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NEAREST TOWNS Search for places to go birding near your town (eg type Oxford and click Go Birding) Just show me RSPB reserves only - tick box COUNTIES Browse places to go birding by selecting a County below and click Go Birding Aberdeenshire Anglesey Bedfordshire Berkshire Borders Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Central Cheshire Cleveland Clwyd Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dumfries and Galloway Dyfed East Sussex East Yorkshire Essex Fife Glamorgan Gloucestershire Grampian Gwent Gwynedd Hampshire Hertfordshire Highland Humberside Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Lothian Merseyside Mid Glamorgan Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Orkney Oxfordshire Pembrokeshire Perth and Kinross Powys Shetland Shropshire Somerset South Glamorgan Staffordshire Strathclyde Suffolk Surrey Tayside Tyne and Wear West Midlands West Sussex Western Isles Warwickshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Just show me RSPB reserves only - tick box

ADVANCED SEARCH Search for a particular birding place (eg Minsmere) Or select from the list below Abberton Reservoir Aberlady Bay Acres Down Alice Holt Forest Amberley Wild Brooks Arlington Reservoir Arne RSPB Reserve Arundel WWT Ashdown Forest Ashley Walk Attenborough Gravel Pits Balranald RSPB Reserve Banff Harbour Bardsey Island Barn Elms Wetland Reserve Barons Haugh RSPB Reserve Bass Rock Bassenthwaite Lake Beachy Head Beaulieu Rd Station Beddington Sewage Farm Bedgebury Forest Belvide Reservoir Bempton Cliffs RSPB Reserve Benacre Bewl Water Birsay RSPB Reserve Blacktoft Sands RSPB Reserve Blakeney Point and Harbour Blithfield Reservoir Blow's Downs Blyth Estuary Bodmin Moor - Upper Fowey and Dozmary Pool Bolderwood Bough Beech Reservoir Breydon Water Bridgwater Bay Brighton Marina Brownsea Island Budle Bay Burnham on Sea Caerlaverock WWT Cairngorm Camel Estuary Campfield Marsh RSPB Reserve Cannock Chase Carn Ban Mor Carnforth Marsh Carr Vale Nature Reserve Castle Carrock Reservoir Chasewater Chew Valley Lake Chichester Gravel Pits Church Wood RSPB Reserve Church Wood Churnet Valley Woods RSPB Reserve Cley-next-the-Sea Cliffe Pools Clumber Park Coll RSPB Reserve Coniston Water Conwy RSPB Reserve Coombes Valley RSPB Reserve Cot Valley Cotswold Water Park Crystal Palace Cuckmere Haven Culbin Sands RSPB Reserve Dawlish Warren and Exe Estuary Dinas Hill Gwenffrwd Dinas Island Draycote Water Drift Reservoir Dulwich Woods Dungeness Dunnet Head Durlston Country Park Dyffryn Wood RSPB Reserve Eden Valley Elmley Marshes RSPB Reserve Epping Forest Exmoor National Park Eyebrook Reservoir Fair Isle Fairburn Ings RSPB Fairy Glen RSPB Reserve Farlington Marshes Farne Islands Ferry Meadows Fetlar Fife Ness Filey Brigg Findhorn Valley Fingeringhoe Wick Flamborough Head Fleet Pond Foreness Point Forest of Dean Forsinaird RSPB Reserve Foulney Island Fowlmere RSPB Reserve Fowlsheugh RSPB Reserve Frensham Common Frodsham Marsh and Weaver Bend Gayton Sands RSPB Reserve Geltsdale RSPB Reserve Gibraltar Point Glenborrodale RSPB Reserve Gower Peninsula Grafham Water Great Orme Grizedale Forest Haldon Forest Handa Hanningfield Reservoir Hastings Country Park Havergate Island RSPB Reserve Haweswater RSPB Reserve Hayle Estuary and Carnsew Headland Warren Hengistbury Head Heysham Harbour and Power Station Hickling Broad Highnam Woods RSPB Reserve Hilbre Island Hinkley Point Hobbister RSPB Reserve Hodbarrow RSPB Reserve Holkham and Wells Holme and Thornham Harbour Holyhead Anglesey Hornsea Mere Inner Solway Insh Marshes RSPB Reserve Inverdruie Fish Farm Aviemore Inverpoly National Nature Reserve Inversnaid RSPB Reserve Iping and Stedham Commons Islay Isle of May Isles of Scilly Kenfig Pool and Dunes