Wikipedia:WikiProject Biota of Great Britain and Ireland

Welcome to the Biota of Great Britain and Ireland WikiProject, a collaborative effort by a group of wikipedians to coordinate and organize the improvement of all articles related to the flora, fauna and conservation of Great Britain and Ireland. Our members are encouraged to follow all existing policies and guidelines and help bring all related articles to a quality standard. A large emphasis is made on citing reliable sources. If you would like to help, please join the project.

Scope

The scope of this WikiProject is to encompass articles and lists of biota within the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

Where they exist, guidelines of associated WikiProjects should be used in creating content on biota of Great Britain and Ireland. For example, for the European Storm-petrel article, the guidelines of WikiProject Birds should be used.

Open tasks

Article alerts!

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• Article requests
• Sandbox --covering our bases
• Add banners to all BGBI-related articles
• Add BGBI banner to species of Great Britain
  • Mammals
    1. Rodentia
    2. Lagomorpha
    3. Erinaceomorpha
    4. Soricomorpha
    5. Chiroptera
    6. Artiodactyla
    7. Perissodactyla
    8. Carnivora
  • Molluscs
  • Insects
  • Birds
  • Amphibians
  • Reptiles
• Categorise species of Great Britain
  • Mammals to Category:Mammals of Great Britain
  • Molluscs to Category:Molluscs of Great Britain
  • Insects to Category:Insects of Great Britain
  • Birds to Category:Birds of Great Britain
  • Amphibians to Category:Amphibians of Great Britain
  • Reptiles to Category:Reptiles of Great Britain
• Incorporate this sort of information into a horizontal infobox (and create the information if necessary --ideas copied from here) (could also be titled: pages to create):
  • Flora of Great Britain
  • Fauna of Great Britain
  • List of endemic species of the British Isles
  • List of mammals of Great Britain
  • List of birds of Great Britain
  • List of fish of Great Britain
  • List of butterflies of Great Britain
  • List of moths of Great Britain
  • Natural history of Great Britain, Natural history of the United Kingdom
  • List of endangered species of Great Britain, List of endangered species of the United Kingdom, List of endangered species in the British Isles
  • Ecoregions of Great Britain, Ecoregions of the United Kingdom
  • Wildlife Institute of Great Britain, Wildlife Institute of the United Kingdom
  • National parks of Great Britain, National parks of the United Kingdom
  • Biosphere reserves of Great Britain, Biosphere reserves of the United Kingdom
  • Reserved forests and protected forests of Great Britain, Reserved forests and protected forests of the United Kingdom
  • Private protected areas of Great Britain, Private protected areas of the United Kingdom
  • Wildlife sanctuaries of Great Britain, Wildlife sanctuaries of the United Kingdom
  • Forestry in Great Britain, Forestry in the United Kingdom
    • Forestry Commission
  • Conservation in the United Kingdom
    • Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
    • United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan
  • List of zoos in Great Britain, List of zoos in the United Kingdom (Category:Zoos in the United Kingdom)

Participants

Please add your name here, and indicate areas of interest.

• Jack (talk) — Everything (especially mammals)
• Guy Manners (talk) — Lepidoptera, birds, mammals, maybe others
• Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits — Birds, nature reserves, organisations, people, infoboxes and microformats
• Kentynet (talk) — Mammals, Waterfowl, Game Birds, Moorland, woodland and wetland species.
• John (talk) — Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly; lepidoptera;
• Dexxtrall (talk) - Lancashire and Cumbria
• Rileyyoung98 (talk) — Birds and mammals, Ireland-focused

Inactive

• Alex (talk) — Mammalia
• SP-KP (talk) — Flora
• Totnesmartin (talk) Birds, seashore life, herbs, chips, tea.
• Mishae (talk) 02:54, 20 February 2012 (UTC) — British and Irish moths
• Wilbysuffolk (Talk to me!) 18:45, 4 September 2012 (UTC) - Mainly nature reserves owned by various wildlife trusts.

Project status

Featured articles  Fauna of Scotland  September 11, 2008 Featured lists  List of Odonata species of Great Britain  July 23, 2006  List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Merseyside  December 14, 2007 Good articles  Avon Gorge  September 27, 2008  British Birds Rarities Committee  November 15, 2007  Somerset Levels  September 27, 2008  Vipera berus  May 24, 2007

Statistics Biota of Great Britain and Ireland articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Mid Low NA Total GA 1 1 C 3 3 Start 4 4 Stub 1 1 Other 2 1 3 Assessed 1 10 1 12 Total 1 10 1 12

Hot articles

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These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 30 December 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

Article alerts

Articles to be split

• 01 Dec 2023 – Marthasterias (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Plantdrew (t · c); see discussion

Templates

Userbox

Participants may add the following userbox to their page with the following: {{User WikiProject BGBI}}

This user participates in
WikiProject Biota of
Great Britain and Ireland.

