Fallow Deer - Farmland
Description:Fallow deer is one of the larger deer subspecies in the UK (up to 90cm at shoulder height, weighing up to 93 kgs). Its fur coat has usually a tan colour with white spots on the back and a paler coloured belly. This species may however be also melanistic (having too many dark pigments and through this a darker brown fur), or Leucistic (having too few dark pigments and through this having a white fur coat). This deer subspecies is the only one in the UK with palmated antlers, though younger males (bucks) have still a tine structure and will only gradually grow larger blade-structured antlers over the years while they are maturing.
Life Expectancy:on average up to 16 years
Native/Introduced: Introduced - the fallow deer being in the UK today, were introduced by the Normans from Eastern Mediterranean areas, including Turkey, which has only a small population of maybe up to 130 individuals of this deer subspecies left in a protected area. Fallow deer introduced by the Romans from western Mediterranean areas became extinct.
Habitat:They prefer broadleaf woodland but live also in coniferious woodland and open agricultural land. As most deer subspecies in the UK, fallow deer prefers to feed of grass but will also browse of trees and sablings in winter when food sources are otherwise low.
Distribution in the UK:Widespread across England and Wales.
Status:Least Concern (IUCN Red List), but protected under the Deer Act 1991, the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, the Hunting Act 2004 and the Wild Mammals Protection Act 1995,
Besides no hunting of deer being allowed at night time, there are Closed Seasons (no hunting allowed) for the bucks between 1 May and 31 July (when they cast and rgrow their antlers) and for does between 1 April and 31 October (when they seperate from the bucks to give birth to their fawns and bring these up).
Missing Location Details:In this case, I do not provide the location as wildlife criminals do poach (illegally hunt) deer in the UK, and furthermore, I know farners do not like deer in their crop fields.
Information Source:British Deer Society, IUCN Red List
Life Expectancy:on average up to 16 years
Native/Introduced: Introduced - the fallow deer being in the UK today, were introduced by the Normans from Eastern Mediterranean areas, including Turkey, which has only a small population of maybe up to 130 individuals of this deer subspecies left in a protected area. Fallow deer introduced by the Romans from western Mediterranean areas became extinct.
Habitat:They prefer broadleaf woodland but live also in coniferious woodland and open agricultural land. As most deer subspecies in the UK, fallow deer prefers to feed of grass but will also browse of trees and sablings in winter when food sources are otherwise low.
Distribution in the UK:Widespread across England and Wales.
Status:Least Concern (IUCN Red List), but protected under the Deer Act 1991, the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, the Hunting Act 2004 and the Wild Mammals Protection Act 1995,
Besides no hunting of deer being allowed at night time, there are Closed Seasons (no hunting allowed) for the bucks between 1 May and 31 July (when they cast and rgrow their antlers) and for does between 1 April and 31 October (when they seperate from the bucks to give birth to their fawns and bring these up).
Missing Location Details:In this case, I do not provide the location as wildlife criminals do poach (illegally hunt) deer in the UK, and furthermore, I know farners do not like deer in their crop fields.
Information Source:British Deer Society, IUCN Red List
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