Kenidjack Valley Kingley Vale Kingsbridge Estuary Kirkwall Harbour Lands End Airfield Langstone Harbour Marshes Lannacombe Bay Lee Country Park Leighton Moss RSPB Reserve Lerwick Harbour Limpsfield Chart Lindisfarne and Holy Island Little Paxton Gravel Pits Lizard Llanthony Valley Llanwrtyd Wells Loch Fleet Loch Garten RSPB Reserve Loch Ken RSPB Reserve Loch of Kinnordy RSPB Reserve Loch of Strathbeg RSPB Reserve Loch Ruthven RSPB Reserve Loch Spiggie RSPB Reserve Lochindorb Lochwinnoch RSPB Reserve Lodmoor RSPB Reserve Long Mynd Lower Derwent Valley Lower Test Marshes Lullington Heath Lundy Malvern Hills Marazion Marsh RSPB and Mounts Bay Marsden Rock Marshside RSPB Reserve Martin Down Martin Mere Marwick Head RSPB Reserve Mawddach Valley RSPB Reserve Mayday Farm Minsmere RSPB Reserve Montrose Basin Morecambe Bay Mull of Galloway RSPB Reserve Musselburgh Nagshead RSPB Reserve Nanquidno Valley Navax Point Nene Washes RSPB New Hythe North Ronaldsay Northward Hill Ogston Reservoir Old Hall Marshes RSPB Outer Solway Pagham Harbour and Church Norton Pendeen Pennington Marshes Peterstone Wentlooge Pevensey Levels Pitsford Reservoir Plym Estuary Point of Ayr - Dee Estuary Pool of Virkie Porthgwarra Portland Bill Portland Harbour Prawle Point Pulborough Brooks RSPB Reserve Radipole RSPB Reserve Rainham Marsh Ribble Estuary Richmond Park Roydon Common Rutland Water Rye Harbour Rye Meads RSPB Reserve Salcey Forest Sandwell Valley RSPB Reserve Sandwich Bay Scapa Flow Seaforth Nature Reserve and Crosby Marina Selsey Bill Sevenoaks Wildfowl Refuge Shapwick Heath and Westhay Moor Shibdon Pond Nature Reserve Skokholm Bird Observatory Skomer Slapton Ley Slimbridge Snettisham RSPB Reserve South Downs - Cissbury South Gare South Norwood South Stack RSPB Reserve Southend Pier Spurn Head St Abb's Head St Bees Head St Catherine's Point St David's Head St Ives Island St Margarets Bay Staines Reservoir Stanpit Marshes Steart and Fenning Islands Stithians Reservoir Stodmarsh and Grove Ferry Stromness Harbour Strumpshaw Fen Studland Heath Studland Nature Reserve Sumburgh Head and Sumburgh Hotel gardens Sumburgh Head Sunbiggin Tarn Talkin Tarn Taw - Torridge Estuary Tees Mouth The Lodge Sandy RSPB Headquarters The Loons RSPB Reserve The Ouse Washes RSPB The Swale Shell Ness The Upper Derwent Valley and Dams Theale Pits Thetford Forest Thorney Island Titchfield Haven Titchwell RSPB Marsh Trevalga Trimley Marshes Truro and Tresillian Estuaries Tyne Estuary Udale Bay RSPB Reserve Ullswater Unst Hermaness Upton Warren Valley Lakes RSPB Reserve Vane Farm RSPB Reserve Virginia Water Walberswick RSPB Reserve Walney Island Walton-on-the-Naze Weeting Heath Weir Wood Reservoir Welney Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust West Sedgemore RSPB Reserve Westray Noup Head RSPB Reserve Wicken Sedge Fen RSPB Reserve Willen Lake Willington Gravel Pits Woburn Abbey Wood of Cree RSPB Reserve Woolston Eyes Worms Head Wraysbury Wyre Forest Yarner Wood Ynys-hir - Dyfi Estuary Ythan Estuary Find out where to see a particular species American Wigeon Aquatic Warbler Arctic Skua Arctic Tern Bar-tailed Godwit Barn Owl Barn Swallow Barnacle Goose Barred Warbler Bearded Tit Bewick's Swan Black Brant Black Grouse Black Guillemot Black Redstart Black Tern Black-headed Gull Black-necked Grebe Black-tailed Godwit Black-throated Diver Blackbird Blackcap Blue Tit Blue-headed Wagtail Bluethroat Brambling Bullfinch Canada Goose Capercailie Carrion Crow Caspian Gull Cetti's Warbler Chaffinch Chiffchaff Cirl Bunting Coal Tit Collared Dove Common Buzzard Common Coot Common Crane Common Crossbill Cuckoo Common Eider Common Goldeneye Grasshopper Warbler Guillemot Common Gull Kingfisher Nightingale Pheasant Common Pochard Common Redpoll Redshank Common Redstart Common Sandpiper Common