Roe Deer - Farmland
Description:Roe deer is of a medium-sized built (up to 75cm at shoulder height, weighing up to 25 kgs). Their fur coat has a reddish brown colour in summer and a brownish grey in winter. Unlike other deer subspecies, roe deer has no tail but a dominant white (in summer smaller pale coloured) rump patch. Only the female (doe) has a little tush of hair, which looks similar to a tail. The male (buck) has tine-structured set of antlers with up to only a maximum of three points.
Life Expectancy:on average up to 10 years
Native/Introduced: Native
Habitat:Most commonly at home in woodlands and forests, and here most frequently seen at the edges towards grassland and arable fields.
Distribution in the UK:Widespread across the UK with very few exceptions like eastern parts of Kent and many parts of 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 November and 31 March (when they cast and regrow their antlers - as they mate earlier, antlers are casted and regrown earlier) and for females between 1 April and 31 October (when they seperate from the stags to give birth to their kids 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 10 years
Native/Introduced: Native
Habitat:Most commonly at home in woodlands and forests, and here most frequently seen at the edges towards grassland and arable fields.
Distribution in the UK:Widespread across the UK with very few exceptions like eastern parts of Kent and many parts of 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 November and 31 March (when they cast and regrow their antlers - as they mate earlier, antlers are casted and regrown earlier) and for females between 1 April and 31 October (when they seperate from the stags to give birth to their kids 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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