Animals
- 26 species of mammal have been recorded on the site including the nationally rare Water Vole.
- 116 species of bird have been recorded. The Common is a nationally important breeding area for European Nightjar, Woodlark and Dartford Warbler.
- 9 species of reptiles and amphibians have been recorded including the nationally rare Sand Lizard.
- The Common is nationally important for its invertebrate fauna being the best site in the UK for spiders, hymenoptera (bees wasp and ants) and ladybirds - it is one of the last two sites on the mainland UK for the Red barbed ant Formica rufibarbis.
- 23 species of dragonfly
- 33 species of butterfly including large colonies of the rare Silver Studded Blue have been recorded.
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Famous quotes containing the word animals:
“There is no instant of time when one creature is not being devoured by another. Over all these numerous races of animals man is placed, and his destructive hand spares nothing that lives. He kills to obtain food and he kills to clothe himself; he kills to adorn himself; he kills in order to attack and he kills to defend himself; he kills to instruct himself and he kills to amuse himself; he kills to kill. Proud and terrible king, he wants everything and nothing resists him.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Shall we never have done with that cliché, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they’ll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they’ll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)