Wildlife
Roe deer are one of Britain's native deer species and have become the most widespread. They became largely extinct in the 1700s and were only later reintroduced. Before 1960 they were treated as vermin owing to the damage they cause to the forestry industry. Unlike other deer, they do not live in herds, but are most often seen as solitary individuals or as a family group of a mother and her offspring. Does gives birth to one to three fawns in May or June. Bambi the deer, from the children's books by Felix Salten, was a roe deer.
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The buck stops here
Thetford forest teems with exotic wildlife that's not always easy to spot.
Thetford forest teems with exotic wildlife that's not always easy to spot.
Forest fieldcraft
Get up early, stay downwind and be very, very quiet to see deer and other forest life.
Get up early, stay downwind and be very, very quiet to see deer and other forest life.
Cemetery visitors
An island of calm in a sea of noise attracts some unusual visitors.
An island of calm in a sea of noise attracts some unusual visitors.
Bittersweet tale
How one roe deer's loss can be the natural world's gain.
The bittersweet tale of two roe deer fawns. Find out how one deer's loss can be the natural world's gain.
Hide and seek
A young roe deer hides in the grass while its mother browses the meadow.
Simon watches the young roe deer bond with its mother.
Species range provided by WWF's Wildfinder.
The Roe deer can be found in a number of locations including: Asia, Europe, Mediterranean, Russia, United Kingdom, Wales. Find out more about these places and what else lives there.
The following habitats are found across the Roe deer distribution range. Find out more about these environments, what it takes to live there and what else inhabits them.
Discover what these behaviours are and how different plants and animals use them.
Additional data source: Animal Diversity Web
Least Concern
Population trend: Increasing
Year assessed: 2008
Classified by: IUCN 3.1
The European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the western roe deer, chevreuil or just roe deer, is a Eurasian species of deer. It is relatively small, reddish and grey-brown, and well-adapted to cold environments. Roe deer are widespread in Europe, from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, and from the British Isles to the Caucasus. It is distinct from the somewhat larger Siberian roe deer.
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The Kingcombe Roe Deer In 2010 Springwatch followed Simon King and his team as they visited a family of roe deer in a quiet corner of Kingcombe meadows.
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Garden wildlife
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Oak wood
Farmland
Wildflower meadow
Moorland
Parkland
Broadleaf forest
Coniferous forest
Temperate grassland
Tundra
Urban
Shedding body parts
Camouflage
Acoustic communication
Herbivorous
Maternal care
Polygynous
Social
Adapted to running
Sexual dimorphism
Viviparous