Wildife and Bird Watching in Dorset
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- Alners Gorse Butterfly Reserve
- Arne RSPB
- Broadcroft Quarry Butterfly Reserve
- Brownsea Island.
- Durlston Country Park
- Garston Wood RSPB
- Lankham Bottom Butterfly Reserve
- Lodmoor RSPB
- Perryfields Quarry Butterfly Reserve
- Portland Bird Observatory
- Radipole Lake RSPB
- Stanpit Marsh
- Studland and Godlingston Heath NNR
Recent Dorset news
- Great bustard sightings – Have you seen one?
- RSPB survey reveals South West's top five farm birds
- Monarch butterfly lands in Dorset
- Britain’s rarest spider moves house in a plastic bottle
- Fierce fire destroys Upton Heath wildlife
- Stalked jellyfish survey launched in Dorset
- Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
- Unearthing wildlife facts in the New Forest
- White stork in Dorset
- The snail that’s remained hidden for 100 years
- Harbour porpoise and Bottlenose dolphin most common sightings in UK Whale and Dolphin Watch
- Unusual whale species recorded off the UK
- Baby Risso's dolphin washed up on Chesil Beach
- Boats ignoring Studland Bay Voluntary No Anchor Zone
- RSPB trying to attract ospreys to Poole Harbour
More Dorset news
- Dorset dairy farmer spots endangered butterflies on his farm
- £700,000 cash boost for urban wildlife oasis
- 400 rare lizards released into wild as part of ‘rescue operation’ for UK’s reptiles and amphibians
- Sand lizards thriving in Dorset
- Smooth snakes to be reintroduced to Devon
- Mating seahorses in Studland Bay - First UK photo?
- National Trust warns it will take decades for Studland Heath to return to former glory after fire
- UK Seahorse tagging project at Studland Bay in Dorset
- Lady bird spider back from the brink of extinction
- Britain’s rarest spider makes comeback, and eats mother.
- Rare wildlife destroyed by heathland blaze in Dorset
- Rare Exmoor ponies to have new heathland home in Suffolk
- Heath Fritillary conservation on Exmoor
- Dorset marine wildlife threatened by millions of plastic pellets
- Divers wanted for Dorset fish survey.
Fierce fire destroys Upton Heath wildlifeOn what will be remembered as a black day for wildlife, an estimated one third of one of the most important wildlife sites in England was devastated by fire. Dorset Wildlife Trust's Upton Heath nature reserve, recognised internationally for the extreme rarity of habitat and wildlife, was engulfed by the biggest heath fire in decades just at the peak of the bird and reptile breeding season.
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UK Seahorse tagging project at Studland Bay in DorsetSince the discovery of Seahorses at Studland Bay, the site has proven to be internationally important and has thrown up some amazing surprises. The bay has a surprising concentration of Seahorses; with more than 40 in recorded in 2008. This density has made it a site of international importance as nowhere else in the British Isles, or indeed for that matter in the world; except the Rio Formosa in Portugal is there this concentration of Seahorses.
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