This beautiful butterfly is one of our rarest, now mostly restricted to the western parts of the UK.

This beautiful beetle only arrived in the UK in 1960s but is now a common sight on garden herbs.

Egyptian geese were introduced to Britain from Africa. They are now widespread in southern England.

Once a rare visitor to the UK, this striking gull is now found nesting here in large colonies.

This beautiful bumblebee favours upland areas, but has declined in recent decades and is now nationally scarce.

This pretty, speckled moth is now a rare sight, found only in a few parts of southern England.

The elephant hawk-moth is a pretty, gold-and-pink moth that can be seen at dusk in gardens, parks, woods and grassy habitats. The caterpillars look like elephant's trunks and have eyespots to…

The Yew is a well-known tree of churchyards, but also grows wild on chalky soils. Yew trees can live for hundreds of years, turning into a maze of hollow wood and fallen trunks beneath dense…