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Rye grass Lolium perenne and individual spikelet

Oat grass Avena ludoviciana with individual spikelet

Mountain pansy Viola lutea with several flowers and showing the different leaf shapes

Mountain pansy Viola lutea with a dales landscape behind

Harebell Campanula rotundifolia with lonf and round leaves on show

Harebell Campanula rotundifolia showing linear and round leaves

Dwarf Gorse Ulex minor with details of individual flower and leaves on stem

Crested hair grass Koeleria macrantha clump and roots and flowers in early and mature stages. Individual spikelet, glume and ligule detail

Common reed Phragmites australis growing from rhizome with individual spikelet detail and ligule of hairs

Red deer Cervus elaphus buck with antlers with inset of doe head, both in profile, cut to whtie

Mara Dolichotis patagonum sitting and cut to white, three quarters view

Bennetts Wallaby macropus rufogriseus showing long tail and dark paws, in profile, turning slightly to the viewer

Barasingha Rucervus duvaucelii cutr to white looking over its shoulder showing antlers and pelt

Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea

View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]

Landscape showing distant valley with meadow land near to, wild flowers in the foreground include birds foot trefoil, harebell, tormentil, black knapweed and grasses; male and female blue butterflies rest and flutter around these flowers

Heath landscape based around heather and gorse with a distant sea and town; animals shown include rabbits, short eared owl, Stonechat, Sand lizard, blue butterfly, Adder, and Dartford warbler

Landscape of fields speckled with buttercups and grazing herds of sheep and cows, in the foreground there are shrubs then wild flower patches which provide cover for grey partridge, gatekeeper burtterflies, seven spot burnet moth, adonis blue butterfly, green woodpecker, hoverfly, bees, tiger beetle, and oil beetle on bare soil. WIld flowers shown include meadow […]

Arable landscape showing how to encourage wildlife in a farming environment, including wild flower margins, skylark plots, leaving stubble, encouraging hedgerows. Species shown include marbled white butterfly, yellow hammer, green plover, lark, collared dove, knapweed, clover, ox eye daisy and blue butterflies behind a gate

Mute swan Cygnus olor standing on one grey leg and clearly showing its orange beak