WWT Slimbridge is a wetland wildlife reserve near Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, England. It is midway between Bristol and Gloucester on the eastern side of the estuary of the River Severn. The reserve, set up by the artist and naturalist Sir Peter Scott, opened in November 1946. Scott subsequently founded the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, which has since opened nine other reserves around the country. Slimbridge comprises some 800 hectares (2,000 acres) of pasture, reed bed, lagoon and salt marsh. Many water birds live there all year round, and others are migrants on their ways to and from their summer breeding grounds. Other birds overwinter, including large numbers of white-fronted geese and increasing numbers of Bewick's swans.
Besides having the world's largest collection of captive wildfowl, Slimbridge takes part in research and is involved in projects and internationally run captive breeding programmes. It was there that Peter Scott developed a method of recognising individual birds through their characteristics, after realising that the coloured patterns on the beaks of Bewick's swans were unique. The public can visit the reserve throughout the year. Besides examining the collections, they can view birds from hides and observatories and take part in educational activities.
WWTSlimbridge is a wetland wildlife reserve near Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, England. It is midway between Bristol and Gloucester on the eastern side...
Slimbridge is a village and civil parish near Dursley in Gloucestershire, England. It is best known as the home of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust's Slimbridge...
sandvicensis) is endemic to the Hawaiian islands, but was introduced to WWTSlimbridge in the UK to increase its numbers for reintroduction to its native range...
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institutions, Diergaarde Blijdorp, Münster Zoo, Prague Zoo, Wrocław Zoo and WWTSlimbridge already managed to breed it in the first year. In early 2019 (prior...
Geese of the Newgrounds by Paul Walkden. Published by the Friends of WWTSlimbridge, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9561070-0-8. Illustrated with colour plates and ink...
Trumpeter Swan Society Conference. 17: 109–114. "IDENTIFY TRUMPETER SWAN - WWTSLIMBRIDGE". www.slim-bridge.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-02-12. Evans, Lee G. R. (2014-12-14)...
are hard to tell apart from the green-winged teal however. Female, WWTSlimbridge in Gloucestershire, England Drake in eclipse plumage (rightmost bird)...
presented by Tony Soper, initially from locations around Britain including Slimbridge, Minsmere, the River Exe, the Farne Islands and Martin Mere. Later series...
among other grey goose species – among the most regular localities are WWTSlimbridge, Gloucestershire and Holkham Marshes, Norfolk. The Taiga bean geese...
Peter's schools. When West Downs closed, the memorial was relocated to WWTSlimbridge, the nature reserve he had established. A memorial plaque to Captain...
among other grey goose species – among the most regular localities are WWTSlimbridge, Gloucestershire and Holkham Marshes, Norfolk. Wikimedia Commons has...
Red shoveler Male at WWTSlimbridge, England Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia...
2021. Toronto Zoo Blanding's Turtle Headstarting Project on YouTube Video of Spoon-billed sandpiper chicks at WWTSlimbridge. The Guardian, July 2012....
new wetland site. A rearing facility or "crane school" was set up at WWTSlimbridge; this consists of a 1-acre (4,000 m2) marsh garden designed to rear...
visit a Ribena factory. Then he takes the train to Cam and Dursley for WWTSlimbridge, where he hears how Sir Peter Scott set up this wetland wildlife reserve...
Wetlands Trust (WWT), in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1951 after an expedition to ring pink-footed geese. She died, aged 91, in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire...
(the latter which had little to do with transport and concentrated on WWTSlimbridge in Gloucestershire, founded by Peter Scott (who also narrated). BTF...
Kingdom. ECOS Millennium Environmental Centre, Ballymena, County Antrim WWT Castle Espie, Comber, County Down Aigas Field Centre, Beauly, Inverness-shire...
in France, and Geoffrey Matthews of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge in the late 1960s. The conference, which adopted the terms of the agreement...
was the avicultural coordinator at WWT. She married Geoffrey Vernon Townsend Matthews, another researcher at the WWT, in 1964. They separated in 1978....
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