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
- 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
- Warton Crag nature reserve
Recent Lancashire and Mersey news
- 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
- RSPB thinking big and going wild at Morecambe Bay
- Humpback whale off the Isle of Man
- Very rare Marsh Dowd moth found at WWT Martin Mere
- Osprey update 2010 - Remarkable Loch of Lowes bird lays 58th egg!
- Grand owl age: 20-year-old tawny at Mere Sands
- Eagle owls threatening Hen harrier survival in England’s only stronghold
- Peat extraction threatens Salford’s ‘rainforests’
- Endangered moth spotted in Lancashire
More Lancashire and Mersey news
- Bittern booming at RSPB Leighton Moss
- Osprey update 2010 - First ospreys arrive back in the UK
- Loch of the Lowes most visited nature reserve – On Wildlife Extra
- Bitterns being fed at Leighton Moss
- Day time otter thrilling visitors to RSPB Leighton Moss
- Leucistic moorhen on the Wirral - 3rd or 4th generation
- Sefton Red squirrels bounce back after huge decline
- Reedbeds in the UK – Scarce and endangered
- Water voles thriving on Leeds & Liverpool Canal
- Squirrel pox outbreak in Lancashire’s Red squirrels
- Research project to examine 90% drop in Lancashire red squirrels
- Lancashire police step up hunt for deer poachers
- Osprey update - Final 2009.
- Two found guilty of badger digging
- Osprey at Leighton Moss – Born in Lake District
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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