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75 relations: Alauda, Barrister, Bristol Channel, Chough, Common chiffchaff, Common whitethroat, Corticioid fungi, Crown Estate, Dale Castle, Devonian, Essex, European herring gull, European pied flycatcher, European storm petrel, Fault (geology), Frederick Parker-Rhodes, Grassland, Great black-backed gull, Guillemot, Harwich, House mouse, Hypericum perforatum, Irish Sea Glacier, John Perrot, Last glacial period, Lavatera, Lesser black-backed gull, Lichen, Listed building, Manx shearwater, Martin's Haven, Milford Haven, Mudstone, Normans, Npower (United Kingdom), Old Norse, Old Red Sandstone, Ornithology, Oystercatcher, Pembrokeshire, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Puffin, Rabbit, Ranunculus, Razorbill, Redstart, Robert fitz Martin, Ronald Lockley, Salt marsh, Sandstone, ..., Seabird, Shearwater, Silene uniflora, Silurian, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Skokholm Lighthouse, Skomer, St George's Channel, Stockholm, Storm petrel, Sweden, Syncline, Teloschistes, Till, Trinity House, Type (biology), Urtica urens, Victorian era, Vikings, Wales, Wharf, Wheatear, Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, William Philipps, Willow warbler. Expand index (25 more) »
Alauda
Alauda is a genus of larks found across much of Europe, Asia and in the mountains of north Africa, and one of the species (the Raso lark) endemic to the islet of Raso in the Cape Verde Islands.
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Barrister
A barrister (also known as barrister-at-law or bar-at-law) is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.
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Bristol Channel
The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England.
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Chough
There are two species of passerine birds commonly called chough that constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae (crow) family of birds.
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Common chiffchaff
The common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), or simply the chiffchaff, is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds in open woodlands throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia.
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Common whitethroat
The common whitethroat (Sylvia communis) is a common and widespread typical warbler which breeds throughout Europe and across much of temperate western Asia.
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Corticioid fungi
The corticioid fungi are a group of fungi in the Basidiomycota typically having effused, smooth basidiocarps (fruit bodies) that are formed on the undersides of dead tree trunks or branches.
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Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is a collection of lands and holdings in the United Kingdom belonging to the British monarch as a corporation sole, making it the "Sovereign's public estate", which is neither government property nor part of the monarch's private estate.
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Dale Castle
Dale Castle is a 13th-century castle located close to the village of Dale in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya.
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Essex
Essex is a county in the East of England.
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European herring gull
The European herring gull (Larus argentatus) is a large gull (up to long).
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European pied flycatcher
The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.
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European storm petrel
The European storm petrel, British storm petrel or just storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) is a seabird in the northern storm petrel family, Hydrobatidae.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.
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Frederick Parker-Rhodes
Arthur Frederick Parker-Rhodes (21 November 1914 – 2 March 1987) was an English linguist, plant pathologist, computer scientist, mathematician, mystic, and mycologist, who also introduced original theories in physics.
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Grassland
Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.
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Great black-backed gull
The great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), mistakenly called greater black-backed gull by some, is the largest member of the gull family.
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Guillemot
Guillemots is the common name for several species of seabird in the auk family (part of the order Charadriiformes).
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Harwich
Harwich is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east.
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House mouse
The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a small mammal of the order Rodentia, characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, and a long naked or almost hairless tail.
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Hypericum perforatum
Hypericum perforatum, known as perforate St John's-wort, common Saint John's wort and St John's wort, is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae.
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Irish Sea Glacier
The Irish Sea Glacier was a huge glacier during the Pleistocene Ice Age that, probably on more than one occasion, flowed southwards from its source areas in Scotland and Ireland and across the Isle of Man, Anglesey and Pembrokeshire.
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John Perrot
Sir John Perrot (7–11 November 1528 – 3 November 1592) served as Lord Deputy to Queen Elizabeth I of England during the Tudor conquest of Ireland.
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Last glacial period
The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.
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Lavatera
Lavatera is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, central and eastern Asia, North America (California and Mexico) and Australia.
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Lesser black-backed gull
The lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe.
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Lichen
A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship.
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Listed building
A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.
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Manx shearwater
The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.
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Martin's Haven
Martin’s Haven is a small bay in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK.
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Milford Haven
Milford Haven (Aberdaugleddau, meaning "mouth of the two Rivers Cleddau") is a town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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Mudstone
Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
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Normans
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.
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Npower (United Kingdom)
Npower Limited (trading as npower) is an electricity generator and supplier of gas and electricity to homes and businesses which is based in the United Kingdom, formerly known as Innogy plc.
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Old Norse
Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.
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Old Red Sandstone
The Old Red Sandstone is an assemblage of rocks in the North Atlantic region largely of Devonian age.
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Ornithology
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.
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Oystercatcher
The oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus.
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Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire (or; Sir Benfro) is a county in the southwest of Wales.
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Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Arfordir Penfro) is a national park along the Pembrokeshire coast in west Wales.
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Puffin
Puffins are any of three small species of alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak during the breeding season.
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Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).
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Ranunculus
Ranunculus is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae.
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Razorbill
The razorbill (Alca torda) is a colonial seabird that comes to land only to breed.
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Redstart
Redstarts are a group of small Old World birds.
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Robert fitz Martin
Robert fitz Martin (10?? – c. 1159) was a Norman knight from the west of England who supported Henry I in his campaigns in Wales.
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Ronald Lockley
Ronald Mathias Lockley (8 November 1903 – 12 April 2000) was a Welsh ornithologist and naturalist.
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Salt marsh
A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.
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Shearwater
Shearwaters are medium-sized long-winged seabirds.
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Silene uniflora
Silene uniflora is a species of flowering plant in the pink family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name sea campion.
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Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.
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Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.
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Skokholm Lighthouse
Skokholm Lighthouse is a lighthouse found on the small Welsh island of Skokholm, just off the south-west coast of Pembrokeshire.
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Skomer
Skomer is an island off the coast of Pembrokeshire in west Wales.
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St George's Channel
St George's Channel (Sianel San Siôr, Muir Bhreatan) is a sea channel connecting the Irish Sea to the north and the Celtic Sea to the southwest.
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Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.
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Storm petrel
Storm petrel may refer to one of two bird families, both in the order Procellariiformes, once treated as the same family.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Syncline
In structural geology, a syncline is a fold with younger layers closer to the center of the structure.
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Teloschistes
Teloschistes is a genus of lichens in the family Teloschistaceae.
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Till
Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.
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Trinity House
The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, known as Trinity House (formally The Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent), is a private corporation governed under a Royal Charter (rather than a non-departmental public body).
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Type (biology)
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached.
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Urtica urens
Urtica urens, commonly known as annual nettle, dwarf nettle, small nettle, dog nettle or burning nettle, is a herbaceous annual flowering plant species in the nettle family Urticaceae.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Vikings
Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Wharf
A wharf, quay (also), staith or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbor or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
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Wheatear
The wheatears are passerine birds of the genus Oenanthe.
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Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales (WTSWW, Ymddiriedolaeth Natur De a Gorllewin Cymru) is a Wildlife Trust in south and west Wales, one of 47 such Trusts in the United Kingdom.
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William Philipps
William Philipps (c 1615- c 1689) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.
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Willow warbler
The willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skokholm
