Mappp.co geology and wildlife sites

West Pennine Moors

…halus ridibundus, Mediterranean gulls Ichthyaetus melanocephalus and grey heron Ardea cinerea; and populations of starry lady’s mantle Alchemilla acutiloba, large toothed lady’s mantle A. subcrenata and floating water plantain Luronium natans. General description The West Penni…

Afon Llynfi

…breeding birds that are associated with riparian habitats, including grey heron Ardea cinerea, grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea, yellow wagtail Motacilla flava flavissima, dipper Cinclus cinclus, kingfisher Alcedo atthis and sand martin Riparia riparia. The river and bankside trees…

Owenkillew River

…etter slopes and waterlogged soils, alder Alnus glutinosa and grey willow Salix cinerea are the characteristic trees and shrubs, occasionally accompanied by the rare bird cherry Prunus padus. The woodland floor is covered by plants such as opposite-leaved golden-saxifrage Chrysos…

Afon Cleddau Dwyreiniol / Eastern Cleddau River

…supports a range of breeding birds including dipper Cinclus cinclus, grey heron Ardea cinerea, kingfisher Alcedo atthis, grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea, mallard Anas platyrhynchos, moorhen Gallinula chloropus, mute swan Cygnus olor, sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus and gr…

Afon Cleddau Gorllewinol / Western Cleddau River

…supports a range of breeding birds including dipper Cinclus cinclus, grey heron Ardea cinerea, kingfisher Alcedo atthis, grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea, mallard Anas platyrhynchos, moorhen Gallinula chloropus, mute swan Cygnus olor, sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus and gr…

Afon Irfon

…breeding birds that are associated with riparian habitats, including grey heron Ardea cinerea, common sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos, grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea, dipper Cinclus cinclus, kingfisher Alcedo atthis and sand martin Riparia riparia. The river and bankside trees suppo…

River Ithon

…breeding birds that are associated with riparian habitats, including grey heron Ardea cinerea, common sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos, grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea, dipper Cinclus cinclus, kingfisher Alcedo atthis and sand martin Riparia riparia. The river and bankside trees suppo…

Afon Wysg (Isafonydd) / River Usk (Tributaries)

…breeding birds that are associated with riparian habitats, including grey heron Ardea cinerea, common sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos, grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea, dipper Cinclus cinclus, kingfisher Alcedo atthis and goosander Mergus merganser. The river and bankside trees suppo…

River Dee (England)

…ide cover are favoured by the dipper Cinclus cinclus and grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea, whereas the yellow wagtail Motacilla flava and mute swan Cygnus olor are found along the slower flowing reaches. Populations of grey heron Ardea cinerea, common sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos …

Blithfield Reservoir

…eet grass Glyceria maxima, with scattered, developing carr of grey willow Salix cinerea. This represents one of the largest examples of this habitat type in the county. The wetland gives way to marshy, semi improved pasture with much soft rush Juncus effusus, a favoured area for …

Westhay Heath

…are small areas of open water, dense patches of scrub, mainly grey willow Salix cinerea and extensive stands of common reed Phragmites australis. Large areas are dominated by bulrush Typha latifolia. Many other tall fen species grow amongst the bulrush and on the edges of these a…

Malpas Estuary

… largest heronries (grey heron) in Cornwall, contains about 13 nests, and heron Ardea cinerea regularly feed along the estuary.

Sowley Pond

…tufted duck and great crested grebes Podiceps cristatus. The heronry grey heron Ardea cinerea, at present 1984 in mature Scot's pine, has increased steadily since the 1960s and in 1984 held 60 occupied nests. The woodland elements of the SSSI are mainly secondary plantations dati…

Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh

…ium ampeloprasum ssp. babingtonii. The site is visited regularly by grey heron Ardea cinerea, little egret Egretta garzetta and shelduck Tadorna tadorna. Small winter flocks of lapwing Vanellus vanellus, curlew Numenius arquata, teal Anas crecca and shelduck occur on the site as…

