• Flora and Fauna of the British Isles

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Flora and Fauna

The warm and wet climate of Great Britain is very good for plants. That` s why the country looks like a big beautiful garden.

Centuries ago there were a lot of forests on the British Isles but now you can find big forests only in a few parts of the country-the north of Scotland and the south-east and south-west of England.

The most common trees in England are oaks, elms and beeches while Scotland has a lot of pines, first and birches.

The fauna or animal life on the British Isles

Many larger animals such as bears and wolves don` t live on the British Isles anymore but there are a lot of smaller animals : foxes, rabbits, hares and hedgehogs. There are also different kinds of fish, snakes, lizards, frogs, butterflies and dragonflies.

Fox

Rabbits Hedgehogs

Birds

Many of them are songbirds, in spring the land rings with their singing. The most common are blackbirds and sparrows. A lot of waterbirds-swans, ducks, geese and gulls-live on the lakes and rivers and on the sea coasts of Great Britain.

Ducks Geese

British plants.

There are also plant symbols of the country: the read rose is the national emblem of England, thistle is the national emblem of Scotland, the yellow daffodil and the leek are emblems of Wales and the shamrock is the emblem of Ireland.

Read rose Thistle Daffodil Leek

Shamrock

Flora of the British Isles

Fauna of the British Isles