Great crested grebe
The graceful great crested grebe is a familiar sight on our lakes and reservoirs, and is well-known for its elaborate courtship dance, during which it rises vertically out of the water and shakes…
Chwilio
Speckled wood butterfly - Vicky Nall
Chwilio
Little ringed plover
The little ringed plover first nested in the UK in 1938, but has since moved in happily! It has taken advantage of an increase in man-made flooded gravel pits, reservoirs and quarries that provide…
Teal
The teal is a pretty, little dabbling duck, which can be easily spotted in winter on reservoirs, gravel pits, and flooded meadows. Watching flocks of this bird wheel through a winter sky is a true…
Goosander
The streamlined goosander is a handsome bird and a great fisher - its long, serrated bill helps it to catch and hold its slippery fish prey. It nests in riverbank trees, but can be seen on lakes…
Môr-wenoliaid
During the summer, several species of tern return to nest on our shores, and increasingly on islands and inland reservoirs.
Cors y Wlad
Mae glöynnod byw prin yn hedfan heibio ar Gors y Wlad – gwlybdir ar lethrau is Bwlch Mawr, mynydd eiconig ym mhen dwyreiniol Penrhyn Llŷn.
Ringed plover
The ringed plover is a small wader that nests around the coast, flooded gravel pits and reservoirs. It is similar to the little ringed plover, but is a little larger, has an orange bill and legs,…
Police, camera, osprey!
This summer we were thrilled to hear that the Brenig Osprey Project was to be awarded the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales ‘Rural and Wildlife Crime Award’, following a nomination by…
Heddlu, camera, gwalch y pysgod!
Yr haf yma, roedden ni'n gyffrous o glywed bod Prosiect Gweilch y Pysgod y Brenig yn mynd i dderbyn ‘Gwobr Troseddau Gwledig a Bywyd Gwyllt’ Comisiynydd Heddlu a Throseddu Gogledd Cymru, yn…
Cors y Wlad
Rare butterflies flutter by on Cors y Wlad – a wetland on the lower slopes of Bwlch Mawr, an iconic mountain at the eastern end of the Llyn Peninsula
NWWT Strategy 2030 Bringing Nature Back
We need to restore nature at a global scale, on land and at sea. And it needs to happen now. Our Strategy 2030 'Bringing Nature Back' provides the high-level framework of how we intend to go about it.
Shoresearch Cymru - rocky shore surveys
This month we managed several surveys as well as joining the Porcupine Marine Natural History Society (PMNHS) for a joint investigation of the shores at Clynnog fawr, close to the North Llyn coast…