Scoter Shelduck Snipe Starling Stonechat Swift Common Tern Whitethroat Corn Bunting Corncrake Cory's Shearwater Curlew Sandpiper Dartford Warbler Dipper Dotterel Dunlin Dunnock Egyptian Goose Curlew Kestrel Nuthatch Siskin Skylark Eurasian Sparrowhawk Eurasian Teal Treecreeper Eurasian Wigeon Bittern Nightjar Reed Warbler Robin Storm Petrel Fieldfare Firecrest Gadwall Garden Warbler Garganey Glaucous Gull Golden Eagle Golden Oriole Golden Pheasant Goldfinch Goosander Goshawk Great Black-backed Gull Great Grey Shrike Great Northern Diver Great Shearwater Great Skua Great Tit Great-crested Grebe Great-spotted Woodpecker Cormorant Greater Golden Plover Greater Scaup Green Sandpiper Green Woodpecker Green-winged Teal Greenfinch Greenland White-fronted Goose Greenshank Grey Heron Grey Partridge Grey Phalarope Grey Plover Grey Wagtail Greylag Goose Hawfinch Hen Harrier Herring Gull Hobby Honey Buzzard Hooded Crow Hoopoe Horned Lark House Martin House Sparrow Iceland Gull Icterine Warbler Jack Snipe Jackdaw Jay Kentish Plover Kittiwake Lady Amherst's Pheasant Lapland Longspur Lapwing Lesser Black-backed Gull Lesser Whitethroat Lesser-spotted Woodpecker Linnet Little Auk Little Egret Little Grebe Little Gull Little Owl Little Ringed Plover Little Stint Little Tern Long-eared Owl Long-tailed Duck Long-tailed Skua Long-tailed Tit Magpie Mallard Duck Mandarin Duck Manx Shearwater Marsh Harrier Marsh Tit Meadow Pipit Mediterranean Gull Mediterranean Shearwater Melodious Warbler Merlin Mistle Thrush Montagu's Harrier Moorhen Mute Swan Northern Fulmar Northern Gannet Northern Wheatear Osprey Oystercatcher Pale-bellied Brent Goose Pectoral Sandpiper Peregrine Falcon Pied Avocet Pied Flycatcher Pied Wagtail Pink-footed Goose Pintail Pomarine Skua Ptarmigan Puffin Purple Sandpiper Quail Raven Razorbill Red Grouse Red Kite Red Knot Red-backed Shrike Red-billed Chough Red-breasted Flycatcher Red-breasted Merganser Red-legged Partridge Red-necked Grebe Red-necked Phalarope Red-throated Diver Red-throated Pipit Redwing Reed Bunting Richard's Pipit Ring Ouzel Ringed Plover Rock Dove Rock Pipit Rook Parakeet Roseate Tern Rough-legged Buzzard Ruddy Duck Ruff Sabine's Gull Sand Martin Sanderling Sandwich Tern Savi's Warbler Sedge Warbler Shag Short-eared Owl Shoveler Slavonian Grebe Smew Snow Bunting Snow Goose Snowy Owl Song Thrush Sooty Shearwater Spoonbill Spotted Crake Spotted Flycatcher Spotted Redshank Stock Dove Stone Curlew Taiga Bean Goose Tawny Owl Temminck's Stint Tree Pipit Tree Sparrow Tufted Duck Tundra Bean Goose Turnstone Turtle Dove Twite Velvet Scoter Water Pipit Water Rail Whimbrel Whinchat White Wagtail White-fronted Goose White-tailed Eagle Whooper Swan Willow Tit Willow Warbler Wood Sandpiper Wood Warbler Woodchat Shrike Woodcock Woodlark Woodpigeon Wren Wryneck Yellow Wagtail Yellow-browed Warbler Yellowhammer Find out where to see a particular species in a county (eg type shearwater and select Cornwall and you can see where to see these birds in Cornwall) Aberdeenshire Anglesey Bedfordshire Berkshire Borders Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Central Cheshire Cleveland Clwyd Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dumfries and Galloway Dyfed East Sussex Essex Fife Glamorgan Gloucestershire Grampian Gwent Gwynedd Hampshire Hertfordshire Highland Humberside Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Lothian Merseyside Mid Glamorgan Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Orkney Oxfordshire Pembrokeshire Perth and Kinross Powys Shetland Shropshire Somerset South Glamorgan South Yorkshire Staffordshire Strathclyde Suffolk Surrey Tayside Tyne and Wear West Midlands West Sussex Western Isles Warwickshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Photos & Sightings from a specific County