Animal facts

Animal ID

How to identify our British Wildlife

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How to identify pond wildlife

Eurasian otter © Ed Evans / Getty

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How to tell the difference between an otter and a mink

Brown rat (captive) © 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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How to identify rockpool wildlife

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Amphibians

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

Masked frog (Litoria personata) Kakadu National Park (World Heritage Area), Northern Territory, Australia
Masked frog © Auscape / Getty

Are any animals unable to hear their own calls?

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Birds

Part of Lingham's collection © RSPB

Bird egg collector pleads guilty to five offences

Bull moose in fall. © mtnmichelle/Getty

Meet the cast: characters from BBC’s Autumnwatch New England

The Galapagos penguin is the only species found north of the Equator © Wolfgang Kaehler / Getty

What’s the most northerly penguin?

Fish

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

Seen from below, the white bellies of lemon sharks help them to disappear in bright sunlight - the blue sky in this photo is misleading. From above, their yellow-tinted skin belnds in perfectly with the mangrove's sandy seabed © Shane Gross

The fascinating world of the lemon shark

Insects and Invertebrates

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

Snail. © Alice Fox/Getty

Insects & Invertebrates

What is snail slime?

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Mammals

Grand Title Winner 2018, Animal Portraits: The golden couple. © Marcela van Oosten (The Netherlands)/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Photo Galleries

Winning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018

The Berry Cocktail © Emma Mitchell

How to make a wild berry cocktail, by Emma Mitchell

Walking on the beach in Shetland. © Karen MacKelvie

People & Wildlife

Doctors in Shetland will be prescribing nature to patients

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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

Illustrations by Alan Batley

How to make a reptile rockery