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    Vaughn Matthews

    The Wildlife Trusts is a movement made up of 46 Wildlife Trusts: independent charities with a shared mission.

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    Tom Hibbert

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Wilder Future

The majority of the species we love have been getting less and less common, but there's still time to bring them back.

Join the Wildlife Trusts on our exciting adventure to a Wilder Future.

Great Crested Grebe

Grebes and divers

Fulmar

Seabirds

Goldeneye

Waterfowl

Bittern

Herons, egrets and spoonbill

White-tailed eagle in flight

Birds of prey

Black grouse males lekking

Grouse, partridges, pheasant and quail

Common Snipe

Wading birds

Turtle dove

Pigeons and doves

Kingfisher in flight

Woodpeckers, cuckoo, kingfisher and waxwing

Sand martin

Swallows, swift, martins and nightjar

Ring-necked parakeet

Parakeet

Pied wagtail

Larks, sparrows, wagtails and dunnock

Dipper

Thrushes, chats, flycatchers, starling, dipper and wren

Marsh tit

Tits, crests and warblers

Hooded Crow

Crows and shrikes

Siskin

Finches and buntings

Common crane

Common crane

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