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The Wildlife Trusts

Ben Keywood

Insect Expert at Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust

A redshank standing amongst seaweed on the edge of the water

Top Migratory Birds to Spot This Winter

Nina Jones, Protected Area Warden at Sandwich and Pegwell Bay celebrates World Migratory Bird Day by sharing some of the best birds to look out for on the way back to the UK for their winter stay.

The Kent Wildlife Trust logo, a digitally illustrated Adonis blue butterfly.

Amy Fitzmaurice

Kent Wildlife Trust’s Human-wildlife coexistence officer

Coastal cliff

Coastal-ORIG

Coastal habitats are found wherever the land meets the sea. With some 17,800km, the UK has one of the longest national coastlines in Europe. The coast is home to many habitats, with cliffs, rocky shores, sand and shingle beaches, sand dunes, mudflats, saltmarshes and machair.

Shallow Water

Marine Habitats

There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and sharks slip through the open water.