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25-08-2006, 09:40 AM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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| | | What would you like to find?
Is there any particular species of bird/insect/mammal/plant/fungi etc that you would like to discover or rediscover when it was thought extinct in Britain? Mine would be the Dainty Damselfly that was made extinct in Essex in the 1953 flood.
I'd also like to discover my own dinosaur-but that's a different subject!
Julie 
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25-08-2006, 10:59 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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| | | Re: What would you like to find?
Greater Mouse-Eared bat (Myotis myotis)
they're out there somewhere mark my words........  |
25-08-2006, 11:20 AM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Coventry
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| | | Re: What would you like to find?
Hi
I would like to see wolves, I know they keep on about introducing them in Scotland, but don’t think they have yet.
There a fascinating animal covered in myths and fear, only chance of seeing one is in a zoo, and I’m not very keen on them.
I know this could be a bone of contention with a lot of people but you did ask
Mick
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25-08-2006, 11:46 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Coventry
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| | | Re: What would you like to find?
I would like to see that the re-introduction of the Great Bustard to Salisbury Plains was a complete success.
John |
25-08-2006, 05:26 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Chilterns
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| | | Re: What would you like to find?
I'd like to rediscover the Auroch.
Dodos are cool too
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25-08-2006, 05:39 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Leicestershire
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| | | Re: What would you like to find?
Orange-spotted Emerald Dragonfly Oxygastra curtisii would have to be the species I would like to re-discover.
Its not been seen for over 40 years in the UK but there's a slim chance its still out there somewhere.
Failing that the giant prehistoric Dragonfly Protodonata would be excellent, with a wingspan of over 1 metre you shouldn't have to get too close to get a full frame image  |
25-08-2006, 05:39 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sheffield
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I'd like to discover the other 2,400 or so macro fungi which have so far eluded me! I've plenty of film |
25-08-2006, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Fourwings Failing that the giant prehistoric Dragonfly Protodonata would be excellent, with a wingspan of over 1 metre you shouldn't have to get too close to get a full frame image | Some interesting images here if you have not already seen them - http://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/st...a/gallfoss.htm |
25-08-2006, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by eeyore I'd like to rediscover the Auroch.
Dodos are cool too | ...and a wooly rhino...
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25-08-2006, 10:29 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Cheshire UK
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| | | Re: What would you like to find?
I'd like to see something new for me, I do not really mind what it was...but if pushed I would choose some of the large Ichneumon mimic craneflies
bugbotherer |
26-08-2006, 07:22 AM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Heswall, Merseyside
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How I wish before I die to hear and see the Cuckoo like it used to be when I was young, It's over fourty years now since Iv'e heard that bird here in the Wirral. I would also like to find the Emperor Moth larvae on the bramble bushes like in the old days. Rachel Carsons, Silent Spring came true. |
28-08-2006, 05:19 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Banbury, Oxfordshire
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Originally Posted by Gill Catton | This is actually back on the british list as peeple have found quite a few recently and young to show they are breeding in this country.
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28-08-2006, 05:33 PM
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Triffids........ |
28-08-2006, 05:48 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Banbury, Oxfordshire
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Although not extinct, I'd like to find one of our rare herps somewhere as i've only seen then in captivity. ie Sand Lizard, Smooth Snake or Natterjack Toad
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28-08-2006, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by pheonix This is actually back on the british list as peeple have found quite a few recently and young to show they are breeding in this country. | ahha I'm clearly too slow........
that's good then, I knew they would still be there somewhere..... | |
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