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Little owl by Pete Walkden

Click on the boxes below to explore different groups of wildlife. 

You can also set yourself a wildlife-spotting challenge and discover more about Worcestershire's...

beetles        bryophytes        butterflies        dragonflies        flies        garden birds        grasses        grasshoppers and bush-crickets         ladybirds        moths        mammals        raptors        shieldbugs        solitary bees        spiders        super grasses

Wading birds

A pectoral sandpiper walking across wet mud. It's a small, brown wading bird with a sharp demarcation between the buffish-brown breast and white belly

Pectoral sandpiper

A spotted redshank wading through shallow water, with a perfect reflection. It's an elegant wader with a grey back, white belly and long reddish-orange legs. It has a bold white line above the eye and a long, fine bill with a red base to the lower mandible and a slightly drooping tip

Spotted redshank

A curlew sandpiper wading through a shallow, muddy pool. It's a small wading bird with a fairly long, downcurved beak, rusty red underparts and spangled black and red upparparts

Curlew sandpiper

A wood sanspiper trekking along the water's edge. It's a medium-sized wading bird with pale spangling on its dark back, a pale belly and a strong, pale line above the eye

Wood sandpiper

A little sting wading along the edge of a muddy shore

Little stint

A stone curlew standing in a meadow. It's a brown wading bird with a large yellow eye, long yellow legs and a slender yellow beak

Stone curlew

A black-winged stilt wading through a mud-fringed pool, its extremely long pink legs keeping the black and white body well above the water

Black-winged stilt

Jack snipe

Jack snipe

Purple sandpiper

Purple sandpiper

Corncrake

Corncrake

Oystercatcher

Oystercatcher

Black-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed godwit

Avocet

Avocet

Bar-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed godwit

Little Ringed Plover

Little ringed plover

Curlew

Curlew

Ringed Plover

Ringed plover

Whimbrel

Whimbrel

Lapwing

Lapwing

Woodcock

Woodcock

Golden Plover

Golden plover

Common Snipe

Snipe

Grey Plover

Grey plover

Red-necked Phalarope

Red-necked phalarope

Turnstone

Turnstone

Knot

Knot

Sanderling

Sanderling

Dunlin

Dunlin

Green sandpiper

Green Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Common sandpiper

Water Rail

Water rail

Ruff

Ruff

Moorhen

Moorhen

A redshank standing amongst seaweed on the edge of the water

Redshank

Coot

Coot

Greenshank

Greenshank

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