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Wildlife Explorer

Silver-studded Blue butterfly

Invertebrates

Mountain hare

Mammals

Velvet Swimming Crab

Marine

Puffins on cliff

Birds

Adder

Reptiles

Silver Birch

Trees and shrubs

Sphagnum Moss

Mosses and liverworts

Common toad

Amphibians

Cock's-foot

Grasses, sedges and rushes

Oak Marble Gall Wasp

Galls

Wood Avens

Wildflowers

Maidenhair Spleenwort

Ferns and horsetails

Three-spined Stickleback

Freshwater fish

Porcelain Fungus

Fungi

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