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  • Sunset over the Thames Estuary at Cliffe, Kent, Uk
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  • Savi’s Warbler Locustella luscinioides L 14-15cm. Reedbed specialist that is hard to see. Sexes are similar. Adult and juvenile have uniformly warm brown upperparts. Underparts are paler but flushed buffish brown on breast and flanks; undertail coverts are warm buffish brown. Voice Call is a sharp tviit. Song is reeling, endless and insect-like; sung mainly at night. Status to extensive wet reedbeds, mainly in East Anglia and Kent.
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  • LIZARD ORCHID Himantoglossum hircinum (Orchidaceae) Height to 1m. Extraordinary orchid of scrub, undisturbed grassland and stabilised dunes. Bizarrely, the flowers smell of goats. FLOWERS have a greenish grey hood, adorned on the inside with reddish streaks, and an extremely long and twisted lip (up to 5cm); borne in tall spikes (May-Jul). FRUITS form and swell at the base of the flowers. LEAVES comprise oval basal leaves that soon wither, and smaller stem leaves that persist. STATUS-Regularly seen in E Kent only; very occasionally turns up elsewhere.
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  • LIZARD ORCHID Himantoglossum hircinum (Orchidaceae) Height to 1m. Extraordinary orchid of scrub, undisturbed grassland and stabilised dunes. Bizarrely, the flowers smell of goats. FLOWERS have a greenish grey hood, adorned on the inside with reddish streaks, and an extremely long and twisted lip (up to 5cm); borne in tall spikes (May-Jul). FRUITS form and swell at the base of the flowers. LEAVES comprise oval basal leaves that soon wither, and smaller stem leaves that persist. STATUS-Regularly seen in E Kent only; very occasionally turns up elsewhere.
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  • LIZARD ORCHID Himantoglossum hircinum (Orchidaceae) Height to 1m. Extraordinary orchid of scrub, undisturbed grassland and stabilised dunes. Bizarrely, the flowers smell of goats. FLOWERS have a greenish grey hood, adorned on the inside with reddish streaks, and an extremely long and twisted lip (up to 5cm); borne in tall spikes (May-Jul). FRUITS form and swell at the base of the flowers. LEAVES comprise oval basal leaves that soon wither, and smaller stem leaves that persist. STATUS-Regularly seen in E Kent only; very occasionally turns up elsewhere.
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  • LIZARD ORCHID Himantoglossum hircinum (Orchidaceae) Height to 1m. Extraordinary orchid of scrub, undisturbed grassland and stabilised dunes. Bizarrely, the flowers smell of goats. FLOWERS have a greenish grey hood, adorned on the inside with reddish streaks, and an extremely long and twisted lip (up to 5cm); borne in tall spikes (May-Jul). FRUITS form and swell at the base of the flowers. LEAVES comprise oval basal leaves that soon wither, and smaller stem leaves that persist. STATUS-Regularly seen in E Kent only; very occasionally turns up elsewhere.
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  • Dungeness RSPB, Kent, UK
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  • North Kent Marshes, Uk
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  • Elmley RSPB Reserve, Kent
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  • LATE SPIDER-ORCHID Ophrys fuciflora (Height to 50cm) is superficially similar to both Bee Orchid and Early Spider-orchid. It differs from the former in its broader, less rounded lip, the tip of which has a green, upturned appendage; from the latter it is told by its pink, not green, outer perianth segments. It is restricted to chalk downs in Kent.
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  • Savi’s Warbler Locustella luscinioides L 14-15cm. Reedbed specialist that is hard to see. Sexes are similar. Adult and juvenile have uniformly warm brown upperparts. Underparts are paler but flushed buffish brown on breast and flanks; undertail coverts are warm buffish brown. Voice Call is a sharp tviit. Song is reeling, endless and insect-like; sung mainly at night. Status to extensive wet reedbeds, mainly in East Anglia and Kent.
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  • Savi’s Warbler Locustella luscinioides L 14-15cm. Reedbed specialist that is hard to see. Sexes are similar. Adult and juvenile have uniformly warm brown upperparts. Underparts are paler but flushed buffish brown on breast and flanks; undertail coverts are warm buffish brown. Voice Call is a sharp tviit. Song is reeling, endless and insect-like; sung mainly at night. Status to extensive wet reedbeds, mainly in East Anglia and Kent.
