FLORA - Plant life

This includes everything from the smallest lichen to the largest tree

426 Species of Flora have been identified in Berengrave LNR

FAUNA - Animal life

This includes all species of mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and aquatic life

625 species of Fauna have been reported in Berengrave LNR

112 species of birds have been seen in Berengrave LNR and the Rainham Dock area of the River Medway

BIRDS of BERENGRAVE LNR (Alphabetically by common name)
Including those that have been seen in Rainham Dock and adjacent River Medway

Information from surveys by Medway Council

Click on a bird for more information
(Links by kind permission of the RSPB)

Barn owl
Bearded tit
Bittern
Blackbird
Blackcap
Black-headed gull
Black redstart
Blue tit
Brambling
Brent goose
Bullfinch

Canada goose
Carrion crow
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Coal tit
Collared dove
Common gull
Common sandpiper
Coot
Corn bunting
Cuckoo

Dunlin
Dunnock

Fieldfare

Garden warbler
Goldcrest
Goldfinch

Grasshopper warbler
Great spotted woodpecker

Great tit
Greenfinch
Green sandpiper
Green woodpecker
Grey heron
Greylag goose
Grey wagtail

Hawfinch
Hen harrier
Hobby
House martin
House sparrow

Jackdaw
Jack snipe
Jay

Kestrel
Kingfisher

Lapwing
Lesser whitethroat
Linnet
Little egret
Little grebe
Long-eared owl
Long-tailed tit

Lesser Redpoll

Magpie
Mallard
Marsh harrier
Meadow pipit
Merlin
Mistle thrush
Moorhen
Mute swan

Nightingale
Nuthatch

Peregrine falcon
Pheasant
Pied wagtail

Skylark
Snipe
Song thrush
Sparrowhawk
Spotted crake
Spotted flycatcher
Spotted redshank
Starling
Stock dove
Stonechat
Swallow
Swift

Teal
Treecreeper
Tree sparrow
Turtle dove

Water rail
Wheatear
Whinchat
Whitethroat
Wigeon
Willow warbler
Woodcock
Woodpigeon
Wren
Wryneck

Yellowhammer
Yellow wagtail

Other ANIMALS of BERENGRAVE LNR

Information from surveys by Medway Council

 AMPHIBIANS

 REPTILES

 MAMMALS

Common frog
Common newt
Common toad
Marsh frog

Adder
Common lizard
Grass snake
Slow-worm

  Bank vole
Brown rat
Common shrew
Fox
Grey squirrel
Harvest mouse
Hedgehog
Mole
Pipistrelle bat
Pygmy shrew
Rabbit
Short-tailed field vole
Stoat
Water vole
Weasel
Wood mouse

Précis of species noted in
bERENGRAVE LOCAL NATURE RESERVE

Information from surveys by Medway Council

Trees and shrubs
Other flowering plants
Sedges and rushes
Grasses
Ferns
Mosses
Fungi
Liverworts
Lichens
Terrestrial algae
Aquatic algae
Horsetails
Birds
Mammals
Fish
Reptiles & amphibians
Butterflies
Dragonflies
Macro moths
Micro moths

52
184
14
21
4
26
83
2
28
1
10
1
112
16
10
8
24
13
122
47

Terrestrial snails
Aquatic snails
Bivalvia
Caddis flies
True bugs
Beetles
May flies
Grasshoppers & crickets
Bees, wasps, ants, etc.
Earwigs
Two-winged flies
Water mites
Crustacea
Flatworms
Leeches
Springtails
Spiders & harvestmen
Alder flies, snake flies &
lacewings
 

17
7
1
4
27
28
1
7
15
1
169
1
4
2
2
1
7

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 Full species lists are available from the visitor centre at
Riverside Country Park
Tel: 01634 337432

riversidecp@medway.gov.uk