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Butterflies
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Mosses
Moths
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Plants
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New and Noteworthy
Cuckoo, a
documentary filmed
at Wicken Fen, on
BBC2 8pm, Jan 9th
(December 08)
Monthly bird reports
(December 2008)
Wicken Fen Vision
Spine Route
(Sep 08)
Ditch Flora Project
(August 08)
Wicken Fen Vision
FAQs
(June 08)

Wicken Fen Vision
Newsletter (May 08)

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New Species

Wicken Fen is one of the best studied nature reserves in Britain and there have been many detailed, expert surveys of its wildlife over the past 100 years. However, new species are regularly added to the Fen records. For example, in 1999 there were 20 new species and in 2006, an impressive 28 new species for Wicken.

Here are some of the species that have been added to the species list for Wicken Fen in recent years.

Birds

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Alpine Swift – June 1998

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Curlew Sandpiper – September 1998

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Kittiwake – December 1999

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Knot – August 1999

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Little Gull – April 1999

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Slavonian Grebe – November 1998

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Water Pipit – January 1998

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Yellow-legged Gull – May 2003

Mammals

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Whiskered Bat Myotis mystacinus – 1998

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Chinese Water Deer Hydropotes inermis - 1982

Insects

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Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma viridulum – July 2006

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Pine Carpet Moth Thera fermata - July 2005

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Twin-spot Carpet Moth Perizoma didymata - July 2005

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Dotted Footman Moth Pelosia muscerda - July 2004

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Orange Footman Moth Eilema sororcula - June 2005

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Wormwood Moth Cucullia absinthii - July 2006

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Shaded Fan-foot Moth Herminia tarsicrinalis - July 2006

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Plume Moth Emmelina argoteles – new to Britain when found by Jeff Higgott at Wicken Fen in 2005

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Diving Beetle Hygrotus nigrolineatus – in Tubney Mere 2007

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Diving Beetle Hygrotus confluens – Baker’s Fen 2006

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Leaf Beetle Longitarsus dorsalis – Vision land 2006

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Weevil Trichosirocalus horridus – Vision land 2004

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Rove Beetles Tachinus flavolimbatus and Dalotia coriaria – in sedge litter 2007

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Saproxylic beetle Tomoxia bucephala – from around dead poplar 2006

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Caddisfly Ecnomus tenellus - 2005

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Caddisfly Limnephilus sparsus – 2005

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Caddisfly Goera pilosa - 2006

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Heteroptera (bug) Psallus perrisi- on oak 2002

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Heteroptera (bug) Stictopleurus punctatonervosus – once extinct in UK now re-colonising, reached Wicken 2002.

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Solitary Bee Nomada xanthosticta – 2006

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Solitary Bee Nomada goodeniana – 2006

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A Horsefly Tabanus autumnalis – 1998

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A Soldierfly Sargus bipunctatus – 1990

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A Hoverfly Heringia heringi – 2001

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Common Ground Hopper Tetrix undulata – 1998

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Roesel's Bush Cricket Metrioptera roeselii - 1998

Plants

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Liverwort Riccia cavernosa (Cavernous Crystalwort) –uncommon liverwort found on the Vision land in 2005

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Liverwort Frullania tamarisci – not only new for Wicken but also for Cambridgeshire in 2003

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Moss Bryum gemmiferum – Vision land 2005

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Moss Didymodon falla, – Vision land 2005

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Moss Leptobryum pyriforme – Vision land 2005

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Great Prickly Lettuce Lactuca serriola – frequent on Burwell Fen 2003

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New Zealand Pygmyweed Crassula helmsii – an unwelcome alien species, in Adventurers’ Fen 2005

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Common Cudweed Filago vulgaris – by the visitor centre in gravel 2004

Fungi

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Psathyrella panaeoloides – a rare fungi 2004

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Ramicola laevigata -small brown fungi found on sedge fragments 2003

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Corpinus patouillardii­ – an ink cap fungus 2004

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A lichen Sarcogyne regularis - 2008

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A lichen Verrucaria macrostoma - 2008

 

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