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Grass snake or adder? The UK has three species of grass snake, adder and smooth snake. Want to know how to identify British snakes? Read our guide to work out what snake you've spotted.

How to identify bird and butterflies in your gardens, tell the difference between native and Spanish bluebells, know your birds of prey, and identify droppings and tracks.

Learn how to identify the UK's owls. Here’s our guide to the five owl species you’re likely to spot!

Identify moths. Have a look at our moth ID sheet to work out what kind of moth you have spotted.

In Britain we have around 270 species of bee. These include solitary bees, bumblebees and honeybees. You can identify some of the common bumblebees you see buzzing around parks and gardens using our guide.

Found some animal tracks but not sure what kind of animal they belong to? Here's how to identify animal tracks you might see!

Have you found some animal poo? Droppings, dung, spraints and scat - animal poo goes by many names. Knowing how to identify poo can be a great way of finding some of Britain's more elusive mammals. Here's how to identify some common animal droppings including hedgehog poo and fox poo.

A guide to identifying our most common diving ducks: tufted duck, pochard, goldeneye, goosander, merganser

A guide to identifying our most common dabbling ducks: mallard, wigeon, teal, pintail, gadwall and shoveler.

Gulls are among our most difficult birds to identify. This guide offers an introduction to gull watching, highlighting some of the key features to help identify gulls.

With dozens of butterflies and thousands of moths in the UK, there's a huge variety of caterpillars to be found. This caterpillar identification page will help you identify some of the most commonly seen caterpillars.

Spotted a butterfly but not sure what it is? Here are some common British butterflies you might see in your garden, and how to identify them.