Ashleworth Ham

Birdwatching at Ashleworth Ham Gloucestershire

258.-acre biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is a large area of grassland on the Severn floodplain, north of Ashleworth in Gloucestershire...

Cotswold Water Park

Birdwatching at Cotswold Water Park Gloucestershire

The Cotswold Water Park is the United Kingdom's largest marl lake system. The lakes were created over the last 50 years by extraction of glacial Jurassic limestone gravel, which had eroded from the Cotswold Hills...

Higham Woods RSPB

Birdwatching at Highnam Woods RSPB Reserve Gloucestershire

A long, thin piece of woodland which boasts a wide variety of special species. It's best visited in spring, when you can hear the glorious song of newly-arrived nightingales.....

Lower Woods Nature Reserve

Birdwatching at Lower Woods Nature Reserve Gloucestershire

Excellent site to compare willow and marsh tit. All three woodpeckers. wryneck in the past...

Nagshead RSPB Reserve

Birdwatching at Nagshead Nature Reserve Gloucestershire. Free birdwatching guide

This woodland reserve is famous for its breeding pied flycatchers. Their nestboxes have been monitored since 1948. Also look for hawfinches, wood warblers, buzzards and ravens..

Slimbridge WWT

Birdwatching at Slimbridge WWT Reserve

The site consists of 800 hectares (2,000 acres) of reserve, of which part is landscaped and can be visited by the public. At Slimbridge is the largest collection of wildfowl species in the world, and wild birds mingle with these in the enclosures.

Symond's Yat Rock

Birdwatching at Symond's Yat Rock Gloucestershire

With spectacular views across the River Wye and the forest beyond, Symonds Yat Rock is a fabulous scenic viewpoint towering 120 metres above the river on the Gloucestershire side. Nesting Peregrine, migrating raptors...

GLOUCESTERSHIRE


Browse a range of New and used Avifauna for the English county of Gloucestershire.


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The Birds of Gloucestershire

This is the most comprehensive account of Gloucestershire's birds ever produced will be published this autumn. The Birds of Gloucestershire includes all the species that have ever been recorded in the county, with details of all rarities, and sites and dates of occurrence of passage migrants. The book features detailed maps for over 130 regular species, based on four years of atlas fieldwork carried out by hundreds of volunteers, and also describes the bird habitats and the history of bird watching and conservation in the county; graphs, tables and statistics illustrate the patterns of occurrence of many species. Some of Britain's most prominent bird artists, past and present, including Jackie Garner, Robert Gillmor, Terence Lambert, Peter Partington, Peter Scott and Keith Shackleton, have provided 200 beautiful illustrations for The Birds of Gloucestershire, which sit alongside sumptuous photographs of many of the birds and the county's landscapes.

Birds of Gloucestershire

.The introduction and the first four chapters describe the main regions of Gloucestershire from the ornithologist's point of view, and also include geological and geographical notes designed to assist in understanding the present-day distribution of birds in the county.
Then follows a chapter on migration which gives some account of spring and autumn bird movements in relation to Gloucestershire, both true migration and other movements such as those in relation to severe weather. Chapter VI discusses the history of bird study in Gloucestershire, and includes some discussion of the problems which arise in assessing the reliability of old records. The ornithological work of the county's main Natural History Societies is then outlined ,followed by an account of changes over the past hundred years or so.

Birds of the Cotswolds: A New Breeding Atlas

Since the 1980s the bird life of the Cotswolds has seen significant changes, many of them subtle but some spectacular. This beautifully illustrated and extensively researched book, the product of five years' field work exposes these changes with the aid of simple and clear colour maps which give not only a detailed but easily understood picture of the breeding distributions of bird species in the area today, but also a comparison with 20 years ago. The maps are accompanied by descriptive accounts for each species, often containing fascinating local information. 

Atlas of Cotswold Breeding Birds

120 page paperback publication by the North Cotswold Ornithological Group. Feature comprehensive atlas of all breeding birds and several nice b/w illustrations showing birding areas of interest.

Forty Years On - A Celebration of Gloucestershire Wildlife

  • ASIN : B0010OMOIQ
  • Publisher : Dursley Birdwatching and Preservation Society , Dursley (1 Jan. 1993)
  • Paperback : 
  • 188 pages

Where To Watch Birds in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire

Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire are among Britain's finest counties in terms of habitat diversity, and their avifaunas are comparatively rich as a result.

Much has changed in the region since the previous edition of this book - the famous Avalon marshes, for example, have become one of Britain's finest hotspots for wetland birds, for example - but this brand-new fourth edition offers a completely updated review of all the major sites, and many more lesser known ones, with new text and fully revised maps throughout.


Gloucestershire Bird Report 1998

  • ASIN : B0000EHR1A
  • Publisher : Gloucestershire Ornithological Coordinating Committee (1 Jan. 1999)
  • Language : English
  • Paperback : 
  • 190 pages

GLOUCESTERSHIRE BIRD REPORT 1979

  • ASIN : B00C8B38QC
  • Publisher : Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society (1 Jan. 1979)

The Wild Geese of the Newgrounds

This book tells the story of how Sir Peter Scott came to Slimbridge and set up his world famous Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE BIRD REPORT 1984 

  • ASIN : B00CUOCVNS
  • Publisher : Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society (1 Jan. 1984)

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