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

Red-eyed tree frog. © Kike Calvo/UIG/Getty

Fungus threatens more amphibians than thought

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

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Birds

Bird of prey stamp collection - goshawk. © Tim Flach/Royal Mail.

Birds of prey stamps released by Royal Mail

Male blackbird. © Ray Kennedy/RSPB

Results from the 2018 Big Garden Birdwatch

White-tailed eagle flying over lake in Germany. © Berndt Fischer/Getty

Licence granted for white-tailed eagle reintroduction

Fish

Largetooth sawfish. © David Morgan

Sawfish of the world

Pregnant reef manta in Cocos Island. (c) Mauricio Hoyos

Reef manta ray recorded for first time in Eastern Pacific

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Kiss of the oceans gallery, by Irene Mendez Cruz

Insects and Invertebrates

Achrioptera maroloko, one of two newly discovered colourful Madagascan species. Maroloko means "colorful" in the Madagasy language. © Dr Frank Glaw.

Two new flamboyant stick insect species discovered

Tachina ursina. © Nick Baldwin

Insects & Invertebrates

Fly of the Month – Tachina ursina

Large blue butterfly. © Gary Chalker/Getty

Butterflies bounce back in summer heatwave

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Mammals

Stalking puma. © Sebastian Kennerknecht/Panthera.

Puma hunting policies in North America challenged

Bornean orangutans in Sabah.

Counting orangutans using star-spotting technology

Taxidermy fox. © RSPCA

Hiding fox too “stuffed” to move

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Reptiles

An artistic representation of Hypsilophodon. © Trustees of the Natural History Museum

Five British dinosaurs you’ve (probably) never heard of

Dr. Phil Manning and Dallas Evans use a pneumatic and chisel to get the jacket ready to flip so they can jacket the underside of the fossil. © The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis

London scientists to go on US Jurassic dinosaur hunt

A male adder warming itself in the spring sunshine. © Sandra Standbridge/Getty

Adders could be facing a risk of extinction across Britain