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  • Savi’s Warbler Locustella luscinioides L 14-15cm. Reedbed specialist that is hard to see. Sexes are similar. Adult and juvenile have uniformly warm brown upperparts. Underparts are paler but flushed buffish brown on breast and flanks; undertail coverts are warm buffish brown. Voice Call is a sharp tviit. Song is reeling, endless and insect-like; sung mainly at night. Status to extensive wet reedbeds, mainly in East Anglia and Kent.
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  • Savi’s Warbler Locustella luscinioides L 14-15cm. Reedbed specialist that is hard to see. Sexes are similar. Adult and juvenile have uniformly warm brown upperparts. Underparts are paler but flushed buffish brown on breast and flanks; undertail coverts are warm buffish brown. Voice Call is a sharp tviit. Song is reeling, endless and insect-like; sung mainly at night. Status to extensive wet reedbeds, mainly in East Anglia and Kent.
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  • Savi’s Warbler Locustella luscinioides L 14-15cm. Reedbed specialist that is hard to see. Sexes are similar. Adult and juvenile have uniformly warm brown upperparts. Underparts are paler but flushed buffish brown on breast and flanks; undertail coverts are warm buffish brown. Voice Call is a sharp tviit. Song is reeling, endless and insect-like; sung mainly at night. Status to extensive wet reedbeds, mainly in East Anglia and Kent.
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  • LIZARD ORCHID Himantoglossum hircinum (Orchidaceae) Height to 1m. Extraordinary orchid of scrub, undisturbed grassland and stabilised dunes. Bizarrely, the flowers smell of goats. FLOWERS have a greenish grey hood, adorned on the inside with reddish streaks, and an extremely long and twisted lip (up to 5cm); borne in tall spikes (May-Jul). FRUITS form and swell at the base of the flowers. LEAVES comprise oval basal leaves that soon wither, and smaller stem leaves that persist. STATUS-Regularly seen in E Kent only; very occasionally turns up elsewhere.
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  • LATE SPIDER-ORCHID Ophrys fuciflora (Height to 50cm) is superficially similar to both Bee Orchid and Early Spider-orchid. It differs from the former in its broader, less rounded lip, the tip of which has a green, upturned appendage; from the latter it is told by its pink, not green, outer perianth segments. It is restricted to chalk downs in Kent.
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  • Lady Orchid - Orchid purpurea (top row - Oxfordshire, bottom row - Kent)
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  • Early Spider Orchid - Ophrys sphegodes - Shakespeare Cliff/Samphire Hoe, Kent
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  • Monkey Orchid - Orchid simia - Kent
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  • Monkey Orchid - Orchid simia - Kent
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  • Lizard Orchid - Himantoglossum hircinum
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  • Savi's Warbler - Locustella luscinioides
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  • Lizard Orchid - Himantoglossum hircinum
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  • Lizard Orchid - Himantoglossum hircinum
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  • Lizard Orchid - Himantoglossum hircinum
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  • Lizard Orchid - Himantoglossum hircinum
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  • Kent Black Arches - Meganola albula
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Kent Black Arches - Meganola albula
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  • MONKEY ORCHID Orchis simia (Height to 45cm) has flowers that are fancifully monkey-like. They are borne in cylindrical heads; unlike most other orchids, the flowers open in succession from the top downwards (May-Jun). The Monkey Orchid grows at a few locations in Oxfordshire, with further isolated sites in Kent and Yorkshire.
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  • maid of kent<br />
Emus hirtus
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  • maid of kent<br />
Emus hirtus
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  • Saltmarsh Goosefoot Chenopodium chenopodioides (Chenopodiaceae). Height to 30cm. Recalls Red Goosefoot but the mature leaves are always red below and indeed the whole plant is often red tinged. The reddish-green flowers are borne in clusters (July-Sep) and the plant grows on drying mud in saltmarshes, with north Kent as its stronghold.
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  • Saltmarsh Goosefoot Chenopodium chenopodioides (Chenopodiaceae). Height to 30cm. Recalls Red Goosefoot but the mature leaves are always red below and indeed the whole plant is often red tinged. The reddish-green flowers are borne in clusters (July-Sep) and the plant grows on drying mud in saltmarshes, with north Kent as its stronghold.
