Animal facts

Animal ID

How to identify our British Wildlife

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Identify Wildlife

How to identify animal droppings

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How to identify pond wildlife

Eurasian otter © Ed Evans / Getty

Identify Wildlife

How to tell the difference between an otter and a mink

Brown rat. © Mike Lane/Getty

Identify Wildlife

How to tell the difference between a brown rat and a water vole

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How to identify slugs and snails

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Identify Wildlife

How to identify birds on the move in autumn

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Amphibians

The Mount Fansipan horned frog Megophrys fansipanesis. © Ben Tapley/ZSL

Two newly discovered frogs could already be endangered

Fire salamanders in one monitored population have declined by 99 per cent due to the Bsal infection © B. Tapley / ZSL

Concern for European amphibians as deadly fungus found in private collections

The Queen Alexandra's birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) is the largest butterfly in the world with a wingspan of 25 cm, and was reassessed for the latest IUCN Red List update © Mark Joy

IUCN Red List update: how different species have fared

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Birds

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A new dawn for the wildlife of Redonda, by Ed Marshall

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People & Wildlife

What’s it like to be world birder?

A whimbrel on Shetland. © Arterra/UIG/Getty

Identify Wildlife

Identifying curlews and whimbrels

Fish

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Kiss of the oceans gallery, by Irene Mendez Cruz

Basking shark behaviours are being studied by scientists © Alex Mustard

Amazing new footage shows basking sharks being sociable in Scottish waters

A juvenile angelshark © Michael Sealey

A new project is launched to study angelsharks

Insects and Invertebrates

Papilio natewa. © Greg Kerr

New species of butterfly discovered in Fiji

Females glow-worm © Ian Redding/Getty

Insects & Invertebrates

Do street lights interfere with glow-worms?

Adult tansy beetle at WWT Welney © Andy Brown

Insects & Invertebrates

Endangered beetle recorded in a new county

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Mammals

Grizzly Bear Cubs and Me. © Anwar Mamon

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Elasmotherium sibiricum. © W. S. Van der Merwe

‘Siberian unicorn’ lived alongside modern humans

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Reptiles

The coral reef system is home to a wide variety of wildlife © Auscape / UIG / Getty

Why this lizard sticks its tongue out at predators

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Turtle tourist traps

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