Flora and Fauna Links
I intend to write species profiles on all the plants and animals I can identify and this page will provide links to each profile as it's written. It's in alphabetical order. When I have a more comprehensive list I will try and produce a key of some sort.
Contents
Plants
Water plants
Trees and bushes
Galls
Birds
Amphibians
Mammals
Butterflies and moths
Dragonflies and damselflies
Insects
Beetles
Land snails
Water invertebrates
Plants
Bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
Bittersweet (Solamum dulcamara)
Bramble (Rubus fruticosus)
Broad-leaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius)
Buttercup (Ranunculus sp.)
Common vetch (Vicia sativa)
Cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris)
Creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense)
Cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis)
Daffodil (Narcissus sp.)
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Dog rose (Rosa canina)
Greater stitchwort (Stellaria holostea)
Hedge woundwort (Stachys sylvatica)
Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum)
Ivy (Hedera helix)
Ivy broomrape (Orobanche hederae)
Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
Prickly sow-thistle (Sonchus asper)
Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea)
Ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)
Stitchwort (Stellaria sp.)
Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca)
Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
Yarrow (Achillia)
Water Plants
Fool's-water-cress (Apium nodiflorum)
Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae)
Water forget-me-not (Mysotis scorpioides)
Yellow flag (Iris pseudacorus)
Trees and Bushes
Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)
Galls
Rose bedeguar gall (Diplolepis rosae)
Birds
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus)
Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Canada goose (Branta canadensis)
Carrion crow (Corvus corone)
Fieldfares (Turdus pilaris)
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Great tit (Parus major)
Great white egret (Ardea alba)
Heron (Ardea cinerea)
House martin (Delichon urbicum)
House sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Little egret (Egretta garzetta)
Long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus)
Magpie (Pica pica)
Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
Reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
Sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Shoveller (Anas clypeata)
Skylark (Alauda arvensis)
Song thrush (Turdus philomelos)
Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)
Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Amphibians
Common frog (Rana temporaria)
Mammals
Common shrew (Sorex araneus)
Mole (Talpa europaea)
Butterflies and Moths
Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus)
Gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonus)
Large skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus)
Large white (Pieris brassicae)
Meadow brown (Maniola jurtina)
Painted lady (Vanessa cardui)
Peacock butterfly (Aglais io)
Red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
Satin grass-veneer (Crambus perlella)
Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus)
Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)
Speckled wood (Pararge aegeria)
Dragonflies and Damselflies
Azure damselfly (Coenagrion puella)
Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens)
Blue-tailed damselfly (Ischnura elegans)
Common darter (Sympetrum striolatum)
Migrant hawker (Aeshna mixta)
Southern hawker (Aeshna cyanea)
Variable damselfly (Coenagrion pulchellum)
Insects
Cranefly (Nigrotipula nigra)
Common green grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus)
Beetles
10-spot ladybird (Adalia 10-punctata)
14-spot ladybird (Propylea quattuordecimpunctata)
22-spot ladybird (Psyllobora 22-punctata)
Common red soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)
Green dock beetle (Gastrophysa viridula)
Thick-legged beetle (Oedemera nobilis)
Land Snails
Amber snail (Succinea putris)
Brown-lipped Snail (Cepaea nemoralis)
Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum)
Water invertebrates
Swan mussel (Anodonta cygnea)
Whirligig beetle (Gyrinus substriatus)
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