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How to identify our British Wildlife
A female common crane at the nest with a one day old chick, in Norfolk, UK. © Mike Powles/Getty
Animal Facts

Guide to tautonyms, triple tautonyms, and binomial nomenclature

A female hairy-footed flower bee. © Ian Redding/Getty
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British wildlife in March

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

Dunnock nest with eggs in Norfolk, UK. © David Tipling/Universal Images Group/Getty
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How to identify birds’ eggs

Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) circling over Britain's largest rookery, Norfolk, UK
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Roosting birds to spot this winter and how to identify them

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Amphibians

Bluebell. © Drew Buckley

British wildlife in April

Nuthatch in classic pose during a snow storm in Yorkshire, UK. © Simon Roy

British wildlife in February

Gorse in the snow. © Getty

British wildlife in January

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Birds

A female house sparrow perched on a wire fence. © Gary Chalker/Getty
News

Majority of garden bird species recorded in the Big Garden Birdwatch 2021 suffer decline

Coal tit perched on a twig. © David Waistell/BTO
Birds

Coal tit: how to identify, what they eat, and when they’re seen in gardens

An orca mother and calf in British Columbia, Canada. © Mark Malleson/Getty
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Celebrating mothers in the animal kingdom

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Fish

A mountain hare hunkers down in a snow storm in The Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland. © Lyle McCalmont/Getty
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British wildlife in December

Juvenile hedgehog in autumn, in Dorset. © Colin Varndell
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British wildlife in November

Signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus on the edge of a river/Credit: Getty Images
News

American crayfish trapping fails to control invasive species, finds study

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Insects and Invertebrates

Duke of Burgundy. © Iain H Leach/Butterfly Conservation
News

2020 was a ‘good’ year for butterflies in the UK

Honeybee on a flower. ©  Samuel Moore/Getty
Insects & Invertebrates

Honeybee guide: how they produce honey, why they sting, and a history of beekeeping

Turkish crayfish. © Trevor Renals, via GB NNSS
News

I’m A Celebrity… makers did not hold licence for invasive crayfish species

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Mammals

Lesser horseshoe bat. © Daniel Whitby/Mammal Society
Galleries

Mammal Photographer of the Year 2021

The African black leopard photographed with an infrared-converted DSLR camera trap. This image was captured on the animal trail identified by Steve Carey, the co-owner of Laikipia Wilderness Camp, near Luisa Ancilotto’s house in Laikipia County, Kenya, January 2019. From The Black Leopard: My Quest to Photograph One of Africa’s Most Elusive Big Cats, image copyright © Will Burrard-Lucas.
Galleries

Searching for black leopards

African savanna elephants in Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Northern Kenya. © Robbie Labanowski/Save the Elephants
News

African elephants now listed as Endangered and Critically Endangered

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Reptiles

An almost two metre adult blue racer in Huron-Manistee National Forest. © Jordan Hill

Blue racer snake guide: how to identify, are they venomous, and where they’re found

Bojer's skink is endemic to Mauritius, but while it was once widespread across the islands, it is now critically endangered. © Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

Threatened Mauritian reptiles rescued from disastrous oil spill

Marine iguana in the Galápagos Islands. © Joseph J Orsi

Marine iguana guide: where they’re found, why they’re unique and the threats they face

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