The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!

Our most familiar fern, bracken can be found growing in dense stands on hillsides, moorland, heathland and in woodlands. It is very large and dies back in winter, turning the landscape orangey-…

This black and grey solitary bee takes to the wing in spring, when it can be seen buzzing around burrows in open ground.

Living up to its name, the red-tailed bumblebee is black with a big, red 'tail'.

The wild rock dove is the ancestor to what is probably our most familiar bird - the feral pigeon, which is often found in large numbers in our towns and cities.

The porbeagle shark is a member of the shark family Lamnidae, making it one of the closest living relatives of the great white shark.