Biodiversity is the rich variety of life on Earth.

At ACE, we want all life to flourish. To help increase the biodiversity of our school grounds we need to know what life visits us and what that life needs in order to thrive. Then we can try and help improve the habitats and see if that increases the biodiversity.

We are using the iNaturalist website and the Seek app to help us identify and record wildlife that we find. You can see our records here.

Here is some of the incredible life we find in school:

Birds

• Blackbird
• Blue tit
• Bullfinch
• Carrion Crow
• Coal tit
• Gold Finch
• Great tit
• Grey Heron
• House Sparrow
• Long tailed tit
• Magpie
• Pied Wagtail
• Red Kite
• Song Thrush
• Starling
• Wood Pigeon

Mammals

• Fox
• Grey Squirrel
• Hedgehog

Insects

• Alder leaf beetle
• Light brown apple moth
• Orange tip butterfly
• Red-tailed bumble bee
• Seven spotted Ladybird
• Shield bug
• Tapered drone fly

Spiders

• Walnut Orb Weaver
• Zebra jumping spider

Molluscs

• Draparnaud’s Glass Snail

Plants

Trees

• Alder tree
• Hawthorn
• Oak
• Silver Birch
• Willow

Other plants

• Bird’s foot trefoil
• Brome grass
• Chives
• Cock’s foot grass
• Common daisy
• Common groundsel
• Common poppy
• Creeping buttercup
• Dandelion
• Douglas’ meadow foam (poached egg plant)
• Field horsetail
• Great Mullein
• Leavenworth’s eryngo
• Purple toadflax
• Red clover
• Shining pepperweed
• Yorkshire Fog Grass