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Connah's Quay Ponds and Woodland

… Quay. The site is of special interest for its population of great crested newt Triturus cristatus, its assemblage of widespread amphibian species, and for its semi-natural broadleaved woodland. Upper Carboniferous sandstones with overlying glacial deposits shape the overall char…

Buckley Claypits and Commons

…d 140 m. It is of special interest for its population of the great crested newt Triturus cristatus, its assemblage of widespread amphibian species, and for its mosaic of semi-natural grassland. The solid geology of the site consists of deposits of Carboniferous Middle Coal Measur…

Maes y Grug

… site is of special interest for its large population of the great crested newt Triturus cristatus. This species has suffered a marked decline throughout great Britain and continental Europe as a result of habitat loss and pollution. great Britain is one of the strongholds of thi…

Stryt Las a'r Hafod

… amphibians. Of particular interest is the population of the great crested newt Triturus cristatus. This species has suffered a marked decline throughout great Britain and Continental Europe as a result of habitat loss. great Britain is considered to be one of the strongholds for…

Newborough Warren - Ynys Llanddwyn

…al leech Hirudo medicinalis. There is also a small population of the warty newt Triturus cristatus. Intertidal mudflats and saltmarshes adjoining the dunes at Traeth Abermenai and Malltraeth Sands are important wintering grounds for wading birds and wildfowl, regularly supporting…

Burrow Head

… special scientific interest for its population of breeding great crested newts Triturus cristatus, which is the most significant population in the region and one of the largest breeding populations in Scotland. The site accounts for an estimated 22% of the known Scottish great c…

Silloth Dunes and Mawbray Bank

…or the nationally rare natterjack toad Epidalea calamita and great crested newt Triturus cristatus. Strandline vegetation occurs as a narrow and discontinuous band along the high water tide line of the shingle foreshore. It is typified by sea sandwort Honckenya peploides and sea…

Morfa Dyffryn

…extensive areas of neutral grassland with frequent crested dog’s-tail Cynosurus cristatus and common knapweed Centaurea nigra. The nationally scarce smooth cat’s-ear Hypochaeris glabra, an annual colonist of bare disturbed sandy ground, has been recorded from this site, although …

Turflundie Wood

…Kinross. It is of importance for its population of breeding great crested newts Triturus cristatus, which is the only known breeding population in east Perth & Kinross, and for its assemblage of breeding amphibians, which is the richest in east Perth & Kinross. Turflundie Wood is…

Annesley Woodhouse Quarries

…hich includes a nationally important breeding population of great crested newts Triturus cristatus. General description Situated within the valley of the Cuttail Brook on the Carboniferous Coal Measures and the Permian Magnesian Limestone escarpment, the site contains an extensi…

Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay

…d three species during passage periods; meta-populations of great crested newts Triturus cristatus; endemic species and subspecies of invertebrates; populations of two invertebrate species listed in Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as amended; populations of te…

Bewick and Beanley Moors

…rt an outstanding assemblage of five amphibian species, including great crested Triturus cristatus, palmate Lissotriton helveticus and smooth newts Lissotriton vulgaris, common frog Rana temporaria and common toad Bufo bufo. In addition to the reasons for notification described …

Chattenden Woods And Lodge Hill

…al grassland of the nationally scarce NVC type MG5 crested dog’s tail Cynosurus cristatus – common knapweed Centaurea nigra grassland; and breeding nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos. General description Chattenden Woods and Lodge Hill SSSI lies on the Hoo Peninsula in north Ken…

Ruperra Castle and Woodlands

…present within the site include a breeding population of the great crested newt Triturus cristatus in the ornamental pond within the castle grounds and the common dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius, which is present in Coed Craig Ruperra. Remarks: Both species of horseshoe bats, …

Ripon Parks

…ant for amphibians, both smooth and great crested newt Lissotriton vulgaris and Triturus cristatus, being present. The invertebrates include the local weevil Limnobaris pilistriata, a sawfly Rhadinocera micans and a bug Acompus rufipes. Grassland influenced by underlying magnesi…

Orton Pit

… special scientific interest by reason of its population of great crested newts Triturus cristatus and a network of meso eutrophic standing water habitats which support an assemblage of nationally rare and scarce charophyte stonewort species. General description Orton Pit contai…

Woolmer Forest

… the natterjack toad Epidalea calamita and also supports the great crested newt Triturus cristatus in the more nutrient enriched pools around the edge of Woolmer Pond. Two separate colonies of sand lizard Lacerta agilis are known within the SSSI whilst the distribution of smooth …

Chwarel Cambrian / Cambrian Quarry, Gwernymynydd

…ipistrellus pygmaeus. The site also supports a population of great crested newt Triturus cristatus and other widespread amphibians including common toad Bufo bufo, smooth newt Lissotriton vulgaris and palmate newt Lissotriton helveticus. It also supports populations of the local …

New Hartley Ponds

…common darter Sympetrum striolatum. Other Information * The great crested newt Triturus cristatus is a protected species under schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

Northwick Marsh

…The site is also known to have grass snake Natrix natrix and great crested newt Triturus cristatus.