Barn Elms Wetland Centre

…rebe Tachybaptus ruficollis, great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus, grey heron Ardea cinerea, mute swan Cygnus olor, gadwall Mareca strepera, pochard Aythya ferina, tufted duck Aythya fuligula, little ringed plover Charadrius dubius, redshank Tringa totanus, common tern Sterna h…

Erme Estuary

…site as a whole supports a diverse breeding bird community which includes heron Ardea cinerea, kingfisher Alcedo atthis and cirl bunting Emberiza cirlus. It also provides feeding and roosting grounds for wildfowl and waders on passage and during winter. The estuary and the River …

Briddlesford Copses

…des many species commonly associated with heathlands such as bell heather Erica cinerea, heath grass Danthonia decumbens and green ribbed sedge Carex binervis. The woodland is further diversified by stands of hornbeam Carpinus betulus, beech Fagus sylvatica and along stream edges…

Bolshayne Fen

…oodcock Scolopax rusticola commonly feed within the fen, whilst both grey heron Ardea cinerea and barn owl Tyto alba are recorded throughout the year.

Hamilton Low Parks

… open water/grassland habitats and a section of the River Clyde. The grey heron Ardea cinerea nest within the mixed plantation woodland.

Brookend

… woodland in Tyrone. Brookend is a significant locality for breeding grey heron Ardea cinerea in a Northern Ireland context, with more than 50 pairs having been recorded. During the period 2003-2005 the woodland held an average of 39 pairs of heron, which represents 1.1% of the a…

Poole Harbour

… Sciurus vulgaris and also on Brownsea the largest colony of nesting grey heron Ardea cinerea in Dorset with about 100 pairs present. This range of habitats and their continuity with one another supports several scarce and restricted species. The nationally scarce hairy dragonfl…

Combe Pool

…is one of the most important ornithological sites in Warwickshire for its heron Ardea cinerea and other breeding birds and for its wintering wildfowl. Combe Pool holds the largest heronry (heron) in the county and about twenty pairs breed regularly on a small island. great creste…

Islington Heronry

…ture oaks surrounded by fenland which supports the largest colony of grey heron Ardea cinerea in Norfolk. There is an average of about 80 occupied nests each year and the adjacent dykes provide ideal feeding conditions for the birds. Several species of woodland birds, such as gre…

Upper Nene Valley Gravel Pits

…pen waters and their margins including the largest nesting colony of grey heron Ardea cinerea in Northamptonshire, wintering waterbird species, an assemblage of over 20,000 waterbirds in the non breeding season and a rare example of wet flood plain woodland. General description …

Crouch and Roach Estuaries

…a and ruff Calidris pugnax. Many other birds use the site, including grey heron Ardea cinerea probably from the nearby Heronries at North Fambridge and Foulness, green sandpiper Tringa ochropus, short eared owls Asio flammeus, hen harrier Circus cyaneus and merlin Falco columbari…

Upper Fal Estuary and Woods

…tta garzetta now occur within the complex. The site is important for grey heron Ardea cinerea and there is a major heronry (heron). Saltmarsh communities have developed in a number of localities within the complex, most notably near the limit of tidal influence at Ruan Lanihorne…

Dunsdon Farm

…eding bird community which includes a heronry with about 20 pairs of grey heron Ardea cinerea, and also sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus, buzzard Buteo buteo and lesser spotted woodpecker Dryobates minor. Grasshopper warbler Locustella naevia breed in the ranker grassland. The grassla…

Bovey Valley Woodlands

…potted woodpecker Dryobates minor, pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca and heron Ardea cinerea. Dormice Muscardinus avellanarius are common and the butterflies include scarce species like the purple emperor Apatura iris and brown hairstreak Thecla betulae.

