Wildife and bird watching in Wiltshire & Avon
Wiltshire is the home of the Great Bustard reintroduction project. The Great Bustard is the county bird of Wiltshire, and has been reintroduced, with 22 birds released in 2004 and annual releases since then. See below for details.
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.
- Bath Peregrine falcons
- Biss Meadows Country Park
- Blakehill Farm Nature Reserve
- Browns Folly Nature Reserve
- Caen Hill locks
- Chew Valley Lake
- Clapton Moor Nature Reserve
- Coombe Bissett Down Nature Reserve
- Dolebury Warren Nature Reserve
- Folly Farm nature reserve
- Goblin Combe Nature Reserve
- Great Bustard Project, Salisbury Plain
- Green Lane Wood Nature Reserve.
- Langford Lakes Nature Reserve.
- Lower Moor Farm Nature Reserve
- Lower Woods Nature Reserve
- North Meadow, Cricklade National Nature Reserve.
- Priors Wood Nature Reserve
- Swillbrook Lakes Nature Reserve
- Walborough & Purn Hill Nature Reserves
- Weston Big Wood Nature Reserve
Recent Wiltshire & Avon news
- New wetland being created near Salisbury
- Good year for dragonflies and damselflies
- Great bustard sightings – Have you seen one?
- Wiltshire reserve digs deep for wildlife
- Transformed: Three years from gravel pit to thriving nature reserve
- RSPB survey reveals South West's top five farm birds
- Caterpillars released in their thousands to save rare UK moth
- Glow worms triple numbers in Cotswold Water Park
- Wildlife flocks to dairy farm habitats
- 47 baby bats removed from their roost and dumped
- Conservationists keep hare loss at bay
- £1.8million boost for UK’s great bustard project
- Barn owl population devastated by icy weather
- Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
- Spectacular starlings fill the winter skies
More Wiltshire & Avon news
- Camera traps catch Cotswold Water Park nocturnal mammals
- Budget-tightening threat to stone curlew’s resurgence
- Stone curlews finally spread their wings… and head for Wiltshire
- UK’s rarest bats found in Wiltshire woodland
- Over 1,000 different moth species in UK treetops
- Decade of garden surveys in the West reveals relationship between man and bird
- Albino jackdaw seen at Avebury
- Wildlife watching from a number 40 bus – With Podcast
- Four Great bustard chicks hatch in the wild in the UK
- 120 slow worms moved to make way for houses
- Loch of the Lowes most visited nature reserve – On Wildlife Extra
- 19 more Russian Great Bustards now in the UK
- Great crested newt survey in Wiltshire
- The First Great Bustard chicks hatch in the UK for 177 years
- Mad March hares boxing early
Four Great bustard chicks hatch in the wild in the UKOne of the most spectacular birds on the planet, the Great Bustard looks set to consolidate its return to the UK with the news that four chicks hatched so far this year and that there are 4 confirmed nests.
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The First Great Bustard chicks hatch in the UK for 177 yearsFor the first time since 1832, the Great Bustard - one of Europe's most threatened birds - has nested in the UK with two separate females successfully hatching chicks.
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Great bustards released on Salisbury PlainThe Great Bustard Group released 19 birds on Salisbury Plain at the end of September, the fifth annual release that is part of the UK reintroduction project scheduled to continue until 2013.
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Great Bustards nest again in UK after 175 years waitEarlier this spring a female Great Bustard from the Great Bustard Group (GBG) reintroduction trial in Wiltshire nested and laid two eggs. Due to fears of egg thieves and disturbance from bird watchers, the announcement was delayed and the location of the nest is being kept secret.
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