Animal facts

Animal ID

How to identify our British Wildlife

Red fox standing in the garden with flowers near the house in a suburb of London. © DG Wildlife/Getty

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How to identify animal droppings

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How to identify pond wildlife

Eurasian otter. © Ed Evans/Getty

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Mink or otter? How to tell the difference

Brown rat. © Mike Lane/Getty

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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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How to identify birds on the move in autumn

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Amphibians

Frog with frogspawn. © Richard Warner/EyeEm/Getty

How to rear froglets in your home

Romeo. © Robin Moore, Global Wildlife Conservation

Romeo the lonely frog gets his Juliet thanks to expedition

Reticulated siren. © Pierson Hill

Mysterious giant US salamander finally identified

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Birds

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Reader Holidays

Birdwatching in southern Spain

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People & Wildlife

Volunteering interview: helping Scottish puffins

An Indian yellow-nosed albatross. © JJ Harrison/Wikimedia/Creative Commons

Ecologists develop vaccine to save Endangered albatrosses

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

Conservationists plant elm trees for rare butterflies

Winter gnats. © Buglife

Insects & Invertebrates

Fly on the month – winter gnats

Harlequin ladybirds emerging on a sunny spring day in the UK. © Ian Redding/Getty

Insects & Invertebrates

Truth or fiction: we should be scared of harlequin ladybirds

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Mammals

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People & Wildlife

Writer Michael Morpurgo on why orangutans are special

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Video of rare and elusive ocelot in Arizona

Barbary macaques. © Getty

Reducing dog attacks on Barbary macaques

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Reptiles

Land iguanas are an endemic species to the Galápagos Islands. © Island Conservation

Iguanas reintroduced to island after 180 years absence

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

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