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Fauna of the Faroe Islands
The fauna of the Faroe Islands is characterized by the islands' remote location in the North Atlantic Ocean. There are few terrestrial species, but relatively many breeding seabirds and marine animals. Some sub-species and breeds are endemic. All land mammals were introduced by humans.
==Birds==
The bird fauna of the Faroes is dominated by seabirds and birds attracted to open land like heather, probably due to the lack of woodland and other suited habitats. There are special Faroese races of eider, starling, wren, guillemot, and black guillemot.〔() The Faroese Fauna.〕 Puffins (''Fratercula arctica''), razorbills (''Alca torda''), and guillemots (''Uria aalge''), are very common seabirds in Faroe. Gannets (''Sula sula'') are common around the islands, but only breed on Mykines. Black guillemots (''Cepphus grylle''), eiders (''Somateria mollissima'') and shag (''Phalacrocorax aristotelis'') are common around the coast and the fulmars (''Fulmarus glacialis'') which immigrated to the islands in the 19th century have a steadily growing population. There are six species of seagulls (''Larus'') and the storm petrel (''Hydrobates pelagicus'') colony on Nólsoy is the largest in the world.
Inland birds are fewer in numbers. Oyster catcher (''Haematopus ostralegus'') (the national bird), curlew (''Numenius''), common snipe (''Capella gallinago'') and tern (''Sterna'') are common on the heather hills. The Faroese starling (sub-species ''Sturnus vulgaris faroeensis'') is the biggest starling in the world, and is very common in and around human habitation together with the sparrow (''Passer''). In later years they have been joined by blackbirds (''Turdus merula'') which are growing very fast in numbers. Crows (''Corvus cornix'') and the Faroese-Icelandic subspecies of raven (''Corvus corax varius'') are also very common around human habitation. Until the 19th century a special coloured raven, the pied raven was common on the islands. This was not a special race, but a colour variation of the Faroese-Icelandic sub-species. In the same nest, three youngsters could be black while one could be white-speckled. This colour variation was unique to the Faroe Islands, and maybe because of this, the demand from foreign collectors was big for these ravens. This might be a reason why it became extinct; the last white-speckled raven was seen on Nólsoy in 1949.
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