Banner

{{Biota of Great Britain and Ireland|class=|importance=}}

Navigational templates

{{Template:Fauna of Great Britain}}

{{Template:Animals of Ireland}}

Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Park}} (despite name; also used for nature reserves)

Categories

An attempt to show to current mess of categorisation. This is a non-exhaustive list of possible options you have when wanting to categorise biota from the British Isles.

Great Britain

• Category:Fauna of Great Britain (see Fauna of Great Britain)
  • Category:Lists of insects of Great Britain
  • (Mammals: see List of British mammals)
• Category:Flora of Great Britain

Ireland

• Natural history of Ireland
• Category:Biota of Ireland
• Category:Fauna of Ireland
  • Category:Animal breeds originating in Ireland
    • Category:Dog breeds originating in Ireland
• Category:Flora of Ireland

United Kingdom

• Category:Natural history of the United Kingdom
• Category:Biota of the United Kingdom
  • Lists of biota of the United Kingdom
• Category:Fauna of the United Kingdom
• Category:Flora of the United Kingdom
  • Trees of the United Kingdom
• Category:Nature reserves in the United Kingdom
• Lists of biota of the United Kingdom

British

• Category:British National Vegetation Classification
• Lists of British animals

British Isles

• Category:Fauna of the British Isles
  • Category:British Isles coastal fauna
  • Category:Lists of insects in the British Isles
• Endemic insects of the British Isles
  • Category:Lists of beetles in the British Isles
  • Lists of the vascular plants of the British Isles

Scotland

• Fauna of Scotland
• Wildlife of Shetland
• Natural history of Scotland
• Flora of Scotland

England

• Fauna of England
• Natural history of England
• List of birds of Leicestershire and Rutland

• Flora of England

Wales

• Natural history of Wales
• Flora of Wales
  • Trees of Wales

Categorisation standard

A possible idea standard with * being replaced with Great Britain/United Kingdom/etc.

• Natural history of *
• Category:Biota of *
  • Category:Fauna of *
    • Category:Amphibians of *
    • Category:Reptiles of *
    • Category:Amphibians of *
    • Category:Mammals of *
    • Category:Insects of * incl. categories of families e.g.
      • Category:Butterflies of *
      • Category:Moths of *
    • Category:Fish of *
    • Category:Birds of *
    • Category:Non-marine molluscs of * etc.
  • Category:Flora of *
  • Category:Fungi of *

Lists

• Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland

Great Britain

Fauna

• Lists of insects of Great Britain
  • List of bees of Great Britain
  • List of wasps of Great Britain
  • List of ants of Great Britain
  • List of aquatic heteropteran bug species of Great Britain
  • List of beetles of Great Britain
    • List of click beetle (Elateridae) species recorded in Britain
    • List of dung beetle and chafer (Scarabaeoidea) species recorded in Britain
    • List of ground beetle (Carabidae) species recorded in Britain
    • List of ladybirds and related beetle species recorded in Britain
    • List of leaf beetle (Chrysomelidae) species recorded in Britain
    • List of longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae) species recorded in Britain
    • List of pollen beetles (Nitidulidae) recorded in Britain
    • List of rove beetle (Staphylinidae) species recorded in Britain
    • List of soldier beetle (Cantharidae) species recorded in Britain
    • List of beetle species recorded in Britain - superfamily Tenebrionoidea
    • List of water beetle species recorded in Britain
    • List of weevil (Curculionoidea) species recorded in Britain
  • List of butterflies of Great Britain
  • List of moths of Great Britain
  • List of conopid fly species of Great Britain
  • List of Odonata species of Great Britain
  • List of hoverfly species of Great Britain
  • List of Orthoptera and allied insects of Great Britain
  • List of shield bug species of Great Britain
  • List of soldierflies and allies of Great Britain
• List of non-marine molluscs of Great Britain
• List of amphibians of Great Britain
• List of fish of Great Britain
• List of birds of Great Britain
  • List of non-native birds of Great Britain
  • List of birds of Wales
  • List of birds of Leicestershire and Rutland
• List of mammals of Great Britain
• List of reptiles of Great Britain
• List of fauna of the Scottish Highlands
• Deer of Great Britain
• List of British Isles rockpool life
• Fauna of England
• Fauna of Scotland
• List of endangered species in the British Isles
• List of extinct animals of the British Isles

Flora

• List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland
• Trees of Britain and Ireland
• List of endemic species of the British Isles

Habitat

• List of plant communities in the British National Vegetation Classification

Ireland

Fauna

• List of birds of Ireland
• Fauna of Ireland
• List of Odonata species of Ireland
• List of amphibians of Ireland
• List of butterflies of Ireland
• List of mammals of Ireland
• List of non-marine molluscs of Ireland

Flora

• List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland
• Trees of Britain and Ireland

Resources

Related projects

• WikiProject Tree of Life