wildlife

Blackbuck pair Antilope cervicapra with male in foreground showing white and dark browm markings and horns, the golden brown felame behind. Cut to white.

Bongo Tragelaphus eurycerus pen and ink quick sketch showing the animal in profile

Pair of male Hares boxing Lepus europaeus both standing upright on grass, quick watercolour sketch

Spruce Bark beetle Ips typographus inset illustration against a background showing maternal and larval galleries in bark

Rosemary beetles on rosemary showing metallic markings, cut to white

Half a barrel adapted to be a pond with water and flowering pond plants in including arrowroot, flowering rush, and spearwort

Distant landscape of hills and fiels with a tree in the midground, in the foreground butterflies such as the ringlet and meadow brown rest on orchids and buttercups

Cross section of an ideal wildlife pond showing frog, water but, aquatic plants, a log pile and watering can, and floating water soldier being visited by a damselfly

Snipe flying across a ride clearing in woodland with forestry behind showing how to manage and harvest trees and related prodcuts such as charcoal, coppicing and timber; a distant pool and alder carr gives way to clear fell forestry on distant hills and patchy clearings; in the foreground wild flowers and butterflies are shown growing […]

Three views of fenland with increasignly complex networks of inter dependent species, culminating in a rich landscape with wild flowers, a hobby hunting dragonfly, and heacy with insect life

Ink drawing showing different trees, vines, and lianas in a tropical African forest such as in Ghana

Wetland chalk meadow with stream running through it, flooded meadow withflowers and wild vegetation on the banks

Wetland landscape with curlew and pearl bordered fritillary in the foreground on emergent vegetation, behind a flooded area of meadow tails into distant hills, cows and swans graze fields and yellow flag, blackberry and alder fill the foreground.

Wetland landscape with a water rail emerging from the fringing vegetation and a cross section of the stream shows fish, aquatic invertebrates, and a blue dragonfly; a frog rests below an orchid and pond skater sit on the water surface

Wetland chalk meadow with stream running through it, flooded meadow withflowers and wild vegetation on the banks and a willow tree leaning across the stream

Ink landscape of a peat bog upland with wading wetland birds including curlew, green plover or peewit, great northern diver, and golden plover in summer plumage all gathered around a shallow tarn or pool

Watercolour reed bed showing the layers of reeds with trees and shrubs behind and distant hills

Landscape of a reed bed with a cross section of the water in the forground and showing fish and amphibians living in the water, along with a close up of some microscopic aquatic invertebrates; in the sky hobby hunt for dragonfly and damselfly and swallows fly; otter, bittern, and water vole hide in the margins […]

Wetland landscape of a rice paddy with a farmer tending the rice plants in the flooded fields and with Cattle egret, White crane, palm trees, and women planting rice in the distance near a hut or shelter, mountains loom up behind the pastoral scene as the crane flies overhead

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 […]

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

Meadow in summer with red kite circling, green woodpecker feeding from distant ant hills, goldfinch on teasels, and a peacock butterfly on a knapweed bloom with a Painted lady on hawkbit. A family cycle past behind.

Oakland landscapw with details of mosses and lickesn and some insects that live in and on the oak trees including beetles and wasps; bird in the background include the nuthatch, pied flycatcher, warbler, and great tit

Ink landscape of the wetlands of the Okavango delta in Botswana showing palm trees, wetlands, and associated wildlife such as hippo, cranes, termite mounds, storks, and crocodile