Wildife and Bird Watching in Lancashire & Merseyside
These maps are intended as a guideline only; you must check the exact location of the reserve yourself. Wildlife Extra assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or usefulness of the information on this website.
- Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve.
- Aughton Woods Nature Reserve
- Brockholes Nature Reserve
- Burton Mere Wetlands
- Freshfield Dune Heath Nature Reserve
- Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve
- Hesketh Out Marsh - RSPB
- Heysham Moss Nature Reserve
- Heysham Nature Reserve
- Leighton Moss RSPB
- Longworth Clough Nature Reserve
- Marshside RSPB
- Martin Mere Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
- Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve
- Mere Sands Wood Nature Reserve
- Morecambe Bay RSPB
- Myers Allotment Butterfly Reserve
- Silverdale wildlife walk
- Warton Crag nature reserve
Recent Lancashire and Mersey news
- Osprey chicks in UK
- Just 1 pair of Hen harriers nesting in England
- England’s hen harrier reaches new low - Just 4 pairs
- Water vole spotters asked to report sightings online
- Whooper swans’ record-breaking early arrival
- Rare sand lizards released back to the wild on Merseyside
- Tracking young Scottish osprey’s zigzag tour of Britain
- Heron eating a crab photo
- Kent sightings confirm otters recently found every county in England
- New outbreak of deadly squirrel pox hits Lancashire
- New haven for rare high brown butterfly
- Osprey update July 2011
- Delight as £3.5 billion Mersey barrage plans shelved
- Dormouse spotted in Lancashire – the first for 25 years
- Osprey update May 2011
More Lancashire and Mersey news
- Major new nature reserve opens in Lancashire
- Water voles making a comeback… in North West England at least
- Osprey update 2011
- £300,000 to help save England’s Hen Harriers
- Is it a bird? Is it a hedgehog…
- Hen harrier persecution leads to 20% decline
- Hen harrier report focuses on illegal persecution
- Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
- Mersey barrage plan barracked
- Record numbers of whooper swans at WWT Martin Mere
- Endangered butterfly does well on Warton Crag
- Eagle Owls – Invasive pests or welcome colonisers?
- Great time to see starling 'swarms'
- Killer disease decimating UK frog populations
- Enjoy a red squirrel walk
Osprey update 2010 - First ospreys arrive back in the UKThe bird thought to be oldest breeding female of its kind ever recorded in the UK returned for the 20th consecutive year to the Loch of the Lowes wildlife reserve, astonishing wildlife experts.
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Hen harrier. Persecution is prime cause of disappearance, says Natural England – Could be reintroduced to new areasDetailed monitoring work since 2002 has shown that the critically low breeding numbers and patchy distribution of the hen harrier in England is a result of persecution - both in the breeding season, and at communal roosts in the winter - especially on areas managed for red grouse or with game rearing interests.
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Corncrake found in Manchester car park. A corncrake found wandering around a restaurant car park in Manchester in September, has been given a safe haven at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve near Fakenham
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Bearded tits thriving in Lancashire.Bearded tits are thriving at RSPB Leighton Moss thanks to some innovative conservation work.
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