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Burton Mere Wetlands lies on the Dee Estuary straddling the border between Cheshire, England and Flintshire, Wales. It is run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).....
Dee Estuary - Parkgate
An excellent area to view waders at high tide. Parking at the Old Baths car park near the Boathouse public house at Parkgate. Good at all times of the year.
Gowy Meadows
Gowy Meadows Nature Reserve is a 165.8-hectare (410-acre) nature reserve near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. It consists of low-lying meadows immediately to the east of the River Gowy near its confluence with the River Mersey....
Moore Nature Reserve is managed by wardens employed by FCC Environment, operators of nearby Arpley Landfill site. Arpley Landfill began operating in 1988 and covers more than 500 acres..
Red Rocks Marsh
28 acre site situated at the mouth of the Dee Estuary opposite Hilbre Island. Red Rocks Marsh is managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.A SSSI with sand dunes and reedbeds....
Sandbach Flashes
Sandbach Flashes are a group of 14 wetlands west of Sandbach in Cheshire, England. The flashes were designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1963, with a total area of 1.53 km2. There are a number of individual flashes...
CHESHIRE
Browse a range of New and used Avifauna for the English county of Cheshire.
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Rare and Scarce Birds of Cheshire & Wirral
The bulk of the book consists of individual accounts reporting the status of 150 species and two elected subspecies (Kumlien's Gull and Siberian Chiffchaff). The introductory chapters consist of a preface is followed by chapters celebrating seawatching from the north Wirral shore, site profiles for seven latter-day rarity hotspots (North Wirral Shore, Dee Marshes, Hale Head, Frodsham Marsh, Woolston Eyes, Marbury and Sandbach Flashes), including a catalogue of notable birds for each and illustrations of site photographs, followed by further pages detailing the recent dramatic increase in the county of Common, Velvet and Surf Scoters, Little, Great White and Cattle Egrets and Yellow-browed Warbler.
Birds in Cheshire and Wirral
Cheshire and Wirral provides a wide range of habitats for birds, from the internationally important estuaries of the Dee and Mersey in the west to the high moors of the Peak District National Park in the east. During 2004 to 2007 more than 350 volunteers spent over 50,000 hours surveying each 2×2 km tetrad in Cheshire and Wirral, recording every bird species in the breeding season and in winter. This Atlas reveals dramatic changes since the county’s first breeding bird Atlas of 1978-84, and also for the first time shows the detailed distribution of the wintering species. Lavishly illustrated with 300 pictures by local photographers and artists, this colour Atlas provides full accounts of 186 species, with briefer treatments for a further 31.
The Breeding Bird Atlas of Cheshire and the Wirral is the most thorough analysis of the area's breeding birds ever to be published and one of the most comprehensive of any similar atlas to date. It covers the seven year period 1978-84 and includes over 120 maps and over 160 species accounts.This book is much more than an atlas.Up to two pages of informative text for most of the area's regular breeding birds describe their changes in status within cheshire and Wirral since records were first kept, and offer explanations for the distributions found during periods of mapping.
Hardback 310 pages.Line drawings , maps etc.B/w photographs.
The birds of Cheshire
ASIN : B0000CLM6Q
New Paragraph
Rostherne Mere: Birds of mere and margin
Written by birders who have watched Rostherne since the 1970s, the book updates accounts published in 1914 and 1955 by two greats of Cheshire natural history, Thomas Coward and Arnold Boyd, and that of 1977 by Ron Harrison of Altrincham and warden David Rogers. Paintings, photos and charts make this thorough account of the birdlife of Cheshire's most celebrated mere a highly attractive one too.
REED WARBLERS at Rostherne Mere
ASIN : B004MMXKJA
Birds of Chew Valley Lake
Chew Valley Lake provides a unique opportunity to study this newly created man-made habitat over the last 70 years. It describes the Chew Valley before the lake, and the exceptional archaeological excavations and discoveries made during construction, as well as the celebrations of its opening by the young Queen and Prince Philip in 1956.
Birdwatching in and around CHESTER
Birdwatching in and around Chester - rare booklet produced by the RSPB and Chester City Council outlining birding sites of interest in, around and within travelling distance of Chester in North West England.
A Supplement to the Birds of Sandbach Flashes
A Supplemental Guide to The Birds of Sandbach Flashes 2000-2009 published in 2010. The book includes a Systematic List and a Checklist of all birds identified and recorded at this Cheshire birding site over the 10 year period that this guide covers.
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