December’s wildlife reports highlight fern specialities of the Channel Islands such as Guernsey Spleenwort, the finding of the ant-mimic jumping spider Leptorchestes berolinensis, a sighting of a Blackburnian Warbler on the Isles of Scilly, updates on bats, freshwater fish, bryophytes, and much more.

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