European Hare

Common Name
European Hare
Order
Lagomorpha
Family
Leporidae
Species Name
Lepus europaeus
Status
Introduced; Not Native
States
Connecticut
New York

Distribution

Open woodland, steppe and sub-desert; from southern Sweden and Finland to Britain, throughout Europe (not Iberian Penin, South of Cantabria and the Ebro River, or south of Siena in Italy), to western Siberian lowlands; south to northern Israel, northern S

Notes

IUCN indicates a large intorduced population in Pennsylvania, New York, and north into Canada.