Fauna

City Bureau for Physical Planning Zagreb

Ivana Vojnić Rogić

The City’s fauna generally less well-studied than

the flora

the best known groups are land snails, crustaceans, butterflies, fishes, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals

up to this time more than 120 species have been recorded as potentially important for protection:

33 species are threatened on international, European and national levels

87 species are listed in Annex I of the Birds Directive as well as Annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive and some are locally threatened species

The City’s faunathe most threatened:

Fenton's Wood White (Leptidea morsei major - at the European level critically endangered (CR) butterfly

species endangered at national level:

Schreiber's Bat (Miniopterus schreibersi)

two small crustaceans - the Zagreb Niphargid Shrimp (Niphargus elegans zagrebiensis) and Podsused Copepod (Acanthocyclops petkovski)

Others are in either the vulnerable or data deficient categories

Review of native species important for protectionImportant forest and scrub species:

mammals: Barbastelle Bat Bechstein's Bat Greater Mouse-eared Bat Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat Common Dormouse

birds: Honey Buzzard Peregrine Falcon Ural Owl Nightjar Black Woodpecker Grey-headed Woodpecker Red-breasted Flycatcher Collared Flycatcher Red-backed Shrike Penduline Tit Woodlark Barred Warbler

Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat(foto: N. Tvrtković)

Review of native species important for protectionImportant forest and scrub species:

reptiles: Smooth Snake Aesculapian Snake Nose-horned Viper Green Lizard Common Wall Lizard

amphibians: Italian Crested Newt European Tree Frog Yellow-bellied Toad

Green Lizard(foto M. Vuković)

European Tree Frog (foto: Z.Zrnčević)

Review of native species important for protectionImportant forest and scrub species:

insects: Hermit Beetle

European Stag Beetle

Great Capricorn Beetle

Rosalia Longicorn

Fenton's Wood White

Clouded Apollo

Chequered Blue

crustaceans : Pannonian Woodland Shrimp

Rosalia Longicorn

Review of native species important for protectionWet semi-natural grasslands species:

birds: White Stork Corncrake

amphibians: Agile Frog

insects - butterflies: Large Chequered Skipper Large Copper Nickerl's Fritillary Marsh Fritillary

Agile Frog (foto M. Vuković)

Large Copper (foto N. Tvrtković)

birds: White Stork Corncrake

amphibians: Agile Frog

Review of native species important for protection

Dry semi-natural grasslands species: reptiles:

Sand Lizard

insects - butterflies: Ascalaphus Owlfly Swallowtail Southern Festoon Large Blue Green-underside Blue Eastern Baton Blue Chalk-hill Blue

Ascalaphus Owlfly (foto N. Tvrtković)

Green-underside Blue (foto N. Tvrtković)

Review of native species important for protection

Freshwater species: mammals:

Water Shrew

birds: Little Bittern Common Sandpiper Kingfisher Common Tern European Dipper

reptiles: European Pond Terrapin Dice Snake

amphibians: Pool Frog

Kingfisher

European Pond Terrapin

(foto N. Tvrtković)

Review of native species important for protection Freshwater species:

fish: Asp Bitterling Ukrainian Brook Lamprey Danube Gudgeon Vimba Burbot Balkan Loach

insects: Gold-ringed Dragonfly

crayfish: Stone Crayfish European Crayfish Podsused Thermal Waterlouse Podsused Copepod Zagreb Niphargid Shrimp

Stone crayfish (foto N. Tvrtković)

Documented locally extinct native species in Zagreb city area:

mammals: Aurochs Brown Bear Wolf European Beaver

birds: Short-eared Owl Montagu’s Harrier Stone Curlew European Roller Little Tern

amphibians: Fire-bellied Toad Common Spadefoot

fish: Huchen Souffia

insects: Stonefly Isogenus nubecula Black Darter Dragonfly

Invasive alien species introduced in Zagreb city area:

mammals: House Mouse Black and Brown Rat Muskrat Coypu

birds: Collared Dove

reptiles: Red-eared Slider Italian Wall Lizard

fish: Gibel Carp Pumpkinseed Fish

mollusc: Iberian Slug

insects: Oriental Cockroach German Cockroach Pharaoh Ant

Coypu (foto:Z.Zrnčević)

Native species that have colonized the urban areas of Zagreb:

mammals: Greater Horseshoe Bat Lesser Horseshoe Bat Kuhl’s Pipistrelle Geoffroy’s Bat Noctule Bat Alpine Long-eared Bat Stone Marten

birds: Blackbird House

Sparrow Swallow House Martin Hooded Crow Rook Magpie Woodpigeon Common

Kestrel Peregrine

Falcon Peregrine Falcon

Sparrow(foto: Z.Zrnčević)