FARMLAND PRIORITY SPECIES

National Priorities

Key to habitats (A = Arable, B = Bocage*, I = Improved Grassland)

* Bocage is the general network of fields, hedgerows and other features that make up the farmed countryside

Common Name	Latin Name	Associated Habitats
Brown hare	Lepus capensis	A
Buttoned snout (a moth)	Hypena rostralis	A
Corn parsley	Petroselinum segetum	A
Grasshopper warbler	Locustella naevia	A
Shepherd’s needle	Scandix pecten-veneris	A
Corn bunting	Miliaria calandra	A / B
Grey partridge	Perdix perdix	A / B
Linnet	Carduelis cannabina	A / B
Song thrush	Turdus philomelos	A / B
Tree sparrow	Passer montanus	A / B
Barn owl	Tyto alba	A / B / I
Kestrel	Falco tinnunculus	A / B / I
Skylark	Alauda arvensis	A / B / I
Swallow	Hirundo rustica	A / B / I
Curlew	Numenius arquata	A / I
Golden plover	Pluvialis apricaria	A / I
Quail	Coturnix coturnix	A / I
Bullfinch	Pyrrhula pyrrhula	B
Pipistrelle bat	Pipistrellus pipistrellus	B
Plot’s elm	Ulmus plotii	B
Reed bunting	Emberiza schoeniclus	B
Spotted flycatcher	Muscicapa striata	B
Turtle dove	Streptopelia turtur	B
Redshank	Tringa totanus	I
Sand martin	Riparia riparia	I
Snipe	Gallinago gallinago	I

Local Priorities

Key to habitats (A = Arable, B = Bocage*, I = Improved Grassland)

* Bocage is the general network of fields, hedgerows and other features that make up the farmed countryside

Common Name	Latin Name	Associated Habitats
A beetle	Diplapion stolidum	A
Blue pimpernel	Anagallis arvensis	A
Broad-leaved spurge	Euphorbia platyphyllos	A
Field woundwort	Stachys arvensis	A
Night-flowering catchfly	Silene noctiflora	A
Orange-tailed clearwing	Synanthedon andrenaeformis	A
Pinion-spotted pug (a moth)	Eupithecia insigniata	A
Wild pansy	Viola tricolor	A
A beetle	Anthicus bifasciatus	A / B
a ground beetle	Carabus monilis	A / B
Smooth jet slug	Milax gagates	A / B
A beetle	Anthonomus piri	B
A beetle	Dorytomus filirostris	B
A beetle	Dorytomus ictor	B
A beetle	Hypomedon debilicornis	B
A beetle	Longitarsus parvulus	B
A beetle	Longitarsus suturalis	B
A beetle	Microplontus campestris	B
A beetle	Microplontus triangulum	B
A beetle	Myrmechixenus vaporariorum	B
A beetle	Orthochaetes setiger	B
A beetle	Otiorhynchus desertus	B
A beetle	Philonthus ebininus	B
A beetle	Stenocarus umbrinus	B
A beetle	Tanymecus palliatus	B
Barn owl	Tyto alba	B
Kestrel	Falco tinnunculus	B
Tree snail	Balea perversa	B
Gadwall	Anas strepera	I

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