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Natural History of Radley

 

The following pages describe the natural history of the area and list the species of wildlife likely to be found there.

 

ENVIRONMENTRiver Thames

FLORAhorse chestnut

FAUNALeaf beetle

 

All photographs on these pages were taken in Radley

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Help wanted:

An objective is to construct, an inventory of Radley's wildlife at the present time. This will provide a baseline against which future generations can monitor changes in biodiversity. This is just a start. So far the list comprises over 1,500 different taxons, which sound a lot but really is just scratching the surface.

You can help by providing information about wildlife in your locality of Radley arising from your observations and sightings. Also, please tell us about any errors you find on these pages.

Also, we would welcome contributions, from those with specialist expertise, in botany or zoology for example, to the authorship of these pages.

Anyone is welcome to submit photographs of species not yet adequately illustrated on these pages (or substantially better photographs of any that are). Images should be in jpeg (.jpg) format as close as possible in quality to the original photographs, up to 500kB, accompanied by all relevant information (what, when, where and by whom). To reduce the image file size, please use file compression (jpeg) and/or preliminary cropping in preference to resampling, which should be used only as a last resort. We reserve the right to fix any defects (exposure, colour balance etc) and make the final crop as required. Further advice on how to do this can be provided on request. Copyright remains with the author. Photographs should illustrate the living organism and must have been taken of specimens found within the Parish of Radley.

If you would like to contribute anything to these pages, please contact us.

 

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References

Complete British Wildlife

Paul Sterry

Published by Collins, London, 1997

ISBN 0 00 220071 6

 

Small Woodland Creatures

Lars-Henrik Olsen, Jakob Sunesen and Bente Vita Pedersen

Published by Oxford University Press,  2001

ISBN 0 19 850797 6

 

British Wildlife

Paul Sterry

Published by HarperCollins, London, 2008

ISBN 978 0 00 726353 0

 
 
 

Disclaimer

Whilst we do our best to ensure accuracy, photograph captions on these pages should not be regarded as authoritative for identification purposes.

 

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