Heath

Consequently, most heathlands are protected.

Found amongst sand dunes and heathlands, it is a polymorphic species, with a wide range of variants.

It is the dominant plant in most heathland and moorland in Europe, and in some bog vegetation and acidic pine and oak woodland.

It is a bird of open farmland and heath, known for the song of the male, which is delivered in hovering flight from heights of 50 to 100 metres (160 to 330 ft).

The preferred habitat in Great Britain was found to consist most regularly (amongst 200 nests) of small tree plantations, copses or scattered trees on moorlands, heath or mosses (33%), followed by blocks of forest (24.5%), smaller plantations, shelterbelts or hedgerows in various agricultural areas (24%) and scrub or wooded clumps near the coast and in wetlands (15%).

It tended to retreat to the hills and forest for shelter during the day and hunted in the open heath at night.

It is most common in mountainous regions, including Kosciuszko National Park and the Brindabella Ranges, where they are found in alpine heath or tall open forest with a dense understorey.

In unforested northern communities, ribbed bog moss is found in sedge (Carex spp.) meadows, sphagnum (Sphagnum spp.) peatlands, heath-sedge fens, and willow (Salix spp.)-dominated fens.

The western barn owl inhabits open wetlands and grasslands, savannas, heathlands and deciduous shrublands up to an elevation of 4,000 m (13,000 ft), but also agricultural landscapes and peri-urban areas.

In Tasmania, their preference is heathland, coastal scrub, and open forest.

Truly wild populations increased slowly, primarily in the coastal areas and lowland heaths of Breckland and Norfolk.

Although they are not found at the highest altitudes of Tasmania, and their population density is low in the button grass plains in the south-west of the state, their population is high in dry or mixed sclerophyll forests and coastal heaths.

Their breeding areas include boreal forests, wet heathlands, grassy marshes and scrublands.

Adders can live in woodlands, moorlands, heathlands, and wetlands.

heaths, moors, pine and birch woods in the north of Scotland on acid peat

Heaths and acid grasslands

Dry sandy places, heaths, dunes, pine forests etc

Woods, hedgebanks, wet heaths, shady rock ledges and crevices

Damp and wet woods, marshes and wet heaths

Habitats include open woodland, grassland, and heath.

The habitat in which it optimally grows in open heath or shrublands with moist soil.