Capreolus capreolus - #4667
Western Roe Deer
Wild male in modified habitat (corn field). Also as European Roe Deer.
Geographic Distribution
Europe (excluding Corsica, Ireland, Sardinia, and Sicily) to W Russia and Ukraine, Turkey, Caucasus region, NW Syria, N Iraq, N Iran; extinct in Lebanon and Israel; Protoneolithic record from Jordan (Jericho).
Order/Family
Cervidae
Genus
Capreolus
Specific Epithet
capreolus
Image Location
Slovenia, 23 km E. of Kamnik (or 36 km NE of Ljubljana) at 46° 13.5' N, 14° 54.5 E
Image Date
26 September 2017
Photographer
LE Harding