The kestrel is a familiar sight hovering over the side of the road, looking out for its favourite food: small mammals like field voles. It prefers open habitats like grassland, farmland and…

Although they might not look it, sea cucumbers like this one belong to the Echinoderm group and are therefore closely related to starfish and sea urchins

Fel mae ei enw'n awgrymu, mae’r goron borffor yn ffwng coch llachar, siâp cwpan. Mae'n eang ei ddosbarthiad, ond yn brin, a gellir ei ddarganfod ar frigau a changhennau sydd wedi syrthio…

The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!

The chestnut-brown bank vole is our smallest vole and can be found in hedgerows, woodlands, parks and gardens. It is ideal prey for owls, weasels and kestrels.

With a torpedo-shaped body and long, narrow wings, the privet hawk-moth is a striking garden visitor. But the caterpillars really stand out: lime-green, with purple streaks and a black hook at the…

Familiar as the bristly plant that easily hooks on to our clothing as we walk through the countryside or do the gardening, cleavers uses its hooks to help it climb and to disperse its seeds.

This bog-loving butterfly is mostly found in the north of the UK, where it takes to the wing in summer.

This streaky brown bird is a summer visitor to Britain, favouring open woodlands in the north and west.