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  • OXTONGUE BROOMRAPE Orobanche artemisiae-campestris (Orobanchaceae) Height to 60cm. Upright, unbranched annual that usually has a purplish-tinged stem. Whole plant lacks chlorophyll and is entirely parasitic on the roots of Hawkweed Oxtongue Picris hieracioides. Found in calcareous grassland and on sea cliffs. FLOWERS are 15-20mm long, the corolla pinkish yellow with purple veins, tubular with smoothly curved dorsal surface, and 2-lipped; filmaents are hairy at base. Flowers borne in open, upright spikes (Jun-Jul). FRUITS are egg-shaped capsules, concealed by the dead flowers. LEAVES are scale-like. STATUS-Very rare. S England only, from cliffs in Kent and Sussex, to Isle of Wight.
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  • MONKEY ORCHID Orchis simia (Height to 45cm) has flowers that are fancifully monkey-like. They are borne in cylindrical heads; unlike most other orchids, the flowers open in succession from the top downwards (May-Jun). The Monkey Orchid grows at a few locations in Oxfordshire, with further isolated sites in Kent and Yorkshire.
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  • MONKEY ORCHID Orchis simia (Height to 45cm) has flowers that are fancifully monkey-like. They are borne in cylindrical heads; unlike most other orchids, the flowers open in succession from the top downwards (May-Jun). The Monkey Orchid grows at a few locations in Oxfordshire, with further isolated sites in Kent and Yorkshire.
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  • LADY ORCHID Orchis purpurea (Orchidaceae) Height to 75cm. Impressive and attractive perennial that grows in woodland and scrub, mostly on chalk soils. FLOWERS have a dark red hood and a pale pink, red-spotted lip; borne in a cylindrical spike, 10-15cm tall, with flowers opening from the bottom (Apr-Jun). FRUITS are egg-shaped. LEAVES are broad and oval, forming a basal rosette and loosely sheathing the stem. STATUS-Confined to S England and locally common only in Kent.
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  • SUFFOCATED CLOVER Trifolium suffocatum (Prostrate) is easily overlooked because it is low-growing and soon withers and dries. The stalked leaves are arranged around a stalkless cluster of whitish flowers with pointed bracts (Apr-May). The plant grows on bare shingle and sand near the coast and occurs, very locally, from Pagham Harbour to east Kent.
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  • CUT-LEAVED GERMANDER Teucriuim botrys (Lamiaceae) Height to 25cm. Upright and branched, downy annual or biennial. Grows on bare ground, in short grassland often on previously disturbed soil, and in arable fields, on chalk and limestone soils. FLOWERS are 7-9mm long with no upper lip but a lower lip that is deep, pink; borne in small clusters up leafy stems (Jul-Sep). FRUITS are nutlets. LEAVES are almost triangular but deeply cut, the lower ones almost pinnately so. STATUS-Rare and restricted to a few locations in S England, from Cotswolds to Kent.
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  • SEA CLOVER Trifolium squamosum (Height to 30cm) is a downy annual whose pinkish flowers are borne in rounded to egg-shaped heads, 1cm long (Jun-Jul); in fruit, these heads resemble miniature Teasel heads. Sea Clover grows in coastal grassland and is typically found on grassy sea walls built to protect low-lying land. North Kent is a stronghold for the species.
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  • LIZARD ORCHID Himantoglossum hircinum (Orchidaceae) Height to 1m. Extraordinary orchid of scrub, undisturbed grassland and stabilised dunes. Bizarrely, the flowers smell of goats. FLOWERS have a greenish grey hood, adorned on the inside with reddish streaks, and an extremely long and twisted lip (up to 5cm); borne in tall spikes (May-Jul). FRUITS form and swell at the base of the flowers. LEAVES comprise oval basal leaves that soon wither, and smaller stem leaves that persist. STATUS-Regularly seen in E Kent only; very occasionally turns up elsewhere.
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  • DWARF MILKWORT Polygala amarella (Height to 10cm) is a delicate downland perennial. It is similar to Chalk Milkwort but is smaller overall with tiny, usually pinkish flowers, 3-5mm long (May-Aug). It grows on chalk downs in Kent.
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  • SALTMARSH GOOSEFOOT Chenopodium chenopodioides (Height to 30cm) recalls Red Goosefoot but the mature leaves are always red below and indeed the whole plant is often red-tinged. The reddish green flowers are borne in clusters (Jul-Sep) and the plant grows on drying mud in saltmarshes, with north Kent being the species’ stronghold in our region.
