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What are the 5 rarest species in Northern Ireland?

April 26, 2017northern ireland rarest species

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What are the 5 rarest species in Northern Ireland?

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• A. The Fan mussel Atrina fragilis (only one living specimen) a shellfish in our local seas, The Irish whitebeam, a very uncommon tree. The purple saxifrage is a beautiful alpine plant that grows at one site on a sheer cliff along the North coast. The whiskered bat is a very rare mammal which has its only Northern Ireland colony in a Co. Fermanagh Church. One pair of Chough, a member of the crow family which has a red beak and feet nested on sea cliffs on Rathlin Island in 2008.