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Help your local species on the edge by increasing your nature-knowledge and developing wildlife-friendly skills.

Explore species factsheets, upcoming educational and training events, online talks and other resources below.

Learn about our ‘species on the edge’

Explore our factsheets for our 37 priority species. Learn more about their biology, distribution, threats, how you can help, and explore further resources.

All 37 target species

Common Pipistrelle bat on a tree — Common pipistrelle bat

Great yellow bumblebee on a flower — Great yellow bumblebee

Irish Ladies Tresses — Irish lady’s tresses

Plantain leaf beetle - a black beetle with a red stripe — Leaf beetle

Little tern in flight with fish — Little tern

Marsh fritillary butterfly — Marsh fritillary

New Forest burnet moth. A moth with black wings and red spots — New Forest burnet

Northern colletes digging in sand — Northern colletes

Oysterplant on sand - a plant with blue and purple flowers — Oysterplant

A chough - a black bird with a red beak and red legs - on a rock — Red-billed chough

Shetland mouse-eared hawkweed in a meadow of wildflowers — Shetland mouse-eared hawkweed

A short-necked oil beetle — Short-necked oil beetle

A Small Blue butterfly on Kidney Vetch — Small blue butterfly

Soprano Pipistrelle — Soprano pipistrelle

Two Talisker burnet moths on a flower — Talisker burnet moth

Transparent Burnet moth — Transparent burnet moth

Upcoming educational and training events

Western Isles Conservation in Action Conference, Lewis + Uist, 29 September

Learn more about conservation efforts taking place in the Outer Hebrides...

Online training and learning resources

Cuireadh do dhaoine òga buaidh a thoirt air glèidhteachas nan ialtagan ann an Earra-Ghàidheal ’s sna h-Eileanan A-Staigh san àm ri teachd

Tha buidheann glèidhteachais ùr fo stiùireadh òigridh ga chur air bhog ann an Earra-Ghàidheal ’s sna...

Young people invited to shape the future of bat conservation in Argyll and the Inner Hebrides

Introducing the Argyll and Islands Youth Bat Council!...

Virtual Fence Cattle Collars – online talk with The Scottish Crofting Federation

Learn more about virtual fence collars and hear from crofters and conservationists putting them to u...

Discover your local bats: An introduction to the National Bat Monitoring Programme

Learn about the UK's bats and how you can help them in this online talk led by Species on the Edge B...

Surveying the Bordered Brown Lacewing

Learn how to survey the Bordered Brown Lacewing...

Leaf beetles with Suzanne Burgess

Learn more about leaf beetles with our March 2025 talk: 'Leaf beetles with Suzanne Burgess'...

Learn more about Scotland’s northern and island bumblebees

Learn more about Scotland's northern and island bumblebees in this Species on the Edge bumblebee ID ...

Small blue butterfly with Mike Slater

Learn more about small blue butterflies with our February 2025 talk: 'Small blue butterfly with Mike...

Crop management for linties and pollinators

Learn how crofters in Shetland are managing their land for biodiversity, with our January 2025 talk:...

Grow Your Knowledge

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Learn about our ‘species on the edge’

Arctic tern

Bordered brown lacewing

Brown long-eared bat

Common pipistrelle bat

Common tern

Corncrake

Curlew

Dunlin

Daubenton’s bat

Endemic hawkweed species

Great yellow bumblebee

Greenland white-fronted goose

Irish lady’s tresses

Lapwing

Leaf beetle

Little tern

Marsh fritillary

Medicinal leech

Moss carder bumblebee ssp. agricolae

Natterjack toad

New Forest burnet

Northern brown argus

Northern colletes

Oysterplant

Purple oxytropis

Red-billed chough

Red-necked phalarope

Scottish primrose

Shetland mouse-eared hawkweed

Short-necked oil beetle

Slender Scotch burnet

Small blue butterfly

Soprano pipistrelle

Tadpole shrimp

Talisker burnet moth

Transparent burnet moth

Twite

Upcoming educational and training events

Online training and learning resources

Further resources

Bats

Bees

Beetles

Birds

Butterflies

Moths

Natterjack toad

Other invertebrates

Plants

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