Warley Woods provides valuable habitat for a wide range of wildlife and plants and is an important green space in a heavily built up urban area. There is a rich diversity of species in Warley Woods from invertebrates to birds to mammals.
Species List
This is not an exhaustive list but it will give you an idea of the variety of life that exists in Warley Woods. If you have species reports, please contact the Trust Office so that we can include them here!
Mammals
- Grey Squirrel
- Common pipistrelle
- Whiskered/Brandt’s bat
- Noctule bat
- Red fox
- Hedgehog
- Brown rat
- Voles
- Mice
Birds
- Green woodpecker
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Chaffinch
- Longtailed tit
- Blue tit
- Great tit
- Coal Tit
- Goldcrest
- Tree-creeper
- Nuthatch
- Robin
- Carrion Crow
- Magpie
- Feral pigeon
- Wood pigeon
- Wren
- Blackbird
- Greenfinch
- Song thrush
- Jay
Fungi
- Oyster mushroom
- Razor strop (birch polypore)
- Jews ear
- Fly agaric
- Sulphur tuft
- Velvet shank
- Dead man’s fingers
- Candle snuff fungus
- Coral spot fungus
- King Alfred’s cakes
- Many zoned polypore
- Artist’s fungus
- Chicken of the woods
- Giant polypore
- Shaggy Pholiota
- Creolophus cirrhatus
- Pseudotrametes gibbosa
- Ustulina deusta (Kretzschmaria deusta)
- Bjerkandera adusta
- Peniophora quercina
- Daedaleopsis confragosa
- Grifola frondosa
Please remember that fungi should not be removed from the park. Whilst some fungi is edible some can be deadly if consumed.
Wildflowers
Trees
- Red oak
- American oak
- English oak
- Sessile oak
- Horse chestnut
- Sweet chestnut
- Sycamore
- Silver birch
- Larch
- Scot’s pine
- Beech
Invertebrates
- Butterflies
- Large Skipper
- Large White
- Small Copper
- Small White
- Holly Blue
- Red Admiral
- Painted Lady
- Small Tortoiseshell
- Peacock
- Comma
- Speckled Wood
- Meadow Brown
- Gate Keeper
- Ringlet
- Woodlouse
- Crane fly
- Beech gall-nat
- Garden spider
- Common harvester (harvestman)
- Centipede
- Millipede
- Knopper gall wasp
- Mining bee
- Zeller’s midget moth
- Holly leaf miner
- Horse chestnut scaleno
Reptiles and Amphibians
There have been no recent records of reptiles or amphibians in Warley Woods, however, populations of Common Frog and Newt have been noted in back gardens surrounding the Woods.
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