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Common Lizard
Moorland
specialist: 3
Speed: 4
Camouflage: 5
Predator/prey: 6
Rarity: 1
Bilberry
Moorland
specialist: 7
Speed: 2
Common Cotton Grass
Moorland
specialist: 8
Speed: 1
Camouflage: 1
Predator/prey: 2
Rarity: 6
Camouflage: 4
Predator/prey: 2
Rarity: 5
Golden Plover
Moorland
specialist: 4
Speed: 7
Heather
Moorland
specialist: 8
Speed: 1
Camouflage: 1
Predator/prey: 1
Rarity: 4
Camouflage: 7
Predator/prey: 5
Rarity: 4
Bilberry Bumblebee
Moorland
specialist: 7
Speed: 5
Emperor Moth
Moorland
specialist: 6
Speed: 6
Camouflage: 5
Predator/prey: 3
Rarity: 3
Camouflage: 2
Predator/prey: 3
Rarity: 7
Heather Fly
Moorland
specialist: 6
Speed: 2
Camouflage: 1
Predator/prey: 4
Rarity: 1
Name: Common Lizard
Name: Bilberry
Name: Golden Plover
Name: Bilberry bumblebee
Scientific name: Zootoca vivipara
Scientific name: Vaccinium myrtillus
Scientific name: Pluvialis apricaria
Scientific name: Bombus monticola
Category: Reptile
Category: Plant
Category: Bird
Category: Insect
About: The common lizard is our most
widespread reptile. In spring they bask in the
open to absorb the heat from the sun. They
hibernate, usually from October to April.
About: Bilberry is a dwarf shrub which
grows to around 50cm tall, has pinkish-red
flowers, bluish-black edible fruits and it loses
its leaves in the winter.
About: The bilberry bumblebee has bright
yellow bands on the thorax and red hairs on
the abdomen. The bilberry bumblebee, like
many of our bee species is in decline.
Eats: Small insects
Eats: Requires sunlight, water and nutrients
from the ground.
About: Nests on moorlands, spends the
winter on farmland and on muddy estuaries
around the coast. The golden plover breeds
on upland heathland and blanket bog. A
major food source comes from craneflies
or ‘daddy long-legs’ which also inhabit the
wetter areas of the moorlands.
Eaten By: Stoat, weasels and short-eared
owl.
Fantastic fact: If attacked by a predator, a
lizard will often run away, leaving its wriggling
tail behind!
Eaten By: Humans, bilberry bumblebee and
birds.
Fantastic fact: Bilberry jam was a favourite
of British pilots during WWII, who felt that it
aided their vision at night.
Eats: Craneflies and other insects
Eaten By: Birds of prey and foxes
Fantastic fact: There are two other species
of golden plover: the american golden plover
and the pacific golden plover. Both are
extremely rare visitors to Britain each year.
Eats: Gathers nectar from the bilberry,
clover and heather plants.
Eaten By: Birds, mice and lizards
Fantastic fact: The bilberry bumblebees
nest on or below the ground, often using old
animal burrows.
Name: Common Cotton Grass
Name: Heather
Name: Emperor Moth
Name: Heather Fly
Scientific name: Eriophorum angustifolium
Scientific name: Calluna vulgaris
Scientific name: Pavonia pavonia
Scientific name: Bibio pomonae
Category: Plant
Category: Plant
Category: Insect
Category: Insect
About: Appearing like tufts of cotton
wool swaying in the breeze it can be found
growing in blanket bog areas. Common
cotton grass flowers in April and June.
About: Heather is a bushy, evergreen shrub
with twiggy stems and tiny, needle shaped
leaves. Usually lots of heather plants grow
together forming a thick, bushy carpet. It
flowers in late summer, turning miles of
bleak, brown moorland into a beautiful
purple carpet.
About: The emperor moth is found
throughout Europe in open woods, moors
and heaths. Both males and females have
a large ‘eye spot’ on each wing. The fully
grown caterpillar is green with black hoops
containing yellow wart-like spots.
About: The heather fly is a very common,
long, shiny black fly found in large numbers
in the spring. Heather flies will often land on
any objects in their way, including fence posts
and people.
Eats: Requires sunlight, water and nutrients
from the ground to grow.
Eaten By: Mountain hares
Fantastic fact: Not actually a grass at all as
this is a member of the sedge family.
Eats: Requires sunlight, water and nutrients
from the ground to grow.
Eaten By: Sheep, wild grouse. It also
provides food for bumblebees.
Fantastic fact: Local people used to
use heather to make a type of broom called
a “besom” to sweep their cottage floors.
Eats: The caterpillars feed on heather,
bilberry and hawthorn plants.
Eats: Adult flies feed on nectar and are
important pollinators for fruit trees and
other plants.
Eaten By: Bats, birds and lizards
Eaten By: Lizards, birds and sundew
Fantastic fact: Males fly during the day
while females fly at night.
Fantastic fact: The heather fly will fly
around with its legs dangling underneath
them.
