We’ve put together an ultimate list of over 130 animals that start with U!
This list focuses on vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, & fish) but includes a few invertebrates at the end, like the Urchin!
But first, how many animals to start with you can come up with?
We do the same thing (well, we have some help because we have a lot of books here, but how many animals are on the list?
How Many Animals Start With U on our list?
31 Mammals36 Birds4 Reptiles6 Amphibians54 Fish6 Invertebrates= 137 Animals That Start With the Letter U!
If you want more information about this animal that started with you, you can highlight the name in the list and right-click in your browser.
Here’s a list of my favorite animals to get you started
Urial (wild goat)
Urchin (spiny sea creature)
Umbrellabird (bird with a large crest)
Unicornfish (fish with a long nose)
Uromastyx (spiny lizard)
Uguisu (Japanese nightingale)
Urchins are some of my favorite animals that start with U!
Animals that start with U
Mammals: 31 Animals That Start With U
Animals That Start With U: Uinta Chipmunk
Urial (goat)
Ucayali thorn mouse
Uganda District
Uganda big-toothed shrew
Ugandan shrew
Uinta ground squirrel
Ultimate shrew
Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat
Unalaska collared lemming
Underwood’s bat
Long-tongued Underwood bats
Underwood’s water rat
Ungava collared lemming
Unicolor arboreal rice mouse
Mouse oldfield unicolored
Colorful tree mice
A bat without a tube nose
Ural field mouse
Hamsters are like Urartsk rats
Usambara shrew
Ussuri grinned
Ussuri grinned
Ussuri’s tube-nosed bat
Utah prairie dogs
Birds: 36 Animals That Start With U
Animals That Start With U: Upland Geese
Uguisu
Uganda Woodland Warbler
Ultramarine Flycatcher
Ultramarine Grosbeak
Ultramarine Kingfisher
Ultramarine Lory
Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird
An unadorned flycatcher
Undulated Antpitta
Antshrike Undulated
Undulated Tinamou
Unicolored Jay
Antwren Unicolor
Blackbird Unicoloured
Tapaculo Unicolor
Colorless thrush
Antshrike uniform
Crake uniform
Finch uniform
Treehunter uniform
Upland Antshike
Upland Buzzard
Upland geese
Upland Pipit
Upland Sandpiper
Ural bird
Usambara Akalat
Usambara Weaver
Flycatcher Ussher
Reptiles: 4 animals starting with U
Amphibians: 6 animals starting with U
Ugandan frog claws
Uluguru Blue-bellied Frog
Frog Upland Chorus
Usambara Blue Bellied Frog
Usambara torrent frog
Fish: 55 Animals That Start With U
Uaru Cichlid
Uganda nothobranch
Ulrey tetra
Umbee Cichlid
Umbrella cichlid
Umpomo girl
Umpomo dace
Umpqua squawfish
An uncombed blenny
Undulate painted ray
Undulated moray
Unicolor moray
Unicorn crestfish
Unicorn ice fish
Unicorn leather jacket
The lone unicorn
Bully upland
Upper Grijalva livebearer
Upper Zambesi labeo
Upper Zambesi squeaker
Above the Zambezi nembwe
Upper Zambezi yellowfish
Goby turned upside down
Upside down harptail blenny
Clingfish urchin
Sprat river Uruguay
Uruguay tetra
Ussuri catfish
Ussuri sharpbelly
Usumacinta cichlid
Usumacinta sea catfish
Utah girl
Utah Lake sculpin
Utah bastard
Invertebrates: 6 animals starting from U
Animals That Start With U: Urchin
Urchin
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Hal Brindley
Brindley is an American conservation biologist, wildlife photographer, filmmaker, author, and illustrator living in Asheville, NC.
He studied black-footed cats in Namibia for his master’s research, has traveled to all seven continents, and enjoys cultivating native plants.
See more of his work at Travel for Wildlife, Truly Wild, Our Wild Yard, & Naturalist Studio.
Umbrellabird, Unicorn, Unau, Urchin, Urial.
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