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Cornwall Nature Reserves - Cornwall Wildlife Trust |
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Locations: Our head office is just outside Truro at Allet in our Five Acres Nature Reserve, but we work across the whole of Cornwall. No other organisation does what we do, which is to work solely to protect Cornwall's wildlife and wild places, particularly habitats and species that are rare or endangered, such as lowland heathland habitat and the marsh fritillary butterfly
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Telephone: 01872 273939
Features: Cornwall Wildlife Trust owns or manages 55 nature reserves covering over 5000 acres (2000 hectares), in which examples of each of Cornwall's habitats give refuge to nationally rare and endangered species.
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Hayle
Estuary - RSPB |
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Location: SW550370 - Just west of Hayle town.
Admission: Free
Facilities: Hide and parking.
Telephone: 01736 711682
Features: Small but important estuary. Wintering duck,
gulls and grebes, passage waders and terns, including many
records of rarities.
(right - 1st winter Metiterranean
gull)
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Marazion
Marsh - RSPB |
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Reedbeds
and open water.
Location: Marazion, east of Penzance.
Road: A30
Facilities: Public footpath. Good views available from
road and car park.
Features: Cornwall's largest reedbed, with breeding Reed
and Sedge warblers. Good for migrants and speciality is autumn
Aquatic warbler (rare). Small but locally important populations
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Stithians
Reservoir - Cornwall Birdwatching & Preservation
Society |
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Location:
SS715365 - Near Stithians village.
Road: from A394 (Helston to Penryn) to Stithians, then
signed to Carnkie. Facilities: Hides (keys from CBPS
but good views available from causeway).
Admission: Free
Features: Parts of lake shallow with marshy edges proving
attractive to waders and duck. Best in winter and passage periods. |
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Tamar
Lakes - South West Water |
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Location:
SS295115 - Near Kilkhampton
Road: Off A39 then B3254 at Kilkhampton.
Facilities: Visitor centre, hides, cafe and toilets.
Admission: Permit required for some areas.
Telephone: 01288 321262
Features: Two neighbouring reservoirs. Best in winter
and passage periods. Wildfowl, waders, raptors and Black tern
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