Perch

Name: Perch

Scientific name: Perca fluviatilis

Category: Fish

Nature Stars: 60

What are nature stars?

About: A medium sized fish, up to 40cm long. A 'high' fish, with a characteristic humped shape. A predator, Perch feed on invertebrates, crayfish and other fish. Lives in large ponds, lakes, reservoirs and lowland rivers.

How to identify: A greenish fish with dark tiger stripes, a large spiny dorsal fin and red pectoral and anal fins and tail.

Where: Found throughout the country, although rarer in north of Scotland.

Natural Superpowers

• Predator: 80
• Agility: 60
• Rarity: 50
• Cute factor: 20
• Traveller: 50

Fantastic fact: Females may lay up to 300,000 eggs, in long threads which they twist around plants, twigs and stones.

Photograph credit: Michel Roggo/naturepl