Help your child learn all about the trees they might find in the UK and the wildlife that calls them home. An activity for parents in partnership with The Wildlife Trusts.
. They’re all able to look at the shape of a tree, its bark, leaves, flowers and fruit and tell you exactly what species of tree it is.
There are many types of tree in the UK, but your child doesn’t need to recognise them all to get on their way to becoming a dendrologist or an arboriculturist. Learning to spot just a few of our most common trees, like the english oak, silver birch, or white willow, is great start.
Your child will also be able to spot an english oak by its fruit, the acorn, which you can see among the leaves or on the ground underneath the tree. Squirrels love to gather and bury stashes of acorns for the winter. Trees are also an important habitat for mammals, birds and insects, so encourage your child to keep a keen eye out. Animals that live in trees, like squirrels and many species of bird, are known as. If you’re visiting a woodland, you’re likely to see lots of animals that love living among trees, including roe deer, woodpeckers, chaffinches and wood warblers, butterflies like the speckled wood, as well as lots of special species of plants, like wood sorrel.
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