Bann Estuary Dwarf spike rush Scots Lovage Spring Vetch Seaside Centuary Binevenagh Big Blue Pinkgill Common Juniper Pendulous Wing Moss Blushing Waxcap Dark Purple Earthtongue Olive Earthtongue Pink Waxcap Breen Wood Micarea hedlundii Carrick-a-rede Scots Lovage Cleggan Valley Zoned Tooth ECOS Irish Lady’s Tresses Feystown Wood Crane’s bill Garron Plateau Marsh Honey Fungus Few flowered Yellow Marsh Narrow-leaved Maërl sedge Saxifrage Marsh-orchid Irish Lady’s Alpine Meadow Tall bog- Tresses Rue sedge Parsley Fern Bog Orchid Serrated Wintergreen Giant’s Heath Pearlwort Causeway & Irish Lady’s Tresses Dunseverick Oysterplant Scots Lovage Glenariff Tall bog-sedge Ragged Notchwort Glenarm Wood Dark leaved Willow Wood Crane’s bill Dumortier’s Liverwort Biatora epixanthoides Glen Burn Small Cow Wheat Gortnagory Irish Lady’s Tresses Grangemore Shepherd’’s Cress Smooth Cat’s Ear Larne Lough Spiral Tasselweed 77 Lemnalary Great Burnet Lough Foyle Spiral Tasselweed Lough Neagh & Eight-stamened Waterwort Lesser Tamarisk-Moss Wrinkled-leaved Feather Lough Beg Chalk-Hook Moss Moss Lough Beg Irish Lady’s Tresses Pennyroyal Narrow Small-reed Magilligan Big Blue Pinkgill Common Juniper Marsh helleborine Chalk-Hook Moss Wrinkled-leaved Petalwort Grey Waxcap Smooth Cat’s Ear Seaside Centuary Large Hook Moss Feather Moss Spring Vetch Lesser Tamarisk-Moss Magilligan Seaside Centuary Point North Antrim Common Juniper Irish Lady’s Tresses Coast Scots Lovage Rathlin Island Common Juniper Brown Algae: Heath Pealrlwort Desmarestia Oyster Plant duesnayi Scots Lovage Red Algae: Atractophora hypnoides Red Algae: Schmitzia hiscockiana Maërl Rathlin Island Marsh helleborine Ballycarry Rathlin Island Dark Purple Earthtongue Kebble Olive Earthtongue Pink Waxcap Rathlin Island Common Juniper Coast Oysterplant Scots Lovage Runkerry Chaffweed Straidkilly Common Juniper Intermediate Wintergreen Yellow Birds’ Nest The Umbra Marsh helleborine Downy Veilwort White Park Bay Meadow Crane’s bill Small White Orchid Scottish Scurvy Grass 78 Northern Ireland Priority Species & Species of Conservation Concern * UK Priority Species Priority Species SoCC SPECIES CONSERVATION VALUE NORTHERN IRELAND STATUS THREATS/REASONS LOCATION(S) FURTHER INFORMATION FOR DECLINE MAMMALS Irish Hare ‘Internationally Important’ Irish Red Genetically distinct sub-species of Mountain Changes in farming Garron Plateau Northern Ireland’s Priority Species & Species of Conservation Concern: Lepus timidus http://www.habitas.org.uk/priority/species.asp?item=42516 Data Book Species. Hare Lepus timidus. Endemic to Ireland practices & physical (SAC, ASSI, hibernicus Listed in Annex V(a) of the EC Population declined by 25% over last 25 disturbances: farm Ramsar) Northern Ireland Species Action Plan (2000): Habitats Directive years. machinery, high http://www.ni-environment.gov.uk/speciesactionplans.pdf Limited protection under the Games Quercus NI Irish Hare Survey 2007: 247 livestock stocking Giant’s All Ireland Species Action Plan: Preservation Act (NI) 1928 hares recorded, estimated population of Decreased variety of Causeway & http://www.ni-environment.gov.uk/allirelandirishharesapnov05.pdf Protected under Schedule 6 of the 57,100 hares grasses grown on Dunseverick Wildlife (NI) Order 1985 Quercus NI Irish Hare Survey 2008: 187 farmland (WHS, ASSI, Quercus (2008) Northern Ireland Hare Survey: hares recorded, estimated population of Loss of daytime refuge NNR) http://www.ni-environment.gov.uk/northernirelandharesurvey2008.pdf 40,500 hares sites, particularly high Quercus (2009) Northern Ireland Hare Survey: Quercus NI Irish Hare Survey 2009: 98 hares quality hedgerows & Lough Neagh & http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/Quercus/Filestore/Filetoupload,163471,en.pdf recorded, estimated population of 27,400 rushes Lough Beg hares with: Illegal coursing, over- (SPA, Ramsar) Northern Ireland’s Mammals, Amphibians & Reptiles: http://www.habitas.org.uk/nimars/ - Co. Antrim: 4,500 hares (estimated) hunting - Co. L’derry: 1,100 hares (estimated) Direct grazing Hare Preservation Trust: http://www.hare-preservation-trust.co.uk/irish.html
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