Field guide to the most commonly encountered mammals and birds

Here, we provide some basic information regarding commonly observed species (plus some others about which we have had queries).  

Feel free to contact us by email if you have any questions regarding species you have encountered on the site.

For more information about mammals, we recommend the Mammal Society's species hub, here, and MammalNet here. For birds, excellent resources are available from the RSPB (here) and the BTO (here).

 

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Domestic cat

Scientific name: Felis catus

Any representative of the many and varied breeds of cat that have descended from thousands of years of domestication by humans. Take care not to confuse these with wildcats or wildcat-domestic hybrids, especially when the coat pattern is brown/grey with mostly striped black markings.