Sandra Bartocha / Pines, birches and beech trees in a bog near Schweingartensee, Serrahn, Muritz-National Park, World Natural Heritage site, Germany, Europe. November 2015.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Wetland area in winter Silver birch forest, Cairngorms NP, Highlands, Scotland, UK, March 2011

Grzegorz Lesniewski / Peat bog with Downy Birch (Betula pubescens). Bieszczady National Park, the Carpathians, Poland, September 2009.

Robert Thompson / Early tooth-striped moth (Trichopteryx carpinata) adult on birch trunk, Lackan Bog, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK, April

Wild Wonders of Europe / Cairns / Bog woodland with mixed boreal species, Sarek National Park, Laponia World Heritage Site, Lapland, Sweden, September 2008

Jason Smalley / Woodland growing on damp ground alongside a raised bog, with moss and birch, UK.

Jason Smalley / woodland growing on damp ground alongside a raised bog, with moss and birch, UK

Tony Evans / Bog myrtle {Myrica gale} growing on and around boulder in Birch grove, Scotland, UK

Robert Thompson / Phoenix moth (Eulithis prunata) camouflaged on Birch tree bark, Lackan Bog, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK, August

Roger Powell / Wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) perched in Dwarf birch (Betula nana) scrub at marsh edge, Pokka, Finnish Lapland. June.

Roger Powell / Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) female, sitting on nest incubating eggs amongst Dwarf birch (Betula nana) beside a raised beach on the tundra, Varanger, Finnmark, Norway. June.

Orsolya Haarberg / Aerial photograph of string bogs consisting of water-filled hollows separated by narrow ridges with areas of small elevation covered in mixed forests of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), Siberian spruce...