Wildife and Bird Watching in Devon
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- Avocet cruises in Devon
- Aylesbeare Common RSPB
- Bystock nature reserve
- Chapel Wood RSPB
- Coleton Fishacre National Trust Garden
- Dunsdon National Nature Reserve
- Dunsford Woods Nature Reserve
- East Dartmoor Woods and Heaths National Nature Reserve
- Escot Park beavers
- Exe Estuary RSPB
- Exe Reed Beds Nature Reserve
- Halsdon Nature Reserve
- Little Breach Butterfly Reserve
- Lower Bruckland Farm
- Lundy Island
- Marsland Nature Reserve - Butterflies
- Plym Bridge peregrine watch
- Slapton Ley National Nature Reserve
- Stowford Moor Nature Reserve.
- The Old Sludge Beds
- Venn Ottery Nature Reserve
- Volehouse Moor
Recent Devon news
- Birdwatching for Beginners
- Great bustard sightings – Have you seen one?
- RSPB survey reveals South West's top five farm birds
- Another Peregrine poisoned in the West Country
- UK river wildlife survey results
- Bumper breeding season for butcher bird
- Shock at second bird of prey poisoning in West Country
- 4 Goshawks poisoned in Devon
- Exmoor ponies – The true descendant of Europe’s wild horses?
- Cat brings entire goldcrest nest, with chicks, into house
- Dartford warbler disappearing from Devon
- £30,000 grant to help save Dartmoor's Ring ouzels
- Sperm whale off Devon
- Efforts to save Devon damselfly pay off
- Record numbers of rare fritillaries in Devon
More Devon news
- Badger vaccination to tackle TB problem
- Help find Britain's disappearing oil beetles
- Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
- Swallow now a regular at nearly all West Country farms
- Leucistic Dunnock
- Record year for Devon’s threatened fritillaries
- Endangered Bank cormorant dies in Torquay Zoo
- 'Butcher bird' breeds in England for the first time since 1992
- Devon's damselflies in distress given £5,000 boost
- Southern Damselfly boost in Devon
- Harbour porpoise and Bottlenose dolphin most common sightings in UK Whale and Dolphin Watch
- Devon Sperm whale seen again, possibly with a calf
- Fritillary butterflies boost in Devon
- Sperm whale sighting off Torbay, South Devon
- Good year for rare Marsh fritillary butterfly in Devon
4 Goshawks poisoned in DevonDevon and Cornwall Police and the RSPB are appealing for information after four goshawks and one buzzard were found dead in woodland to the west of Exeter.
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Sperm whale sighting off Torbay, South DevonObservers were surprised to see a large whale very close to the shore off Torbay in South Devon. It was identified as a Sperm whale, the largest of all the toothed whales.
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Lyme Bay Reefs devastated.
Devon Wildlife Trust has collected evidence that the Reefs in Lyme Bay have been trashed by some fishing techniques.
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DEFRA announces protection for Lyme Bay Reefs - one of the UK’s top marine wildlife sitesOne of the finest marine wildlife sites in the UK's is to be protected from damaging scallop-dredging, thanks to the introduction of a new 60sq mile exclusion zone in Lyme Bay.
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Seashore safaris
Best activity book of the year
Summer is here, we have warm weather, and the beach is beckoning. A swim, build a couple of sandcastles, a bit of beach cricket, but what to do next?
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The Book of Shells
We've all picked up a shell or two on the beach, but outside the very most common ones, we have no idea what we are handling. The glorious 652 page book will be able to answer that question for you, no matter where in the world you are.Read full review »
Great British Marine Animals - 3rd Edition
Many people think of the waters around Great Britain as cold, grey and fairly lifeless. This book will put you right (though noone can argue about the water temperature).Read full review »
