Wildlife

Here is our tally of birds.

Please contact us if you want to help us with all things birds, or if you have a question you'd like to ask us about them.

Trevor Moore keeps an extensive website with his and others sightings of birds locally and kindly lets FoPB plunder this information (and the fantastic photos) whenever we want. Visit St Austell Baywatch.

Nigel Climpson, local nature enthusiast and photographer, has some outstanding photographs on his blog site at Natural World.

Plants

Phil Hunt has provided us with an extensive plant list which covers his plant records from 2000 to 2009. It lists 409 species that he has identified within the Par Beach/Local Nature Reserve (boundaries shown on the map in Beach Geography on the Home page).

The plant list has been typed up and is here as a PDF document, click the link below to view it, it will open in a new browser window. Phil Hunt's Plant List.

	Bird identification - RSPB Size, feathers, beak shape and the search results will give you a shortlist of possibilities.
	Bugs (Orthoptera) - Buglife Browse their bug directory to discover facts and stories behind some of the UK's fascinating invertebrates.
	Butterflies and Moths - Butterfly Conservation Quick i.d. of butterflies with lots of photos, and the same for day flying moths too.
	Butterflies and Moths - Butterfly Conservation Quick i.d. of butterflies with lots of photos, and the same for day flying moths too.
	Plant Identification - Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland There are links to the terms BSBI use in their identification program, it is quite comprehensive
	Shell identification- Bivalve Molluscs - Natural History Museum On their site click on "Browse Taxa" and then the area you are interested in such as intertidal for shallow beach molluscs.
	Mammals (in all their forms) - The Mammal Society The British Isles are home to around 90 species of mammal in the land, air and sea. See the full list of mammals of the British isles here, and select the image to learn more about each species.
	Tree identification - SAPS (from Summer shoot or Winter twig) Science and Plants for Schools website. Choose to identify from a Shoot with leaves or a Twig without leaves
	Record your sightings - Erccis The Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Share your sightings here with their online portal ORKS (Online Recording Kernow and Scilly)