Great crested newt
With its prominent, wavy crest, the great crested newt, also known as the 'warty newt', looks like a mini dinosaur! This protected species favours clean ponds during the breeding season…
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Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
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Great crested grebe
The graceful great crested grebe is a familiar sight on our lakes and reservoirs, and is well-known for its elaborate courtship dance, during which it rises vertically out of the water and shakes…
Get creative with nature
For Week 4 of 30 Days Wild, we're 'Getting creative with nature'
In your neighbourhood
Wherever you live, there are so many weird and wonderful wild creatures to discover.
Make a journey stick
Keep a natural record of your latest adventure!
Get started with your spotter sheets
You can use this tool to create simple nature spotting sheets to print off and use outside.
Make a musical rain stick
Recreate the sound of the rain with your very own instrument!
Contact your MP
By writing to your MP or meeting them in person, you can help them to understand more about a local nature issue you care passionately about.
Greater knapweed
The ragged-edged, purple flower heads of Greater knapweed bloom on sunny chalk grasslands and clifftops, and along woodland rides. They attract clouds of butterflies.
Greater celandine
Greater celandine is a very common plant that spreads easily in the garden, on waste ground and in hedgerows. It is considered a weed, but the small, yellow flowers provide nectar for insects.
Solar powered sea slug
This remarkable creature shows nature’s fantastic complexity!
Greater stitchwort
Star-of-Bethlehem' and 'wedding cakes' are just some of the other names for greater stitchwort. Look for its pretty, star-shaped, white flowers in woodlands and along hedgerows and…