Your local charity working for Record your Wildlife Sightings! wildlife and people Collecting biological records can provide us with important information about species and habitat distribution and abundance within the Cotswold Water Park. This information is made available to local planning authorities and conservation organisations and can help them to make decisions about future management. By submitting your sightings you can help to safeguard your local wildlife! So if you are spending time out and about in the Cotswold Water Park we would like to hear CotswoldCotswold WaterWater ParkPark about what you have seen! You can use the form below to record your data. Please include the species (common name is fine) and the location (such as lake number, reserve name or 6 figure SpeciesSpecies CheckCheck ListList grid reference if known). The completed form can then be posted to us at: Cotswold Water Park Trust, Manor Farm, Down Ampney, Cirencester, GL7 5QF We look forward to hearing from you soon! Species Location Date Comments Name:............................................................................................................................................ E-mail:........................................................................................................................................... Telephone:...................................................................................................................................... www.waterpark.org 01793 752730 Rachel Budworth Version Number: 03 December 2012 [email protected] CotswoldMammals Water Park Butterflies Common Name Latin Name Common Name Latin Name CWP Facts Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineolus Marbled White Melanargia galathea The unique landscape of the CWP has been created by sand and gravel extraction which Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina has taken place since the 1950’s. Aphantopus Large Skipper Ochlodes venatus Ringlet The CWP : hyperantus Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus malvae Coenonympha Small Heath Covers 40 square miles pamphilus Contains over 151 lakes Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages Has 100km of rivers and streams, Clouded Yellow Colias croceus including the River Thames Is home to more than 20,000 Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni residents Large White Pieris brassicae Cotswold Water Park Trust Small White Artogeia rapae The Trust is an environmental charity, working in partnership with local authorities, parish councils, landowners, mineral companies, Green-veined White Artogeia napi environmental organisations and businesses to achieve a careful balance between development, recreation and nature conservation. The Trust's Orange Tip Anthochais cardamines main objective is to provide public facilities for education, conservation, recreation and leisure in the Cotswold Water Park. You can find out more Brown Hairstreak Thecla betulae about the work that we do and become a member from just £15 a year at Peacock www.waterpark.org Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas Wildlife Brown Argus Aricia agestis The wetlands of the Cotswold Water Park creates a biodiversity hotspot, with a range Common Blue Polyommatus icarus of wildlife to be sighted all year round! Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus The lakes and wetlands provide a nationally important habitat for many species of breeding and wintering water birds, which can be observed from bird hides. Painted Lady Vanessa cardui The area contains several streams and rivers running into the River Thames which Comma Polygonia c-album support populations of both otter and water vole. It is also home to a regionally important dragonfly population, 10 SSSI lakes and 6 SSSI Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae wildflower meadows! Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta This booklet identifies the many species of mammals, birds, dragonflies and butterflies that are present in the Cotswold Water Park at various times of the Peacock Inachis io year. You can use it as a reference guide to the wildlife of the area, or to record Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria what you spot while you’re out and about. If you have seen a species that hasn’t been included then we’d love to hear from you! Marsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurinia To check out recent sightings visit: www.waterpark.org/trust/birdwatching.html and follow Wall Lasiommata megera the link to the CWP birding blog. Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus Red Admiral Mammals Dragonflies and Damselflies Common Name Latin Name Common Name Latin Name Common Name Latin Name Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus Greater horseshoe Rhinolophus Beautiful Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo bat ferrumequinum Mole Talpa europaea Rhinolophus Banded Demoiselle Calopteryx splendens Lesser horseshoe bat Common shrew Sorex araneus hipposideros Emerald Damselfly Lestes sponsa Pygmy shrew Sorex minutus Bechstein's bat Myotis bechsteinii Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Water shrew Neomys fodiens Brandt's bat Myotis brandtii Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus Daubenton's bat Myotis daubentonii Whiskered bat Myotis mystacinus Common Blue Brown hare Lepus europaeus Enallagma cyathigerum Natterer's bat Myotis nattereri Damselfly Grey squirrel Sciurus carolinensis Serotine Eptesicus serotinus Scarce Blue-tailed Bank vole Myodes glareolus Ischnura pumilio Noctule Nyctalus noctula Damselfly Field vole Microtus agrestis Pipistrellus Common pipistrelle Blue-tailed damselfly Ischnura elegans Water vole Arvicola terrestris pipistrellus Pipistrellus Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma najas Harvest mouse Micromys minutus Soprano pipistrelle pygmaeus White-legged House mouse Mus domesticus Nathusius' pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii Platycnemis pennipes Four-spotted Chaser Damselfly Wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus Barbastella Barbastelle Yellow-necked mouse Apodemus flavicollis barbastellus Hairy Dragonfly Brachytron pratense Brown long-eared bat Plecotus auritus Brown / Common rat Rattus norvegicus Migrant Hawker Aeshna mixta Southern Hawker Aeshna cyanea Eurasian beaver Castor fiber Brown Hawker Aeshna grandis Hazel dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius Emperor Anax imperator Fox Vulpes vulpes Badger Meles meles Lesser Emperor Anax parthenope Otter Lutra lutra Downy Emerald Cordulia aenea Polecat Mustela putorius Four-spotted Chaser Libellula quadrimaculata Stoat Mustela erminea Broad-bodied Chaser Libellula depressa Weasel Mustela nivalis Ferret Mustela furo Black-tailed Skimmer Orthetrum cancellatum Mink Neovison vison Keeled Skimmer Orthetrum coerulescens Fallow deer Dama dama Common Darter Sympetrum striolatum Roe deer Capreolus capreolus Ruddy Darter Sympetrum sanguineum Common Blue Damselfly Muntjac Muntiacus reevesi Lesser Horseshoe Bat E VR R Birds = Escape = Very Rare = Rare Birds Black-throated Diver VR American Wigeon VR Coot Yellow-legged Gull Sand Martin Pied Flycatcher VR Red-throated DiverR Wigeon Common Crane VR Lesser Black-backed Gull Swallow Great Tit Great Northern DiverR Gadwall Oystercatcher Caspian Gull VR House Martin Coal Tit R Little Grebe Teal Avocet VR Great Black-backed Gull R Tawny Pipit VR Blue Tit Great Crested Grebe Green-winged Teal VR Black-winged Stilt VR Little Gull R Meadow Pipit Willow Tit R Red-necked Grebe R Blue-winged Teal VR Stone-curlew VR Glaucous Gull VR Water Pipit VR Marsh Tit Pied Billed Grebe VR Mallard Collared Pranticole VR Iceland Gull R Tree Pipit VR Long-tailed Tit Slavonian Grebe R Pintail Little Ringed Plover Laughing Gull VR Rock Pipit R Bearded Tit R Black-necked Grebe R Garganey R Ringed Plover Sabine’s Gull VR Yellow Wagtail Penduline Tit VR Fulmar VR Shoveler Kentish Plover VR Ring-billed Gull VR Grey Wagtail Nuthatch R Manx Shearwater VR Red-crested Pochard Golden Plover Kumlien’s Gull VR Pied/White Wagtail Treecreeper Leach’s Petrel VR Pochard Grey Plover R Kittiwake R Dipper R Red-backed Shrike VR Gannet VR Tufted Duck Lapwing Caspian Tern VR Wren Great Grey Shrike R Cormorant Ferruginous Duck VR Knot R Little Tern R Waxwing VR Isabelline Shrike VR Shag R Ring-necked Duck VR Sanderling R Gull-billed Tern VR Dunnock Golden Oriole VR Bittern R Greater Scaup R Curlew Sandpiper R Sandwich Tern R Nightingale Magpie Night Heron VR Lesser Scaup VR Dunlin Roseate Turn VR Robin Jay Cattle Egret VR Velvet Scoter VR Little Stint R Common Tern Black Redstart VR Jackdaw Squacco Heron VR Common Scoter VR Temminck’s Stint R Arctic Tern R Redstart VR Rook Little Egret Long-tailed Duck VR White-rumped Sandpiper VR Black Tern R Wheatear R Carrion Crow Great White Egret R Goldeneye Pectoral Sandpiper VR Whiskered Tern R Stonechat R Raven Grey Heron Smew Turnstone R White-winged Black Tern VR Whinchat R Starling Purple Heron VR Goosander Buff-breasted Sandpiper VR Little Auk VR Song Thrush House Sparrow Glossy Ibis VR Red-breasted Merganser R Common Sandpiper Stock Dove Redwing Tree Sparrow VR Chilean Flamingo E Ruddy Duck Green Sandpiper Wood-pigeon Mistle Thrush Chaffinch Greater Flamingo E Osprey R Wood Sandpiper R Collared Dove Blackbird Brambling R White Stork VR Red Kite Spotted Redshank R Turtle Dove R Fieldfare Greenfinch Spoonbill VR Hen Harrier R Redshank Cuckoo Ring Ouzel VR Goldfinch Bewick's Swan R Marsh Harrier R Greenshank Rose-ringed Parakeet E Garden Warbler Siskin Mute Swan Buzzard Lesser Yellowlegs VR Barn Owl Blackcap Twite VR Whooper Swan R Honey Buzzard VR Black-tailed Godwit Little Owl Lesser Whitethroat Common Redpoll R Tundra Bean Goose R Sparrowhawk Bar-tailed Godwit R Tawny Owl Whitethroat Lesser Redpoll White-fronted Goose R Goshawk R Curlew Long-eared Owl R Sedge Warbler Crossbill VR Pink-footed Goose R