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Over the years we have collected an enormous number of images of the flora and fauna of the British isles and we wish to display these images here on this site alongside images taken by Richard Ford of Digital Wildlife. However we wish to do this both in the most scientific manner and the most user friendly way possible but we also wish to see how the British birds, British wild flowers and British native trees and shrubs fit into the natural order of things on a worldwide scale.
Wild flowers found on a building site in Cambridgeshire
Please therefore find here our natural history database of the flora and fauna of the world. The structure of the British Wildlife database roughly follows that of APG II (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group). The scientific naming of plants and animals, or taxonomy, is constantly changing as science advances so please be aware that we are not endeavouring to keep up with each and every change and we are largely concerned here with British birds, British wild flowers and British native trees and shrubs found either on the British Isles or somewhere in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
You can get an idea of how Taxonomy, or scientific naming convention, is structured from the table below which displays where the four most popular British pets fit into the order of things;
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This will be a large project and will take some time to complete however to date there are already in excess of 450,000 entries in the database. Our goal is to link individual species to either specific locations or general areas with the UK allowing the user to determine what they may find in the way of wildlife and wild flowers in any particular part of the county.
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