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Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre

 
Description: Slimbridge, Glostershire, GL2 7BT. Telephone enquiries: (+44) 01453 890333. Fax: (+44) 01453 890827 e-mail: slimbridg ... more
Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre ... slimbridge@wwt.org.uk.
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) promotes the conservation of wetlands focusing on rare wetland birds.

Newest Review: ... with human visitors is a simple enough matter: you can buy paper bags of waterfowl food at the reserve visitor centres - most people who visit do - and the ducks & geese etc. are used to being regularly fed. What goes in has to come out and yes, the paths of WWT reserves are generally awash in bird excrement. We are not talking about discreet little dabs of inoffensive ... more

 ... black-and-white-stuff, unfortunately; most waterfowl are plant-eaters; combine this with the high-fibre grain diet they're all on at the WWT and the end result is they generate surprisingly large piles of semi-digested waste. Given the high bird stocking densities at W...more

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Premium Review Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre: Hob-nob with too many exotic waterfowl in semi-industrial co ... (1047 words)
by - written on 20/08/09 (Very useful, 82 readings)
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Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre is run by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, the charitable bird / nature conservation charity set up by Sir Peter Scott in the late 1940s. Slimbridge in Gloucestershire is the Trust's original / flagship reserve, though there are at the time of writing, eight other WWT reserves up and down the country (excluding Scotland). In addition to Slimbridge other WWT reserves I have been to myself are The London Wetlands centre (in London) and Martin Mere in Lancashire, and bearing in mind that I have personally visited only a relatively small sample of WWT sites, I would say that they all seem to be largely alike. What they ...  Read the complete review

kingfisher111
Crowned Review Wetlands, waders and wellies! (1386 words)
by - written on 20/08/09 (Very useful, 185 readings)
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We had been spending a few days in Devon and decided to extend our trip by visiting the wonderful Wetlands centre at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire on our way home. This is a great place to visit if you are interested in birds or wildlife in general. It is one of a number of centres up and down the country that belongs to the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT). We were travelling up the M5 from Devon and left the motorway at junction 14. It was then very easy to follow the brown duck signs to Slimbridge which was a further ten miles. You can also leave the motorway at junction 13 if you are travelling south. When you arrive there is a large car park ...  Read the complete review

MaryanneH
Crowned Review Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Centre: Water, Water everywhere (2154 words)
by - written on 10/04/06 (Very useful, 1124 readings)
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Spring has officially arrived, the Kingfisher are back perching on their favourite branch and the hoards of twitchers are queuing up, telescopes, binoculars and very long lens cameras in hand. Living in Gloucestershire not far from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre at Slimbridge I have been a member of the Wildfowl and Wetlands trust (WWT) on and off for a good many years. The WWT is primarily a charity, started in 1946 by Sir Peter Scott, the son of the arctic explorer. Slimbridge was the first of the 9 visitors centres set up by the WWT and is the headquarters of the trust. Sir Peter Scott chose Slimbridge because it lies on the banks of the ...  Read the complete review

karenuk
Premium Review There's A Dead Man In The Field... (739 words)
by - written on 28/06/01 (Very useful, 136 readings)
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I went on a school trip on Monday. No, this is not a revelation declaring I am only twelve after all. I went as a parent helper. Unfortunately, it was 31 degrees Celsius that day and I didn’t have enough drinks with me, so that might have clouded my experiences somewhat, but I will try to give a fair assessment of the place we visited. The trip was to Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre. This is situated in the beautiful little village of Slimbridge, between Bristol and Gloucester. There are nine such centres across Britain, the others being at Martin Mere (Lancashire), Arundel (West Sussex), Washington (Tyne and Wear), Caerlaverock ...  Read the complete review

 

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