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Farmland within the AONB is less rich in wildlife than other habitats, but nevertheless provides a home for plant species such as poppy, common mallow and alexanders, as well as bird species including skylark, corn bunting and yellow hammer, and mammals such as brown hare.

The Royal Hospital School, with its impressively tall clock tower (S&O, Stage 5)

The heathland habitat of the Sandlings is home to many birds, as well as interesting butterflies such as grayling and silver-studded blue, reptiles including the common lizard and adder, and plants such as bell heather, ling (common heather), heath bed-straw, heath speedwell and harebell. One species, the antlion, a scarce and rather strange insect, is found in the UK only in the Sandlings region – most known colonies lie within a restricted area of the Minsmere RSPB reserve. The European antlion (Euroleon nostras) is actually the larval stage of a species of lacewing. It earns its name by digging pit traps in sandy soil and lying in wait at the bottom for other insects, ants or spiders to fall in. It then grabs its prey and sucks the fluid from it through its hollow jaw projections.