River Test

…lnus glutinosa and willows usually crack willow Salix fragilis and sallow Salix cinerea bind the banks and provide refuges for river animals such as otter. The site includes former water meadows, fen pasture and rush pasture communities of botanical interest. Soils in the valley…

Owenreagh River

…ound along the whole length of the river, dipper Cinclus cinclus and grey heron Ardea cinerea. Although the fish community has not been extensively surveyed, both Atlantic salmon Salmo salar and Brown trout Salmo trutta are known to be present in the river and areas suitable for …

Attenborough Gravel Pits

…are extensive stands of willow scrub characterised largely by grey willow Salix cinerea, common osier Salix viminalis and sallow S. caprea. Older stands of wet, seasonally flooded woodland occur on the former silt beds, peninsulas and islands in the north of the complex, forming …

River Wye (Lower Wye) / Afon Gwy (Gwy Isaf)

…nd streams and rivers such as dipper Cinclus cinclus and grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea also breed along the faster flowing sections, especially where rapids occur. Sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus and reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus breed in riparian habitat along the …

Ipsley Alders Marsh

…ortant for birds and attract such species as kingfisher Alcedo atthis and heron Ardea cinerea. The Marsh itself provides a valuable breeding site for snipe Gallinago gallinago. The area also has a very large breeding population of reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus, whose nests ar…

Swanscombe Peninsula

…r anser. Shelduck Tadorna tadorna, little egret Egretta garzetta and grey heron Ardea cinerea utilise a number of wetland habitats and forage within the intertidal habitats of the adjacent River Thames. Little egret and grey heron nest in the heronry south of Black Duck Marsh. Th…

McKean's Moss

… woodland species, including long-tailed tit Aegitbalos caudatus and grey heron Ardea cinerea. https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/mckeans-moss-assi

Lynher Estuary

…ack-headed gulls Chroicocephalus ridibundus. Mute swan Cygnus olor, grey heron Ardea cinerea, shelduck and mallard all breed here.

River Itchen

…eristic riverine bird species. Kingfisher Alcedo atthis, grey wagtail Motacilla cinereand little grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis are frequent. In the dense vegetation along the river’s margins, coot Fulica atra and moorhen Gallinula chloropus are common and tufted duck and mute swa…

Hilgay Heronry

…of the Fens which supports a nationally important breeding colony of grey heron Ardea cinerea. There is an average of about 40occupied nests each year in the mature trees of European larch Larix decidua and ash Fraxinus excelsior. The nearby fenland with an extensive system of dr…

Jockey Fields

…rtant for a variety of birds species. Locally significant numbers of grey heron Ardea cinerea use the site as a feeding ground. Numbers of snipe Gallinago gallinago in excess of 80 have been recorded and jack snipe Lymnocryptes minimus, teal Anas crecca, water rail Rallus aquatic…

Eling and Bury Marshes

…ing areas for the autumn and winter populations of waders, ducks and grey heron Ardea cinerea. Status, Site of Special Scientific Interest SSSI notified under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as amended.

Goat Lodge

… county, supporting a nationally important concentration of breeding grey heron Ardea cinerea. The adjoining grassland is of some antiquity as evidenced by the vigorous population of wild daffodil. This locally rare plant has declined nationally through the cultivation of old gra…

Tweed Catchment Rivers - England: Lower Tweed and Whiteadder

… numbers in the estuary and lower river. Other species that occur include heron Ardea cinerea, goosander Mergus merganser and cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo. The estuary attracts a variety of waders and wildfowl including eider Somateria mollissima, mallard Anas platyrhynchos, dun…

Upper Lough Erne - Crom

… as this is generally a scarce species in Ireland. The colony of breeding heron Ardea cinerea on Inishfendra is one of the largest in Ireland. The area is also of considerable importance for its invertebrate fauna, which reflects the range of habitats present and the continuity o…

Fivehead Woods and Meadow

… Further interest is added to the site by a large breeding colony of grey heron Ardea cinerea in one of the woods and also by the presence of breeding pairs of nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos. Buzzards Buteo buteo and sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus also breed. The common dormous…

Aqualate Mere

…moths and sawflies. The site has nationally important numbers of breeding heron Ardea cinerea and passage shoveler Spatula clypeata and is regionally significant for breeding waders. Biology The mere occupies a shallow basin in glacial drift over lying Triassic sandstone. It is …

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