Salisbury Plain

…nd. Other species of interest on Salisbury Plain include the great crested newt Triturus cristatus. This newt occurs in dew ponds across the Plain and in pools along the Nine Mile River, together with smooth newt T. vulgaris, common frog Rana temporaria and common toad Bufo bufo.…

Muston Meadows

…a rubra, sweet vernal grass Anthoxanthum odoratum, crested dog's tail Cynosurus cristatus and quaking grass Briza media. Herbs include an abundance of pignut Conopodium majus, cowslip Primula veris, yellow rattle Rhinanthus minor, pepper saxifrage Silaum silaus, lady's bedstraw G…

Granllyn

… is of special interest for the largest known population of great crested newts Triturus cristatus in Montgomeryshire. This is an uncommon species in mid Wales, and is declining and rare elsewhere in Europe. The hollow in which Granllyn Pool was formed lies on the local Ordovicia…

Sefton Coast

…lizard Lacerta agilis, natterjack toad Epidalea calamita and great crested newt Triturus cristatus are also of special interest, along with the populations of the Red Data Book species, sandhill rustic moth Luperina nickerlii gueneei. The Sefton Coast is also of special interest…

Upper Solway Flats and Marshes

…t the northern limit of their range in Britain. The uncommon great crested newt Triturus cristatus also breeds within the site. Other interests While not currently a notified feature in recent years a population of the tadpole shrimp Triops cancriformis has been confirmed from me…

Fritton Common

… beetle Ilybius subaeneus. The ponds are also breeding sites for the warty newt Triturus cristatus.

Hockering Wood

…he woodland ponds which support a breeding population of the great crested newt Triturus cristatus, a species protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Blocks of conifer, hardwood and mixed hardwood conifer plantation are also present.

Lovell Hill Pools

…ls and surrounding habitats also support populations of both great crested newt Triturus cristatus and smooth newt T. vulgaris.

Whitecross Green and Oriel Woods

…ss snakes are common in the more open areas and the pond contains crested newts Triturus cristatus.

Crookhill Brick Pit

…rtant site because it supports an exceptional population of great crested newts Triturus cristatus. The SSSI includes the breeding ponds and the terrestrial habitat that is used by the newts for resting, foraging and hibernation. General description Crookhill Brick Pit is located…

Woolston Eyes

…e assemblage, little grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis, great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus, mute swan Cygnus olor, shelduck Tadorna tadorna, teal Anas crecca, shoveler Spatula clypeata, tufted duck Aythya fuligula, water rail Rallus aquaticus, cuckoo Cuculus canorus, kingfisher Al…

Little Wittenham

…te supports one of the largest known breeding populations of great crested newt Triturus cristatus in the UK. The site also supports an outstanding breeding assemblage of amphibians, which include smooth newt, common frogs and common toads and of dragonflies and damselflies. Gen…

Upper Solway Flats & Marshes

…t the northern limit of their range in Britain. The uncommon great crested newt Triturus cristatus also breeds within the site. The invertebrates of the estuary are a vitally important feature of the food chain and the reason why the high numbers of wading birds can be supported.…

Y Bonc, Marianglas

…e areas in the fields of the southern section. These are typical of a Cynosurus cristatus-Centaurea nigra (Lathyrus pratensis sub-community) grassland and includes common bent Agrostis capillaris, crested dog’s-tail Cynosurus cristatus, sweet vernal-grass Anthoxanthum odoratum an…

Grafham Water

…has held nationally important numbers of wintering great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus, tufted duck Aythya fuligula and coot Fulica atra. The site is also of national importance for the numbers of moulting mute swan Cygnus olor present in late summer. Additionally it is one of…

Thompson Water, Carr and Common

…f the pool frog Rana lessonae and the largest population of great crested newts Triturus cristatus currently known in West Norfolk. Around the margins of depressions and in seasonally dry hollows a wide variety of wetland habitats has developed. Where water level fluctuations are…

Haydon Meadow

…a rubra, sweet vernal grass Anthoxanthum odoratum, crested dog's tail Cynosurus cristatus, Yorkshire fog Holcus lanatus and yellow oat grass Trisetum flavescens are all frequent and are joined by several other grasses, including meadow fox tail Alopecurus pratensis, perennial rye…

Pewsey Downs

…pholita caecana and the snail Abida secale. The specially protected warty newt Triturus cristatus breeds in some of the remaining dewponds.

