The black garden ant is the familiar and abundant small ant that lives in gardens, but also turns up indoors searching for sugary food. In summer, winged adults, or 'flying ants', swarm…

A sprawling, spiny evergreen, common juniper is famous for its traditional role in gin-making. Once common on downland, moorland and coastal heathland, it is now much rarer due to habitat loss.…

The pink-footed goose is a winter visitor to the UK, feeding on our wetland and farmland habitats. About 360,000 individuals spend the winter here, making it a really important destination for…

The redshank lives up to its name as it sports distinctive long, bright red legs! It feeds and breeds on marshes, mudflats, mires and saltmarshes. Look out for it posing on a fence post or rock.…

The grayling is one of our largest brown butterflies and a master of disguise - its cryptic colouring helps to camouflage it against bare earth and stones in its coastal habitats and on inland…

This dazzling dragonfly can be seen darting above tree-lined ponds in certain parts of Britain.

This small orange-brown butterfly can be tricky to tell apart from the similar small skipper.

These globe-spanning seabirds can often be seen offshore in autumn, shearing low over the waves.

The caterpillars of this fluffy white moth are best admired from a distance, as their hairs can irritate the skin.

The blackbird of the mountains, ring ouzels can be found breeding on upland moors and rocky crags in summer.

A well known inhabitant of UK seas, common lobsters can reach up to 60cm in length.

Oyster mushrooms are shell shaped fungi that grow in tiers or fabulous clusters on dead trees or stumps. Unlike many fungi, these mushrooms are not seasonal and can be found all year round,…