Love Dumfries
Nature on your doorstep
We're fortunate in Dumfries to live side by side with hundreds of species of birds, wild flowers and trees, fish, mammals and insects. Stop for a moment and look around, and you'll see that we're part of an abundance of nature; sometimes in the most unexpected places.
This guide offers an insight into some of the wildlife we live among. We hope you enjoy it, discover something new, and find something worth sharing.
Look for these now
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Fish
Rainbow Trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss
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Bird
Swallow
Hirundo rustica
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Bird
Sand Martin
Riparia riparia
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Plants
Ox-eye Daisy
Leucanthemum vulgare
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Bird
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
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Bird
Herring Gull
Larus argentatus
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Mammal
Noctule bat
Nyctalus noctula
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Mammal
Daubenton's bat
Myotis daubentonii
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Mammal
Pipistrelle bat
Pipistrellus pipistrellus
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Insects
Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar
Tyria jacobaeae caterpillar
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Insects
Painted Lady Butterfly
Vanessa cardui
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Insects
Wall Brown Butterfly
Lasiommata megera
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Plants
Ivy-leaved Toadflax
Cymbalaria muralis
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Bird
Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelis
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Bird
Yellowhammer
Emberiza citrinella
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