Plants
Angular Solomon's seal
Drooping flowers on the rocks
Bird's-foot trefoil
Brilliant golden yellow flowers
Greater celandine
Sign of early human settlement
Least gagea
Yellow flower patches in the spring grass
Lesser celandine
Only found in the spring
Solid-tubered corydalis
An impressive spring bloomer
Wild pansy
Violet rugs on the rocksBlue-violet flower carpets on the rocks
Birds
Arctic tern
Red-beaked tern
Blackbird
Eye-catching and loud urban bird
Caspian tern
The largest tern
Common tern
Black-tipped beak
Eider
The most common waterfowl in the Baltic Sea
Eurasian hobby
Fast as an arrow
Goosander
Deep diver on Helsinki’s shores
Great cormorant
Needless fish envy
Great crested grebe
Builder of floating nests
Lesser whitethroat and whitethroat
Peas in a jar or cheerful clattering
Northern wheatear
Common shore bird
Oystercatcher
The only genuinely urban wader
Red-breasted merganser
Islet nester
Starling
Cultural bird
Swallow
Known for its tail
White-tailed eagle
Conservation success story