Stone curlew
Stone curlews are unusual waders with large yellow eyes - perfect for hunting beetles at night.
Stone curlews are unusual waders with large yellow eyes - perfect for hunting beetles at night.
The stone loach is notoriously hard to spot - not only is it mostly nocturnal, it is also well camouflaged and can partially bury itself in the riverbed. It uses its whisker-like barbels to find…
Learn a tradition with its roots in the Iron Age and build your own mini dry stone wall to attract wildlife.
Dorset's beavers have really got to work on making themselves at home and, using trail cameras, we are able to share wonderful footage of the beavers hard at work constructing dams to create…
Beavers have been back in Dorset for over a year and we are learning about their habits now that they have experienced a full cycle of Dorset's seasons. Steve Oliver reports on what they…
Wader numbers have peaked, work on the Countryside Stewardship scheme continues and signs of spring are appearing across the island. Poole Harbour Reserves Officer, Luke Johns gives an update on…
Today is International Beaver Day, a day to celebrate these fantastic ecosystem engineers. In the latest Beaver Blog we will be taking a look at how the beavers anatomy is perfectly designed for…
On 8 February 2021, a pair of adult beavers were released into an enclosed site in West Dorset as part of a scientific study looking at the impacts that beavers have on their environment. Project…
As winter approaches, find out how the beavers at the Dorset Beaver Project site are preparing for the cold months ahead.
Beavers have successfully bred in Dorset for the first time in over 400 years. Trail cameras inside our enclosed site have captured images of a young beaver, known as a kit and its mother,…
As we experience increasingly dry summers, droughts are likely to become a regular occurrence in the UK. Beavers could be the solution to combatting future water shortages, benefitting both humans…