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Show off your love for wild animals with pin badges! From popular RSPB badges to badges created by independent designers around the world, there are many beautiful, quirky or cute designs to choose from, made of enamel or wood. We chose some of our favorites.

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Whether you are looking for enamel or wooden wild animal themed pins, there are many lovely options to choose from. These pins include realistic and cute designs, many of which come from wildlife organizations or independent designers.

How would you choose to wear your work-as a brooch on a shirt, to decorate your bag or hat, or as a shoulder strap lining for your camera bag or binoculars?

If you like these suggestions and are cunning, check out these beautiful needle pipers provided by our colleagues on Gathered.

These cute enamel pins are made of zinc alloy. There are four cartoon sharks on them. There is a small message written on them: I am tired and my head hurts. I need advice and help. Each pin weighs only three to four grams and is almost an inch along its longest dimension. They all have a metal hook backing to secure them to your clothes, bag or the shoulder strap of your camera or binoculars. Whether you want to buy them as cute little pins or as a way to convey your feelings to friends and colleagues, these four shark enamel pins are a great addition to any pin collection.

Use these pins created by Bristol illustrator Eleanor Longhurst (Eleanor Longhurst) to celebrate a series of British wildlife species, including a mute swan (pictured above), a fungus, a A garden tiger moth and a puffin. She also made many embroidered patches and temporary tattoos inspired by nature.

If you like the combination of handicrafts and wild animals, this cute snail is perfect with a ball of yarn! It was designed by Jeannie Voirin-Gerde in Washington, USA, and she also offers some other color combinations of this snail-the same design, and a cute yarn owl that can be used as a needlework manager.

As part of Mary Capaldi's Celestial Insects series, this little jumping spider (based on the peacock spider) attracted us with its dance moves and patterns. Mary is located in Ontario, Canada and offers a series of insect and invertebrate enamel pins. One of our favorites is the "Bee Yourself" enamel pin based on the blue carpenter bee.

The Falkland Islands Conservation Charity provides a series of enamel pins, which are produced in cooperation with its International Bird Protection Association partner RSPB. Choose from a variety of species such as penguins, black-browed albatross, orcas.

The Bush Bling Etsy store in Sydney, Australia has a wide range of enamel pins, from sugar gliders and Tasmanian tigers (also known as thylacines) to orchids, damselflies and green-leaf sea dragons. One of our favorites is the very aptly named Fairview Wren (pictured above).

These pins are produced by two marine biologists in the United States and are one of many ocean-inspired products offered in the Fin Pin store. Choose between various designs of wooden pins and enamel pins, including cuttlefish (pictured above), beluga whale, seahorse (glow in the dark!) and ray.

The Bumblebee Conservation Trust has produced ten different bumblebee enamel pin designs, each representing a different bumblebee species-some are common species, such as the early bumblebee in the picture above, while others celebrate Rare species, such as bumblebee and piercing wasp. The tree bumblebee even has a pin, the species first appeared in the UK in 2001.

The Wader Quest charity has produced many collectible wading bird pin badges, which can be found in the UK and around the world. Species include Northern Frog (pictured above), Eurasian Sandpiper, and Spoon-billed Sandpiper.

Adrian Ramos of California, USA, combined corvidae and tarot cards in this enamel pin. An impressive crow perched on a branch with four suits: sword, wand, five-pointed star, and a snail shell necklace as a cup.

Oh Jessica Jessica Etsy shop is located in Melbourne, Australia, with more than 100 kinds of pins to choose from. Wild animals are mainly birds, because two Australian birds have been produced through Kickstarter, but there are also stingrays and some newts to choose from.

Another pin series inspired by marine wildlife, this time was designed by Kir, who runs the Ummvelt online store. There is a range of products to choose from, including enamel pins and clothing. This sunfish pin (pictured above) caught our eye with its London skyline design.

The British Hedgehog Conservation Society sells this cute cartoon hedgehog enamel pin in its online store.

This pin badge is handmade in the UK, made of reliable sourced European birch, and is about 30 mm wide. 10% of the profit of this Etsy store by Katie Waddington was donated to the Buglife charity. All the pins are insects taken by Katie, including a green tiger beetle (pictured above), A marble white butterfly, a cinnabar moth and a rhino beetle. Each pushpin is attached to a yellow background card with information about the species.

As part of the CrowArtist collective noun enamel pin badge series, this bohemian wax winged pin celebrates the wax wing outbreak in 2019. Other birds in the collective noun pin series include bee-eaters (bee colonies), starlings (murmurs), and magpies (pranks). There are many other enamel pins outside this series.

Bristol-based Claire Spiller has made four enamel pins for her urban wildlife collection: red fox, herring gull, rock pigeon/pigeon and this brown long-eared bat pin. Each has a cute species cartoon illustration, and the bat and fox brooch comes with a free QR code that can be used for free fact sheets.

RPSB is probably the most famous manufacturer of wild animal enamel badges. It is very popular among badge collectors. There are many types, some of which can be purchased annually, while others are only sold for a small amount of time, such as special editions for specific events or stockpiles. These pins raise more than £1 million for the RSPB each year and have more than 350 different designs, including British and international species such as puffins (pictured above), hyacinths, leatherback turtles and seahorses.

This pin from Bongles is made of metal alloy and coated with enamel. Three sleepy animals huddled in the dozing hug puddle. Its characteristics are: an orange sloth, a blue-green koala and a yellow cat on top. The description says that this is a gift for children, but we think any adult wildlife lover can also wear it! The pin has a metal buckle backing to prevent it from being lost from your clothes, bag or the shoulder strap of your camera or binoculars. There is also a design that allows three sleepy animals to hang on the branches happily.

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