Wildife and Bird Watching in London
Upcoming Events at WWT London Wetland CentreThese 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.
Recent Greater London news
- Bittern and Willow warbler singing early at WWT London
- Bittern boom in London
- Eels are vanishing from the Thames
- Largest new species of 2009 – 42 metre high tree – amongst 290 new plants by Kew
- Bitterns and large flocks arriving at WWT London
- Bats moving into new home just weeks after opening
- Ring-necked parakeets, Canada and Egyptian geese now officially pests
- London wildlife survey results
- First ever recorded Humpback in Thames found dead
- £1,000 prize for the best UK ponds and backyard wetlands
- New wildlife habitat created in the heart of London
- Port of London to work with RSPB on the Thames
- Water voles to return to inner London river?
- Peregrines at the Tate Modern
- Mute swans nest at bottom of Sir Peter Scott’s statue at Barnes WWT
More Greater London news
- New partnership to work against the bear bile trade
- New butterfly species found – In London’s Natural History Museum
- London Zoo animals in the snow - photos.
- Leucistic robin on London’s Hampstead Heath
- GrantScape Launches £1.6 million Biodiversity Fund
- Mockingbirds, not finches, set Darwin on the road to evolution. - New exhibition at the Natural History museum
- Natural History Museum acquires huge Hawkmoth collection – potential new species
- World’s longest insect discovered in Borneo
- New legislation to halt the spread of concrete across front gardens.
- Aquatic warbler visits east London
- Grey seal takes up residence in London
- Essex man pleads guilty to selling CITES listed Arowana fish
- Damselfly attacking or mating with dragonfly? Photos.
- Unknown insect found in Natural History Museum garden
- Kent man caught with 24 elephant tusks
First ever recorded Humpback in Thames found dead. A 28ft (9.5m) Humpback whale has been found dead in the River Thames near the Dartford Bridge.
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'Extinct' dove breeds at London Zoo.A Socorro dove, extinct in the wild for 30 years, has bred for the first time at London Zoo.
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Little egrets breed in London for the first time.A pair of little egrets has successfully raised 4 chicks on Thames Water's Walthamstow Reservoirs.
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Rare Waders Successfully Breed in LondonFour rare Avocet chicks hatched on Saturday 17 June 2006 at the WWT London Wetland Centre .in Barnes, South West London – the closest breeding location to central London since records began.
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Squacco heron in LondonA Squacco heron, a very unusual sight in the UK, has taken up residence in London.
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