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  • Easily overlooked because it is low growing and soon withers and dries. The stalked leaves are arranged around a stalkless cluster of whitish flowers with pointed bracts (Apr-May). The plant grows on bare shingle and sand near the coast and occurs, very locally, from Pagham Harbour to east Kent.
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  • Wild Boar Sus scrofa Length 1-1.5m Stocky, well-built animal. Ancestor of domesticated Pig. Adult has laterally flattened body. Coat is grizzled grey-brown; comprises just bristle-like guard hairs in summer; dense, with underfur in winter. Coat is often obscured by mud. Head tapers to a blunt snout. Note small eyes are relatively long ears. Adult male (boar) is more powerfully built than female (sow) and has protruding, upwards-pointing tusk-like lower canine teeth. Juvenile (piglet) is reddish brown with longitudinal white stripes. Foraging animals grunt while feeding; barking call uttered in alarm. Wild Boar were driven to extinction in 17th Century. Recently, re-introduced animals and escapees from captivity have formed feral populations, mainly in Sussex and Kent; favours wooded farmland
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  • Wild Boar Sus scrofa Length 1-1.5m Stocky, well-built animal. Ancestor of domesticated Pig. Adult has laterally flattened body. Coat is grizzled grey-brown; comprises just bristle-like guard hairs in summer; dense, with underfur in winter. Coat is often obscured by mud. Head tapers to a blunt snout. Note small eyes are relatively long ears. Adult male (boar) is more powerfully built than female (sow) and has protruding, upwards-pointing tusk-like lower canine teeth. Juvenile (piglet) is reddish brown with longitudinal white stripes. Foraging animals grunt while feeding; barking call uttered in alarm. Wild Boar were driven to extinction in 17th Century. Recently, re-introduced animals and escapees from captivity have formed feral populations, mainly in Sussex and Kent; favours wooded farmland
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  • MONKEY ORCHID Orchis simia (Height to 45cm) has flowers that are fancifully monkey-like. They are borne in cylindrical heads; unlike most other orchids, the flowers open in succession from the top downwards (May-Jun). The Monkey Orchid grows at a few locations in Oxfordshire, with further isolated sites in Kent and Yorkshire.
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  • maid of kent<br />
Emus hirtus
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  • Saltmarsh Goosefoot Chenopodium chenopodioides (Chenopodiaceae). Height to 30cm. Recalls Red Goosefoot but the mature leaves are always red below and indeed the whole plant is often red tinged. The reddish-green flowers are borne in clusters (July-Sep) and the plant grows on drying mud in saltmarshes, with north Kent as its stronghold.
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  • OXTONGUE BROOMRAPE Orobanche artemisiae-campestris (Orobanchaceae) Height to 60cm. Upright, unbranched annual that usually has a purplish-tinged stem. Whole plant lacks chlorophyll and is entirely parasitic on the roots of Hawkweed Oxtongue Picris hieracioides. Found in calcareous grassland and on sea cliffs. FLOWERS are 15-20mm long, the corolla pinkish yellow with purple veins, tubular with smoothly curved dorsal surface, and 2-lipped; filmaents are hairy at base. Flowers borne in open, upright spikes (Jun-Jul). FRUITS are egg-shaped capsules, concealed by the dead flowers. LEAVES are scale-like. STATUS-Very rare. S England only, from cliffs in Kent and Sussex, to Isle of Wight.
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  • LIZARD ORCHID Himantoglossum hircinum (Orchidaceae) Height to 1m. Extraordinary orchid of scrub, undisturbed grassland and stabilised dunes. Bizarrely, the flowers smell of goats. FLOWERS have a greenish grey hood, adorned on the inside with reddish streaks, and an extremely long and twisted lip (up to 5cm); borne in tall spikes (May-Jul). FRUITS form and swell at the base of the flowers. LEAVES comprise oval basal leaves that soon wither, and smaller stem leaves that persist. STATUS-Regularly seen in E Kent only; very occasionally turns up elsewhere.
