Welcome to The Nature Collection!

The Nature Collection is an extraordinary 'hands on' collection of feathers, animal bones and wildlife photographs, showing Nature as you have never seen it before! It gives you the opportunity to appreciate the beauty, colours and intricate detail of a huge variety of British mammals, birds and insects. Normally wildlife is elusive and hard to spot. This collection allows you to study animals from all kinds of angles, inside as well as out!

This extensive collection can be brought into local schools or clubs, or be set up as a display stand at fairs or exhibitions. The colourful display fills a classroom or small hall, spreading over twelve large tables. Everything has been thoroughly cleaned and labelled.
 

	Try on antlers and handle enormous deer bones.
	See tiny vole skeletons, reassembled from inside owl pellets. Compare their bones with your own.
	Feel the softness of feathers from tawny and little owls. See how feathers grow in different shapes and sizes.
	Compare a tawny owl wing with the wing from a robin.
	See the patterns on sparrowhawk and woodpecker tails. Notice how their feet differ!
	Compare feathers from green and great spotted woodpeckers. Find their photos.
	Look at Stag, Longhorn and Rhinoceros Beetles under a magnifying glass.
	Study the backbones of a grass snake and a rabbit.
	Compare teeth from a deer, a fox, a grass snake and a shrew.
	Discover from the jackdaw skeleton, how birds are adapted for flight.
	Find bat wing bones which have been inside an owl's stomach!
	Admire Swallowtail, Monarch, Orange Tip and Camberwell Beauty butterflies.
	See how different moths can be - Peach Blossom, Mother Shipton and Copper Underwing.
	Spot the crow's tongue, caterpillar skin, sparrowhawk talons.

 
The incredible range and beauty of the collection has amazed thousands of children in local schools, and many more at local fairs and events. Teachers enjoy the collection as much as the children. Everyone is guaranteed to see something they have never seen before! No one can believe all this wildlife is on our doorstep.

Almost everything in the display has been picked up from the ground, in Richmond Park in Surrey. The Royal Parks have given special permission to create this collection, for educational purposes. Richmond Park's status as a National Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest means that visitors must not remove anything from the Park. The butterflies, moths and beetles were bought as specimens.

The collection is illustrated with more than 200 colourful photographs, celebrating the diversity of wildlife in the Park; deer, owls, dragonflies, sunsets, kestrels, fungi, flowers and trees.