Sundew
Moorland
specialist: 8
Speed: 4
Camouflage: 4
Predator/prey: 6
Rarity: 3
Black Darter Dragonfly
Moorland
specialist: 7
Speed: 9
Short-eared Owl
Moorland
specialist: 3
Speed: 7
Camouflage: 8
Predator/prey: 8
Rarity: 6
Camouflage: 4
Predator/prey: 4
Rarity: 2
Mountain Hare
Moorland
specialist: 9
Speed: 8
Twite
Moorland
specialist: 6
Speed: 4
Camouflage: 5
Predator/prey: 5
Rarity: 10
Camouflage: 10
Predator/prey: 3
Rarity: 6
Red Grouse
Moorland
specialist: 10
Speed: 5
Sphagnum
Moorland
specialist: 9
Speed: 1
Camouflage: 5
Predator/prey: 1
Rarity: 8
Camouflage: 8
Predator/prey: 4
Rarity: 6
Curlew
Moorland
specialist: 5
Speed: 3
Camouflage: 7
Predator/prey: 5
Rarity: 4
Name: Sundew
Name: Black Darter Dragonfly
Name: Mountain Hare
Name: Red Grouse
Scientific name: Drosera
Scientific name: Sympetrum danae
Scientific name: Lepus timidus
Scientific name: Lagopus lagopus
Category: Plant
Category: Insect
Category: Mammal
Category: Bird
About: Sundews are carnivorous plants
which usually live in wet habitats, where the
acidic soil conditions limits the amount of
nutrients it can get. These plants therefore
supplement their diet by trapping and
digesting small insects on their sticky leaves.
About: A small, narrow bodied dragonfly,
the male is black with dark yellow spots
along the sides. The females and young are
brownish yellow. This is a common dragonfly
of moorlands, heaths and bogs and can
be seen flying from the end of June until
September.
About: Mountain hares are native to the
highlands of Scotland, but were introduced
to the Peak District in the 19th century.
The mountain hare prefers areas of mixed
heather and cotton grass moorland.
About: The red grouse is a plump game
bird, a little smaller than a chicken. It is found
on upland moorland, and is often spotted
as it flies from the heather, suddenly flying
upwards with rapid, whirring wing-beats.
Eats: Plants including gorse, heather and
grasses.
Eats: Heather, seeds, berries and insects.
Eats: Insects
Eaten by: Caterpillars
Fantastic fact: Sundews can be found
growing on every continent except
Antarctica.
Eats: Small flying insects such as midges and
mosquitoes.
Eaten by: Birds of prey and foxes.
Eaten by: Birds, spiders and frogs/newts
when at the larvae stage.
Fantastic fact: Its brown coat turns white
in the winter, which provides excellent
camouflage when it has snowed.
Eaten by: Foxes, humans and birds of prey.
Fantastic fact: No other bird in the world
makes such major use of heather.
Fantastic fact: This is the smallest British
dragonfly.
Name: Short-eared Owl
Name: Twite
Name: Sphagnum Moss
Name: Curlew
Scientific name: Asio flammeus
Scientific name: Carduelis flavirostris
Scientific name: Sphagnum spp.
Scientific name: Numenius arquata
Category: Bird
Category: Bird
Category: Moss and Lichen
Category: Bird
About: Short-eared owls mainly hunt during
the daytime, flying low over moorland and
grassland. Short-eared owls are yellowybrown with streaky plumage.
About: The twite is a small sociable bird
which nests under rocky crags or in patches
of bracken, heather or bilberry on the
moors. They breed on the moorlands from
April to September then move out to
coastal areas from October until March.
About: Sphagnum mosses play a very
important role in the creation of peat bogs:
they hold water in their spongy forms long
after the surrounding soil has dried out. In
this way, they provide essential nutrients to
the soil and help to prevent the decay of
dead plant material.
About: A very tall wader, with long bluegrey legs and a very long, downwards curved
bill. Curlews breed in open habitats including
moorland and upland pasture. They feed by
probing their long curved bill into damp soil.
Eats: Small birds, field voles, mice and other
small animals.
Eaten By: Foxes, stoats will eat young birds
and eggs.
Fantastic fact: Some short-eared owls
migrate here from the continent for the
winter, and can occasionally be seen flying in
off the sea.
Eats: Seeds
Eaten By: Stoats, weasels and bigger birds
may eat the young birds and eggs.
Fantastic fact: In the past 14 years
numbers have dropped by 90% and there
are now only about 100 breeding pairs left
in the UK.
Eats: Requires sunlight, water and nutrients
from the ground to grow.
Eaten By: No predators.
Fantastic fact: Peat is largely made of
sphagnum, which has partly rotted down
over hundreds of years.
Eats: Spiders, lizards, crustaceans and worms.
Eaten By: Stoats, weasels and foxes.
Fantastic fact: The curlew call is a loud, sad
‘cur-lee’ and is often heard in the spring time.