Surveys

At about the size and weight of a pygmy shrew, the stag beetle, Lucanus cervus, has few rivals for the title of Europe’s biggest beetle. From the tip of their …

For those of us of a certain latitude (north of 23.5 degrees North or south of the same number of degrees South), our annual trip round the Sun is a …

Wildlife charity needs as many citizen scientists as possible to record mammal sightings in gardens, parks, riverbanks and churchyards. Hundreds of volunteers across the UK will be looking in their …

You and I are simians, the family of primates that includes monkeys and apes, and like all simians, we sit on a branch of the mammal family tree.  As such, …

Over 25 years of citizen science data provide exceptional resource for flagship species Data from a long-running citizen science survey is being used in the first ever national analysis of …

Outside your window, there are some ferocious predators: from insects to insectivores, and caterpillars to cats, fierce carnivores prowl around every corner. A lot of wild mammals, although not strictly …

Charity asks for help recording wildlife in gardens, parks and other urban green spaces Volunteers across the UK are being asked to become ‘wildlife detectives’ this spring by searching their …

Road casualties tell us something about the living You might think a field guide to identifying ‘roadkill’ was unnecessarily macabre, but as Roger Knutson explains in his 1987 book, Flattened …

Charity asks for help recording endangered wildlife in gardens, parks and on local riverbanks Volunteers across the UK are being asked to search their gardens, local green spaces or riverbanks …

‘A common pipistrelle can eat over 3,000 tiny insects in a single night.’ It’s a stat that gets repeated a lot. It’s a common sight on summer evenings, a little …

The National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme (NHMP) is an exciting new project aiming to calculate robust population estimates for hedgehogs. The project officially launched at the end of March 2024 and …

The first mammals made an appearance around the start of the dinosaurs’ heyday, 200 million years ago. Then (as now), most dinosaurs were diurnal (active during the day) and keeping …