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1. At the top in light yellow, the species' name is shown together with, when applicable, its IUCN code (click on the code and you will be redirected to IUCN's webpage with detailed information about this threatened species) and, if you have ticked the species, a green tick to the right
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Brown Bear
Ursus arctos
   Linnaeus, 1758
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American Black Bear
Ursus americanus		 Brown Bear
Ursus arctos 		Polar Bear
Ursus maritimus
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Eurasian Brown Bear
Ursus arctos arctos
© Bjorn Anderson
 




 
 

Taxonomy and Distribution

Taxa

 Brown Bear Ursus arctos (36083)
 The brown bear currently occurs in Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra (recently reoccupied), Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bhutan (possibly extinct), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic (possibly only vagrants), Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, India, Iraq, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Macedonia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States, and Uzbekistan. The species has become Extinct during past 500 years in Algeria, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, San Marino, Switzerland, and Syria. Extinctions due to human agency have taken place more than 500 years ago in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Jordan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Tunisia, United Kingdom, and the Vatican.
 arctosEurope
 beringianusNative to the Kamchatka Peninsula, Karaginskiy Island, and northward throughout the Koryak Okrug. It is also found in the coastal strip west of the Sea of Okhotsk and east of the coastal mountains as far south as Uda Bay, on the Shantar Islands and the northern Kuril Islands.
 californicusCalifornia; extinct in 1922
 collarisFound in most of Siberia and in northern Mongolia, far northern Xinjiang, and extreme eastern Kazakhstan.
 crowtheriOnce inhabiting the Atlas Mountains and neighboring areas, from Morocco to Libya, the animal is now thought to be extinct.
 horribilisThe current range of the grizzly bear extends from Alaska, south through much of western Canada, and into portions of the northwestern United States including Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming, extending as far south as Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. There may still be a small population in Colorado in the southern San Juan Mountains. Its original range also included much of the Great Plains and the southwestern states, but it has been extirpated in most of those areas.
 isabellinusThe bears are found in the foothills of the Himalaya and northern Pakistan and do not extend past Dachigam and Kashmir.
 lasiotusRussia: Southern Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Maritime Territory, and the Ussuri/Amur river region south of the Stanovoy Range. China: Northeastern Heilongjiang. Japan: Hokkaidō
 middendorffiOccurs on the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago in south-central Alaska.
 pruinosusFound in the eastern Tibetan plateau (China).
 syriacusSyrian brown bears were historically found in Anatolia (Turkey), Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, and parts of Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan. Nowadays extinct in Lebanon, Israel, Syria.

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