Wild Isles Animal List

I'm so enjoying Wild Isles, narrated by David Attenborough. Many animals from Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland are featured in this documentary series, but there are several very in-depth animal profiles that I want to remember about for the next time I teach Zoology. So here are some notes.

Wild Isles - Behind the scenes secrets and wildlife stories from the new series, presented by Sir David Attenborough - BBC (interesting series stats)

The Human Being and the Animal World
by Charles Kovacs

if you're using this book, there is footage in this series for:
The Cuttlefish
The Gray Seal
The Red Deer
The Golden Eagle

Episode 1 - Our Precious Isles
What's it all about?

successful hunt:
harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) and gray seal #1 (Halichoerus grypus)
orca (Orcinus orca)

golden eagle #1 (Aquila chrysaetos)

parent and young / mild peril:
hazel dormouse #1 (Muscardinus avellanarius)
tawny owl (Strix aluco)

parent and young:
badger (Meles meles)

pollination:
red valerian & hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum)
bittersweet & bumblebee
lords-and-ladies & owl midge fly

parent and young / successful hunt:
red fox #1 (Vulpes vulpes)

successful hunt:
barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis)
white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)

battle for female / mating:
banded demoiselle damselfly (Calopteryx splendens)

successful hunt:
brown trout (Salmo trutta) and minnow
kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

northern gannet #1 (Morus bassanus)

lesser sandeel #1 (Ammodytes tobianus)

fight over food:
puffin (Fratercula arctica)
herring gull (Larus argentatus)
black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)

Episode 2 - Woodland
What's it all about?

parent and young:
golden eagle #2

hazel dormouse #2

animal partnership:
European robin (Erithacus rubecula)
wild boar (Sus scrofa)

a note for Botany
wonderful footage of wind pollination and yews

battle for female / mating:
capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)

successful hunt:
caterpillar
wood ant

animal partnership:
wood ant
aphid

parent and young / mild peril:
roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)
red fox #2

battle for female
purple emperor butterfly (Apatura iris)

mating:
ash-black slug (Limax cinereoniger)

fight over food:
red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)

parent and young / first flight:
honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus)

battle for female:
fallow deer (Dama dama)

a note for Mycology
38:10 - 42:20

mild peril:
starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
common buzzard #1 (Buteo buteo)
peregrine falcon #1 (Falco peregrinus)

THERMAL CAMERA successful hunt:
starling
barn owl (Tyto alba)

Episode 3 - Grassland
What's it all about?

battle for female / mild peril:
brown hare (Lepus europaeus)
golden eagle #3

lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

successful hunt:
oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
common gull (Larus canus)

battle for female:
horse (Equus ferus caballus)

parent and young / mild peril:
field vole (Microtus agrestis)
short-eared owl (Asio flammeus)

animal partnership:
two-coloured mason-bee (Osmia bicolor)
glow-worm larvae (Lampyris noctiluca)

parent and young:
two-coloured mason-bee

successful hunt:
rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
common buzzard #2

mating:
rabbit

THERMAL CAMERA parent and young / successful hunt:
red fox #3

chemical & acoustic trickery:
large blue butterfly (Maculinea arion)
Myrmica sabuleti

The Curious Case of the Large Blue Butterfly

Carnivorous Caterpillars Fool Ants by Sounding Like Queens

battle for female / mating:
black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)

battle for female / mating:
adder (Vipera berus)

courtship sky dance / parent and young:
hen harrier (Circus cyaneus)

battle for female:
red deer #1 (Cervus elaphus)

Episode 4 - Freshwater
What's it all about?

successful hunt:
dragonfly
hobby (Falco subbuteo)

successful hunt:
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
bottlenose dophin #1 (Tursiops truncatus)

mating:
Atlantic salmon

successful hunt:
European otter #1 (Lutra lutra)

parent and young:
beaver (Castor fiber)

successful hunt:
osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

successful hunt:
diving beetle larva and dragonfly
great raft spider (Dolomedes plantarius)

mating:
great raft spider

a note for Geology
limestone caves, stalactites & stalagmites

THERMAL CAMERA courtship sky dance:
Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii)

battle for female / mild peril:
common toad (Bufo bufo)

mating:
common toad

successful hunt:
common toad
horse leech (Haemopis sanguisuga)

successful hunt:
mayfly
many animals!

courtship sky dance / mating:
mayfly

successful hunt:
dragonfly larva
water shrew (Neomys fodiens)

red deer #2

battle for female / parent and young:
great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus)

successful hunt:
knot (Calidris canutus)
peregrine falcon #2

Episode 5 - Ocean
What's it all about?

there are many unidentified animals in this episode compared to the others

Gulf Stream
The Major Ocean Currents of the World

parent and young / battle for female:
gray seal #2

courtship underwater dance:
long-snouted seahose (Hippocampus guttulatus)

successful hunt:
common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)

bioluminescent algae

seafloor migration:
royal flush sea slug (Akera bullata)

seafloor migration / molting:
European spider crab (Maja squinado)

tides and Corryvreckan Whirlpool

brittle stars and sea cucumbers
hermit crab
whelk (Buccinum undatum)

successful hunt:
queen scallop (Aequipecten opercularis)
seven-armed starfish (Luidia ciliaris)

successful hunt:
European otter #2
eelpout (Zoarces viviparus)

a note for Botany
kelp forest

parent and young / mild peril:
clingfish
sea urchin

algal bloom and ocean food web
beautiful close-up shots of zooplankton!

phytoplankton --->
zooplankton --->
sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus) --->
melon comb jelly (Beroe cucumis)

phytoplankton --->
zooplankton --->
basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)

phytoplantkon --->
zooplankton --->
lesser sandeel #2 --->
bottlenose dolphin #2 and Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)

successful hunt:
mackerel (Scomber scombrus) and herring (Clupea harengus)
northern gannet #2

first flight:
Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)

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