Animal facts

Animal ID

How to identify our British Wildlife

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Wildlife Gardening

How to identify and attract pollinators to your garden

Starling egg illustration © Mike Langman

Identify Wildlife

How to identify birds’ eggs

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

Identify Wildlife

How to identify animal droppings

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How well do you know your UK deer species?

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Identify Wildlife

How to identify pond wildlife

More Animal ID Tips

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Amphibians

Painted lady butterfly. © Getty

British wildlife in July

European turtle dove drinking at water's edge in Spain. © Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty

British wildlife in May

Young European rabbit. © Andy Rouse/Nature Picture Library/Getty

British wildlife in April

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Birds

Adult Barn Swallow in Flight, Castilla y Leon, Spain/Credit: Getty Images

Swallow guide: migration, nesting and where to see

Little tern in Norfolk, UK. © Mike Powles/Getty

Which birds gained the most from Britain’s lockdown?

Island scrub jay. © Chuck Graham

Oak woodlands are being restored by island scrub jays

Fish

Basking shark swimming underwater in Baltimore, Cork, Ireland. © George Karbus Photography/Getty

Basking shark guide: how big they are, what they eat, and why they’re endangered

Giant Manta ray at a cleaning station in the Pacific. © Luis Javier Sandoval/VW Pics/UIG/Getty.

Manta ray guide: how to identify, diet and where they live

A spawning female Chinook salmon in Alaska.

81 dangerous substances found in salmon caught in Seattle

Insects and Invertebrates

Caterpillar. © Wayne Kliewer

New invertebrate photography competition launched

Garden cross spider on its web, UK. © Olivier Roland/EyeEm/Getty

Insects & Invertebrates

Why do spiders eat their own webs?

Brown hairstreak butterfly at Alners Gorse, Dorset, UK. © Megan Shersby

Insects & Invertebrates

What’s the insect equivalent of blood?

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Mammals

Mary the sun bear and conservationist Giles Clark.

Interview with Bears about the House presenter Giles Clark

ary the sun bear very happy on Matt Hunt’s lap.

Behind the Scenes: filming Bears about the House

Bottlenose dolphin leaping in the air in the Moray Firth, Scotland, UK. © Getty

Research into ‘pingers’ to stop cetacean bycatch shows they are effective

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Reptiles

Thrift near Porthleven In Cornwall, UK. © Education Images/Universal Images/Getty

British wildlife in June

A male sand lizard. © Alfred Trunk/McPhoto/ullstein bild/Getty

Sand lizard guide: how to identify, where they’re found and the threats they face

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Largest number of baby Siamese crocodiles spotted by conservationists in Cambodia