Species with a conservation status similar to the Silver-spotted skipper Results 1 - 20
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Glutinous snail (Myxas glutinosa)
The glutinous snail has a translucent glossy shell, which is very fragile and amber in colour. The aperture (opening) is relativel...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Pink sea fan (Eunicella verrucosa)
Pink sea fans are formed from a colony of tiny polyps; they may be a deep pink to white in colour, and attach to the substrate wit...  More  6 Images  2 Videos
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Pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus and Pipistrellus pygmaeus)
It was recently discovered that there are actually two species of pipistrelle bat formerly grouped together as Pipistrellus pipist...  More  9 Images  4 Videos
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Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)
The Atlantic white-sided dolphin is a large, robust species, which is easily recognised by the obvious yellow patch towards the re...  More  2 Images  0 Videos
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Wild cotoneaster (Cotoneaster cambricus)
Wild cotoneaster is a member of the rose family. It is a bushy deciduous shrub that grows to a height of 100 cm. In young shrubs, ...  More  5 Images  2 Videos
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Ground beetle (Anisodactylus nemorivagus)
This ground beetle is black in colour with reddish legs. The outer edges of the wing-cases (elytra) are covered in fine hairs and ...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
The short-beaked common dolphin is the commonest dolphin species, but exact numbers are unknown. It is easily identified owing to ...  More  8 Images  1 Video
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Lagoon sandworm (Armandia cirrhosa)
This rare, small worm is ribbon-like in appearance, and has three eyes on its head. The body comprises of 26 or 27 segments, each ...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Freshwater white-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes)
The only freshwater crayfish native to the UK, this species is olive-green to brown in colour and can reach up to 12 centimetres i...  More  8 Images  1 Video
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Northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus)
The northern bottlenose whale has a bulbous forehead and an obvious tube-like beak, these features are more pronounced in older ma...  More  6 Images  0 Videos
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Long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas)
The long-finned pilot whale is not actually a whale, but a dolphin. Along with the related short-finned pilot whale, this species ...  More  8 Images  2 Videos
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Northern brown argus (Aricia artaxerxes)
This small butterfly is dark brown in colour with orange crescents towards the edge of the wings, those on the forewings are absen...  More  5 Images  0 Videos
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Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
The harbour porpoise is the most commonly seen porpoise, and is the most widely distributed of all cetaceans (whales and dolphins)...  More  5 Images  2 Videos
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Bast bark beetle (Ernoporus tiliae)
This small, brown bark beetle has scales covering the wing cases (elytra), some of which are raised and form rows...  More  2 Images  0 Videos
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Sunset cup coral (Leptopsammia pruvoti)
The slow-growing and long-lived sunset cup coral has a porous skeleton about the size of a thimble. The polyps are similar in appe...  More  6 Images  1 Video
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Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)
Risso's dolphin is a large, stocky species with a blunt head. They are easily recognised as they are heavily scared and become whi...  More  8 Images  1 Video
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Pine hoverfly (Blera fallax)
The pine hoverfly is the only hoverfly with a red-tipped black abdomen and a yellow face...  More  2 Images  0 Videos
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Holly-leaved naiad (Najas marina)
Holly-leaved naiad is an aquatic plant that has tough narrow leaves on forked, brittle stems. Both the leaves and the stems have s...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Diving beetle (Agabus brunneus)
This chocolate-brown beetle has no common English name. It is difficult to distinguish from a number of similar species, needing t...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Corn cleavers (Galium tricornutum)
Corn cleavers is an endangered plant that has bristly stems and produces thin leaves in whorls of up to nine. The double fruits ar...  More  3 Images  0 Videos
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