Hart (deer) Hart (deer) Hart is an archaic word for "stag" (from Old English "heorot", "deer" – compare with modern Dutch "hert", medieval French "hart", German "Hirsch" and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish "hjort", also "deer"). Specifically, "hart" was used in medieval times to describe a red deer stag more than five years old. In medieval hunting terms, a stag in its first year was called a "calf" or "calfe", in its second a "brocket", in its third a "spayed", "spade", or "spayard", in its fourth a "staggerd" or "staggard", and in its fifth a "stag", or a "great stag". To be a "hart" was its
Corsican red deer Reintroduction could finally begin in 1998, and as of 2007, the Corsican population was about 250 individuals with a total of about 1,000 for the subspecies which has therefore been downgraded to near threatened on the IUCN Red List. Corsican red deer Corsican red deer ("Cervus elaphus corsicanus" or "Cervus corsicanus"), also known simply as Corsican or Sardinian deer, is a subspecies of the red deer ("Cervus elaphus"), endemic to the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia (Italy) and Corsica (France). The Corsican deer is smaller than most of the 16 subspecies of red deer; has shorter legs (possibly to better scramble