Kirk Deighton

…te supports one of the largest known breeding populations of great crested newt Triturus cristatus in the UK. Kirk Deighton is located on the outskirts of the village of Kirk Deighton, situated just north of Wetherby. The main feature is a shallow pond, which is seasonal in nat…

Farningham Wood

…, the ponds support 3 species of newt including the uncommon great crested newt Triturus cristatus.

Chanctonbury Hill

…ies two of the three native British newts; one of these, the great crested newt Triturus cristatus, is specially protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. The dominant woodland trees are beech Fagus sylvatica and ash Fraxinus excelsior but pedunculate oak Quercus robur, f…

Moss Valley

…ix which inhabit the wet grassland areas of the Moss Brook. great crested newts Triturus cristatus are recorded from the site and the native British freshwater crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes is found in the waters of the Moss Brook. The valley is also important for breeding b…

Stones Road Pond

…ond which is an important breeding locality for the great crested or warty newt Triturus cristatus. The site is situated in an urban area on the edge of a former playing field and adjacent to allotment gardens. The pond is surrounded by a strip of semi natural vegetation includin…

Swannington Upgate Common

…ing conditions for several species of amphibian including the scarce warty newt Triturus cristatus. The variety of habitats supports a wide range of breeding birds including teal, woodcock, lesser whitethroat, sedge warbler and redpoll.

Longstone Moor

…rgins. These ponds have good populations of newts, including great crested newt Triturus cristatus.

Drewton Lane Pits

…f ponds which hold nationally important numbers of breeding great crested newts Triturus cristatus. great crested newts are protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Annual counts over the last 5 years suggest a total population exceeding 1,000 individu…

Misson Training Area

…ivialis, while animals such as grass snake Natrix natrix and great crested newt Triturus cristatus, with a restricted distribution in Nottinghamshire, occur on the site.

Rixton Clay Pits

… supports the county's largest known breeding population of great crested newts Triturus cristatus. Extraction of clay at different periods up to 1965 has left a mosaic of water filled hollows and clay banks which now support a diversity of habitats of varying maturity. Long aba…

Priddy Pools

…species of amphibian occur and there are good populations of great crested newt Triturus cristatus, smooth newt T. vulgaris and palmate newt Lissotriton helveticus. three species of reptile, viviparous lizard Lacerta agilis, adder Vipera berus, grass snake Natrix natrix and at le…

Chudleigh Knighton Heath

… the breeding grounds for a range of amphibia including the uncommon warty newt Triturus cristatus.

Torrs Warren - Luce Sands

…ifting dunes Shifting dunes with marram Subtidal sandbanks great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) Greenland white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons flavirostris) Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus)

Yardley Chase

…rea of its type in the East Midlands. It is of the crested dog’s tail Cynosurus cristatus common knapweed Centaurea nigra type. Local variation in soil structure and chemistry has allowed development of an intricate patchwork of different plant associations with over 120 flowerin…

Dew's Ponds

…e supports one of the largest known breeding populations of great crested newts Triturus cristatus in the UK. This site lies in north east Suffolk in the parish of Bramfield, some five kilometres south of the town of Halesworth and 10 kilometres west of the Suffolk coast. This …

Royal Ordnance, Powfoot

…es of the nationally rare natterjack toad Epidalea calamita, great crested newt Triturus cristatus and the single richest assemblage of amphibians in Dumfries and Galloway. Natterjack toads are endangered in Britain and this colony is one of only four in Scotland, all of which ar…

Ardley Cutting and Quarry

… part of a large population of the internationally protected great crested newt Triturus cristatus which spreads into several adjacent quarries.

