Water Rail

Aldermaston Gravel Pits is a 23.41 hectare (57.75 acre) Site of Special Scientific Interest in the civil parish of Aldermaston in the English county of Berkshire, notified in 1955. Binomial name Rallus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus) is a small wetland bird of the rail family. ... A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. ... A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... View of Aldermaston village circa 1959 Aldermaston is a village in the English county of Berkshire, two miles north of Tadley. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Berkshire (IPA: or  ; sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a county in England and forms part of the South East England region. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Lacated at grid reference SU596668, this site consists of mature flooded gravel workings surrounded by dense fringing vegetation, trees and scrub, affording a variety of habitats for breeding birds and a refuge for wildfowl. The irregular shoreline, with islands, promontories, sheltered eutrophic pools and narrow lagoons provides undisturbed habitat for many water birds including surface feeding ducks such as Teal (Anas crecca) and Shoveler (Anas clypeata). The surrounding marsh and scrub are important for numerous birds including nine breeding species of Warblers, Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus), Kingfishers (Alcedoa atthis) and an important breeding colony of Nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos).^[1] The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... Gravel being unloaded from a barge Gravel is rock that is of a certain grain size range. ... Teal may mean: Look up Teal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A type of duck, for example The Common Teal, Anas crecca The Green-winged Teal, Anas carolinensis The Black Teal, Aythya novaeseelandiae The Brown Teal, Anas aucklandica The Silver Teal, Anas versicolor The Cape Teal, Anas capensis teal (color... Binomial name Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758 The Shoveler or Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata ) is a common and widespread duck which breeds in the northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America. ... There are three groups of passerine birds, order Passeriformes, which are called warblers. ... Binomial name Rallus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus) is a small wetland bird of the rail family. ... For the UK high-street retail company, see Kingfisher plc. ... Nightingales was an unusual British sitcom produced by Channel 4 in the early 1990s. ...

In 2002 English Nature bought Aldermaston Gravel Pits from the mineral extraction company Grundon for £925,000.^[2] and it is managed as a nature reserve by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.^[3] English Nature is the United Kingdom Government Agency that promotes the conservation of wildlife, geology and wild places throughout England. ... A nature reserve (natural reserve, nature preserve, natural preserve) is an area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. ... The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in England. ...

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External links

• Video of Aldermaston Gravel Pits from BBC Berks