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Breaking Ground
Behind the greenhouses in the Experimental Grounds is a patch of mostly bare ground that has clearly been well-trodden by naturalists over the past year or so. It’s the site where mousetail was rediscovered on campus last spring, and perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Beetles, Insects
Tagged Beetles, biodiversity, Carabidae, Ground Beetles, whiteknights
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Another fungi foray
The Whiteknights campus is absolutely packed with excellent fungi this month. I’m out and about doing assignments almost everyday and I’ve had to add fungi forays to my list of new hobbies since beginning MSc Species ID and Survey Skills. … Continue reading
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Tagged basidiomycota, biodiversity, fungi, Identification, whiteknights
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Sowing the seeds of diversity
At 10am on Thursday morning the Vice chancellor welcomed visitors to the Harris Garden to create a wild flower space on campus with native seeds from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as part of the Big Lottery funded Grow Wild … Continue reading
Posted in Meetings/Events, Plants
Tagged Becky Thomas, biodiversity, Giles Reynolds, Professor Mark Fellowes, Sir David Bell, wildflowers
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Campus Lake Part Three – Other Water Birds and Edge Species
The third and final part to my blogs on the bird species that can be found on the Whiteknights campus lake. Today, I am including the rest of the water birds which were sighted during the survey period, and some … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Birds
Tagged Aegithalos caudatus, biodiversity, campus, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Columba livia, Columba palumbus, Cyanistes caeruleus, Erithacus rubecula, Fulica atra, Gallinula chloropus, Garrulus glandarius, lake, Larus argentatus, Parus major, Periparus ater, Pica pica, reading, reading university, Troglodytes troglodytes, Turdus merula, whiteknights
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The Campus Lake (Part Two)
My previous post started off the list of species that can be found on the lake at Whiteknights Campus. Here is a brief description of some of the species within the family Anatidae that I saw during my surveys: