Food for common brimstone and holly blue larvae

Downy birch and silver birch, the most common deciduous trees in Finland

Truncheon plant

The characteristic tree of wet coastal forests

Covering the water surface in green

Extensive reed beds

Eye-catching, but only for a moment

Free-floater

Absent from the coast

Not poisonous

A visitor that’s integrated a bit too well

Glowing stands on shores

Impressive shoreside beauty

‘Water pig’

Favourite of flies

The more polypores, the more valuable the forest

Long-tailed reed bed-dweller

The largest tern

Yellow and yellower

Flies with its neck straight

The common wood pigeon has a white spot on its neck

Heard, but not seen

Builder of floating nests

Flies with neck retracted

Large, brown goose

Treetop singer

Finland’s smallest woodpecker

Hovering over the reeds

Nests in the middle of open terrain

Bandit-masked male

Cultural bird

Loud singer

Sedge warbler, Eurasian reed warbler and great reed warbler

Strange sounds in the reeds

The national bird of Finland

Helsinki offers ideal habitats for bats

Tracks by the ice

An invasive alien species

City-dwellers

The stoat has a black-tipped tail

The northernmost lizard in the world

Easiest to distinguish by its spawning calls

Skilled fliers