The White Cliffs: Two Miles, Two Thousand Years - White Cliffs Visitor Centre, Dover, Kent, UK - Flora and Fauna Information Signs on Waymarking.com

The board describes how iconic the White Cliffs are to Britain. Formed between 65-80 million years ago the chalk cliffs were once the bottom of a tropical ocean. It is the compressed sea creatures which make up the chalk, condensed into rock with rainwater-created pockets of black flint.

Exmoor ponies are allowed to graze the grassland keeping the area ideal for its diverse variety of insects. Many of the plants are native species which date back to the last Ice Age and include Yellow Rattle, Horseshoe Vetch, Cocks-Foot Grass, the Early Spider Orchid and the Pyramidal Orchid.

Butterflies such as the Marbled White, Chalkhill and Actonia Blue find their food here and the Bloody Nosed Beetle survives in this habitat.

Reptiles feed on the insects and the Adder, Slow Worm and Common Lizard can be seen basking in the warm sunshine.

The White Cliffs provide nesting sites for birds such as the Fulmar, Kittiwakes, Black-backed Gulls and the Peregrine Falcon. Skylarks nest in the longer grass and many other species are abundant in this preserved, native land.

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