Wildlife and Birdlife of Gloucestershire
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Recent Gloucestershire news
- DNA tests confirm that a fox, not big cats, killed deer in Gloucestershire
- Badger kill zones revealed
- DNA tests could confirm big cat presence in Gloucestershire
- Good year for dragonflies and damselflies
- Critically endangered Spoon-billed sandpiper chicks arrive in the UK
- Transformed: Three years from gravel pit to thriving nature reserve
- First Bewick swans return to UK
- RSPB survey reveals South West's top five farm birds
- Glow worms triple numbers in Cotswold Water Park
- 'Extra' Peregrine appears at Symonds Yat
- Storms blow rarities to Slimbridge
- Wild boar not bad for biodiversity in Britain’s woods
- David Shepherd to talk at WildlifeXpo
- Badgers - Culling is not the cure
- Billy the bruiser rules Slimbridge cranes’ roost
More Gloucestershire news
- Egg collection last chance for Critically Endangered Spoon-billed sandpiper
- Are farming efforts helping barn owls thrive?
- Water vole’s big Gloucestershire comeback
- Large blue butterflies flying in Gloucestershire.
- Oystercatcher chicks at WWT Slimbridge - Video
- 23% of Bewick’s swans have been shot
- Black kite in Gloucestershire
- Crane eggs shipped from Germany to Slimbridge
- Gloucester Wildlife Trust to vaccinate badgers against TB
- National Trust rallies nation for joint action to save forests
- Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
- Spectacular starlings fill the winter skies
- Camera traps catch Cotswold Water Park nocturnal mammals
- Badger vaccine partial success – But culling still recommended
- Severn Barrage abandoned
Severn Barrage abandonedA barrage like the one proposed between Cardiff and Weston-super-Mare would not only destroy huge areas of estuary marsh and mudflats used by 69,000 birds each winter and block the migration routes of countless fish, but, as confirmed by this report, it would dramatically increase risk of flooding to residential properties.
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Mega rare white-tailed plover turns up at WWT Slimbridge
With only a handful of records in the UK ever - one of which at WWT Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire in 2007, WWT Slimbridge has just confirmed the sighting of a white-tailed plover on the reserve in Gloucestershire.
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Giant 'extinct' British Beetle found in GloucestershireAn amazing giant insect, thought to be extinct in the UK, has been discovered on a pavement in Gloucestershire.
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Glossy ibis flock arrives at Slimbridge.Usually only seen in the UK every 5 years, a flock of seventeen have recently settled at Slimbridge.
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Urban foxes in Bristol
I have been photographing urban foxes in Bristol for over 6 months now; what started off as a chance encounter has become an obsession for me and has changed my feelings and attitudes towards urban foxes forever.Click urban fox to read more