Amy King Wildlife

 I’m very much a generalist when it comes to natural history. Wildlife filmmaking often means that I know a little bit of everything, with a few specific subjects that I know more about. But I have massive blind spots. I can’t tell you much about anything plant related, and I have only been rock-pooling a couple of times. Beetles, I’m bad at, and moths are a mystery. And those are the popular groups of species. Molluscs, Lichens, mosses, flies and more; these are all areas of ecology that are mostly ignored by all but a few people with niche interests. This year, I am hoping to cover it all. My resolution for 2026 is to record 1,000 species in the UK. Like every new year’s resolution, 1,000 is a soft target. If I was smart, the phrasing would be “to get better at my ID skills” or “record species whenever reasonable”, but there is something satisfying about big round numbers. I can break it down to 2.74 new species a day. I can confidently say that I am 7.2% of the way through my ...