Wildife and Bird Watching in Cumbria
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.
- Campfield Marsh RSPB
- Finglandrigg Woods National Nature Reserve
- Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve
- Haweswater RSPB
- Hodbarrow RSPB
- Lake District Ospreys, Bassenthwaite.
- Moor House-Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve
- RSPB Geltsdale Nature Reserve
- Sizergh Castle, National Trust.
- South Walney Nature Reserve
- Whinlatter Forest Park
Recent Cumbria news
- Red kites spreading out from Cumbria
- Otter recovery has reached every UK county – Except Kent
- Over 1,000 different moth species in UK treetops
- Red squirrels surveyed in Cumbria’s Whinlatter Forest for the first time
- Birdcrime still on the rise in the UK – 384 reported incidents in 2009
- Why racecourses are good for the Lake District’s wildlife
- White-faced darter dragonfly reintroduced into Cumbria
- Red kites settling into life in the Lake District
- Osprey update 2010 - Remarkable Loch of Lowes bird lays 58th egg!
- Pine Marten rediscovered in England!
- Ninety red kites set to soar in the Lake District
- Cumbria is home to UK’s biggest cherry tree
- Osprey update 2010 - First ospreys arrive back in the UK
- Barn owls thriving in Grizedale
- Red squirrels given extra protection in Cumbria
More Cumbria news
- Grey squirrel control to be stepped up to boost red squirrels
- Osprey update - Final 2009.
- Pine marten survey launched in UK
- Peregrine persecution incidents increasing across the country
- Osprey at Leighton Moss – Born in Lake District
- Leucistic crow spotted in Kendall
- New grant to boost High Brown Fritillary butterfly numbers in Cumbria
- Rare moth reintroduction a success – with cows help
- Natterjack toads, one of Britain’s rarest amphibians, reintroduced into Cumbria
- Best year for bitterns for 130 years in Britain
- Bird crime stats jump 40%
- Lake District Ospreys - first photographs
- Whinlatter Forest Park Launched as a flagship Red Squirrel Reserve
- Lake District Ospreys, Bassenthwaite.
- New Maps Reveal Cumbria’s Wind Farm Sensitive Zones
Birdcrime still on the rise in the UK – 384 reported incidents in 20092009 was another shocking year for the persecution of birds of prey with incidents of shooting, trapping and poisoning, according to the RSPB's 20th annual Birdcrime report.
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Pine Marten rediscovered in England! Conservationists are ecstatic at the news that England's rarest mammal, the pine marten, has been found in the Cheviot Hills in Northumberland.
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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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Bird crime stats jump 40%July 2008. Reported crimes against birds of prey escalated to an unwelcome record in 2007, increasing by 40 per cent on 2006.
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