Here are some websites which you can use as information sources if you live in the UK. There are many sites on the web about wildlife and gardening, so I have been very selective. Go to my 'Citizen Science' page for more links relating specifically to wildlife recording that you can do at home.
UPDATED DECEMBER 2009
For general information about wildlife-friendly gardening:
Wildlife Gardening With Jenny Steel: www.wildlife-gardening.co.uk
Jenny Steel is a well-known author on wildlife gardening.
British Garden Birds: www.garden-birds.co.uk
An independent site full of information about garden birds.
'Wild About Gardens': www.wildaboutgardens.org
A site set up jointly by the Wildlife Trusts and the RHS. One of the best information sources. If you get beyond the home page by clicking on items in the top menu bar such as 'habitats' or 'plants', you will be taken to pages with long subsidiary menus that link to masses of information.
The Big Wildlife Garden:
www.bwg.naturalengland.org.uk
This is a new site set up autumn 2009 by Natural England. The idea is that you sign up, and can receive recognition for all the wildlife-friendly features you have in your garden, and you can share information. Still has that clunky feel of an institutional website, but it is early days yet end it has potential.
The Kids Garden www.thekidsgarden.co.uk
Lots of ideas for creative gardening with children, including suggestions involving garden wildlife.
Biodiversity in Urban Gardens: www.bugs.group.shef.ac.uk
Website of the BUGS projects at Sheffield University, important scientific research to assess the role of gardens as wildlife habitat. You can download the published scientific papers from BUGS 1 as pdf files. (For a very readable layperson's summary of the results, see Ken Thompson's book 'No Nettles Requred' - details on my Reading page.) BUGS 2 is now also complete.
Some personal sites:
My Wildlife Friendly Garden www.mywildlifefriendlygarden.com
A nice personal site from a wildlife gardener showing that you don't have to have a huge garden to attract wildlife.
The Garden Meadow www.meadowgarden.co.uk An site from a wildlife gardener in South Wales who turned his small lawn into a meadow without digging and re-sowing it.
My Garden - A Garden through the Season: www.mygarden.me.uk
Interesting site about a private garden in Criccieth, North Wales which contains lots of exotics but is still supporting biodiversity.
The Big Buzz www.thebigbuzz.biz
Personal website and blog from a wildlife gardener, photographer, and poet in Yorkshire.
Jeremy Biggs Garden Pond Blog (part of the Pond Conservation website)
http://thegardenpondblog.org.uk/
Shirls Gardenwatch Blog
http://blog.shirlsgardenwatch.co.uk/
Organisations:
Butterfly Conservation: www.butterfly-conservation.org
Website of the UK's national moth and butterfly conservation organisation. Members of Butterfly Conservation can complete an annual garden butterfly survey.
UK Moths: www.ukmoths.org.uk
An on-line identification guide to the moths of Britain and Ireland, with over a thousand pictures.
Back Garden Moths: www.back-garden-moths.co.uk
Another excellent site with forums and a gallery, designed to encourage an awareness of UK moths.
The Bumblebee Pages: www.bumblebee.org
Laura Smith's bumblebee site is a mine of information about bumblebees, a group of insects that can benefit very readily from wildlife-friendly gardening.
Solitary Bees www.insectpix.net
Excellent site about solitary bees and some of their favourite flowers, from Nigel Jones in Shropshire
Bumblebee Conservation Trust www.bumblebeeconservation.org.uk
Founded in the Summer of 2006, a small organisation with a big profile. Bumblebees are one group of species where gardeners can make a real difference.
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (incorporating 'Froglife') www.arc-trust.org
Conserving Britain's reptiles and Amphibians
Pond Conservation www.pondconservation.org.uk
Pond Conservation is a national charity dedicated to creating and protecting ponds and the wildlife they support. Read Jeremy Biggs' Garden Pond Blog for ideas about making a garden pond that contradict what the textbooks tell us.
Buglife: www.buglife.org.uk
A national invertebrate conservation organisation.
Bat Conservation Trust www.bats.org.uk Gardeners can help bats by growing plants that support the insects that bats feed on.
National Moth Night www.nationalmothnight.info
Info about National Moth Night and how you can take part. It takes place in a different month each year; in 2010 it will be in May.
British Trust for Ornithology: www.bto.org
Gardeners can take part in the weekly Garden Bird Watch.
Nature's Calendar: UK Phenology Network: www.phenology.org.uk
You can get involved in recording changes in natural phenomena.
Swifts: www.londons-swifts.org.uk This site has lots of information, not just for London, and links to other Swift sites. Swifts are insectivorous birds that spend their lives in the air and never touch the ground. They migrate here from Africa and breed in nooks and crannies in urban buildings between May and July, hunting for insects above our gardens and parks. You can fix special Swift next boxes under the eaves of your house or flats to help them.
British Trees: www.woodland-trust.org.uk/britishtrees
Well-designed and informative site about growing native trees.
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