This dainty seaduck is a winter visitor to our coasts, particularly in northern and eastern Scotland.

Guillemots really know how to live life on the edge – quite literally! They nest tightly packed on steep ledges and cliffs around the coast. This may sound like a strange nesting spot, but it…

This streaky brown bird is a summer visitor to Britain, favouring open woodlands in the north and west.

With its fluffy-looking, light blue flower heads, sheep's-bit is a pretty plant of dry grassland, heaths and clifftops. Sometimes carpeting an area, it is popular with nectar-loving insects…

Once a rare visitor to the UK, this striking gull is now found nesting here in large colonies.

The large white is a common garden visitor - look out for its brilliant white wings, tipped with black.