Denby Grange Colliery Ponds

…ary. The site supports the largest known breeding colony of great crested newts Triturus cristatusin West Yorkshire. Counts in recent years indicate that the site has the sixth highest recorded count of great crested newts in great Britain. Large numbers of four other amphibian s…

The New Forest

…aris with some perennial rye grass Lolium perenne, crested dog's tail Cynosurus cristatus, daisy Bellis perennis and most distinctively mats of abundant chamomile Chamaemelum nobile, which is nationally rare and declining. Associated with these settlement edge lawns that are seas…

Glan-traeth

…tion of sand, support one of the largest breeding populations of the warty newt Triturus cristatus known in great Britain. Night counts have revealed over 500 animals on several occasions, and the total population is probably considerably larger. The species has suffered a marked…

Holnest

…ly important site because it supports a large population of great crested newts Triturus cristatus on the south western edge of their range. The SSSI consists of two areas, which include breeding ponds and terrestrial habitat that is used by the newts for resting, foraging and hi…

Gregynog

…cedula hypoleuca, and wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix. great crested newts Triturus cristatus have been recorded in ephemeral pools created after windblown trees are uprooted, and using piles of deadwood as hibernacula. Remarks This site includes the former great Wood, Gregy…

Fyfield Down

… site. One pond for example supports the specially protected great crested newt Triturus cristatus as well as the common toad Bufo bufo.

Ashdown Forest

…e ponds also have large amphibian populations, including the great crested newt Triturus cristatus. The heathlands and woods support many uncommon beetles, moths and butterflies. There are still several populations of the rare silver studded blue Plebejus argus on the open heath.…

Drigg Coast

…as well as populations of all four common amphibians and the great crested newt Triturus cristatus. Adder, slow worm and common lizard also inhabit the sand dune system.

Cwm Glo a Glyndyrys

…c. Typical grass species here include common bent, crested dog’s tail Cynosurus cristatus and red fescue Festuca rubra. Bird’s foot trefoil, black knapweed, autumn hawkbit Scorzoneroides autumnalis, common cat’s ear Hypochaeris radicata, eyebright Euphrasia sp., and, locally, wil…

Epping Forest

… of the native amphibians, smooth newt Lissotriton vulgaris, great crested newt Triturus cristatus, palmate newt Lissotriton helveticus, common toad Bufo bufo and common frog Rana temporaria. The Forest also supports four reptiles, the adder Vipera berus, grass snake Natrix natri…

Southampton Common

… newts Lissotriton helveticus, smooth newts T. vulgaris and great crested newts Triturus cristatus, together with common frogs Rana temporaria and common toads Bufo bufo, in considerable numbers. A second lake, known as the Ornamental Lake, also supports large populations of at …

Greenham and Crookham Commons

…mate, smooth and the great crested newt Lissotriton helveticus, T. vulgaris and Triturus cristatus.

Fens Pools

…ptional numbers of both smooth and great crested newts Lissotriton vulgaris and Triturus cristatus. The great crested newt population is one of the largest so far recorded in Britain. The swamp, fen and inundation communities associated with the open water include county rarities…

Powerstock Common and Wytherston Farm

…ants, dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius and a population of great crested newts Triturus cristatus at the south-western edge of their range. General Description Powerstock Common and Wytherston Farm comprises enclosed and unenclosed woodland, grassland, fen meadow and rush pastu…

Peter's Pit

…ion This site supports one of the largest populations of the great crested newt Triturus cristatus in Britain, a species afforded special protection under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Two other newt species also breed here together with frogs and at least two species of…

Moor Hall Meadows

… a species rich sward dominated by grasses such as crested dog's tail Cynosurus cristatus, sweet vernal grass Anthoxanthum odoratum, quaking grass Briza media and red fescue Festuca rubra with occasional yellow oat grass Trisetum flavescens. cowslip Primula veris, betony Betonica…

Clints Quarry, Moota

…ton. The site is of interest for the large population of the great crested newt Triturus cristatus. The site is in two parts, based on those two of the three former quarries which contains standing water. There are three ponds on the site, one in the lower quarry and two in the u…

Alderford Common

…ral species of amphibians including a small population of the scarce warty newt Triturus cristatus. An old lime kiln is used by bats both as a winter hibernating site and as a daytime roost during the summer months.

Castor Hanglands

…at diversity and hold a good aquatic fauna including a population of warty newt Triturus cristatus. The whole area is of high value for invertebrates and some nationally uncommon species are present.

Sundon Chalk Quarry

…o support breeding colonies of amphibians. These include the great crested newt Triturus cristatus, a protected species, as well as smooth newts Lissotriton vulgaris and common frogs Rana temporaria. A substantial population of the Chiltern gentian Gentianella germanica, a natio…

Clough Woods

… is a large herd of unusually dark coloured fallow deer and great crested newts Triturus cristatus occur in one pond. The invertebrate fauna is well documented and of very considerable interest in relation to equally well documented sites elsewhere. Some 260 species of moths and …

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