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Flora & Fauna - Summary Of The Wildlife Interest  
  Among the hundreds of plants and thousands of insects to be found at Royal Birkdale, some of the most interesting are noted below:
 


Nationally rare and
protected animal species
Natterjack toad
Sand Lizard
Red Squirrel
Pipistrelle bat

Nationally imported plant species
Dune helleborine
Sea spurge
Dune fescue

Other orchids
Bee orchid
Early marsh orchid
Southern marsh orchid
Marsh helleborine

Other plants
Round-leaved wintergreen

Breeding Birds
Skylark
Grey partridge
Shelduck
Linnet
Whitethroat
Kestrel

 


Birds, which occur in nationally, imported
numbers on the shoreline
Oystercatcher
Sanderling
Grey plover
Knot
Bar-tailed godwit

Internationally imported habitats
Grey fixed dunes
Other dune types

Geomorphological features
Dune ridges
Dune
Slacks
Blowouts

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