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  • LEAST LETTUCE (Lactuca saligna (Asteraceae) Height to 1m. Slender annual that is easy to overlook when its flower heads are not open; frustratingly, this happens only on sunny days, between around 9 and 11am. The flower heads themselves are yellow, around 1cm across and are borne at intervals up the stem (July-Aug). Least Lettuce grows on dry ground near the sea and is found locally along the north Kent marshes and Rye Harbour in Sussex.
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  • BEDSTRAW BROOMRAPE Orobanche caryophyllacea (Orobanchaceae) Height to 30cm. A distinctive plant, as broomrapes go. Its flowers are pinkish white or creamy yellow, clove-scented, and borne in spikes (June-July). As its name suggests, the plant is a parasite of bedstraws and grows in grassland, mainly on dunes but rarely also on downland. It is easiest to locate at Sandwich Bay in Kent.
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  • ROUGH MARSH-MALLOW Althaea hirsuta (Malvaceae) Height to 60cm. Upright annual with simple and starry hairs. Found on downland and arable margins. FLOWERS are 25mm across, cup-shaped and long-stalked; pink petals are similar in length to sepals (Jun-Jul). FRUITS are rounded flat capsules. LEAVES are rounded at plant base but dissected up stem. STATUS-Rare, possibly native to Kent and Somerset.
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  • Wild Boar Sus scrofa Length 1-1.5m Stocky, well-built animal. Ancestor of domesticated Pig. Adult has laterally flattened body. Coat is grizzled grey-brown; comprises just bristle-like guard hairs in summer; dense, with underfur in winter. Coat is often obscured by mud. Head tapers to a blunt snout. Note small eyes are relatively long ears. Adult male (boar) is more powerfully built than female (sow) and has protruding, upwards-pointing tusk-like lower canine teeth. Juvenile (piglet) is reddish brown with longitudinal white stripes. Foraging animals grunt while feeding; barking call uttered in alarm. Wild Boar were driven to extinction in 17th Century. Recently, re-introduced animals and escapees from captivity have formed feral populations, mainly in Sussex and Kent; favours wooded farmland
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  • Wild Boar Sus scrofa Length 1-1.5m Stocky, well-built animal. Ancestor of domesticated Pig. Adult has laterally flattened body. Coat is grizzled grey-brown; comprises just bristle-like guard hairs in summer; dense, with underfur in winter. Coat is often obscured by mud. Head tapers to a blunt snout. Note small eyes are relatively long ears. Adult male (boar) is more powerfully built than female (sow) and has protruding, upwards-pointing tusk-like lower canine teeth. Juvenile (piglet) is reddish brown with longitudinal white stripes. Foraging animals grunt while feeding; barking call uttered in alarm. Wild Boar were driven to extinction in 17th Century. Recently, re-introduced animals and escapees from captivity have formed feral populations, mainly in Sussex and Kent; favours wooded farmland
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  • Wild Boar Sus scrofa Length 1-1.5m Stocky, well-built animal. Ancestor of domesticated Pig. Adult has laterally flattened body. Coat is grizzled grey-brown; comprises just bristle-like guard hairs in summer; dense, with underfur in winter. Coat is often obscured by mud. Head tapers to a blunt snout. Note small eyes are relatively long ears. Adult male (boar) is more powerfully built than female (sow) and has protruding, upwards-pointing tusk-like lower canine teeth. Juvenile (piglet) is reddish brown with longitudinal white stripes. Foraging animals grunt while feeding; barking call uttered in alarm. Wild Boar were driven to extinction in 17th Century. Recently, re-introduced animals and escapees from captivity have formed feral populations, mainly in Sussex and Kent; favours wooded farmland
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  • Wild Boar Sus scrofa Length 1-1.5m Stocky, well-built animal. Ancestor of domesticated Pig. Adult has laterally flattened body. Coat is grizzled grey-brown; comprises just bristle-like guard hairs in summer; dense, with underfur in winter. Coat is often obscured by mud. Head tapers to a blunt snout. Note small eyes are relatively long ears. Adult male (boar) is more powerfully built than female (sow) and has protruding, upwards-pointing tusk-like lower canine teeth. Juvenile (piglet) is reddish brown with longitudinal white stripes. Foraging animals grunt while feeding; barking call uttered in alarm. Wild Boar were driven to extinction in 17th Century. Recently, re-introduced animals and escapees from captivity have formed feral populations, mainly in Sussex and Kent; favours wooded farmland
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