Fen Management Handbook - Scottish Natural Heritage
Fen Management Handbook - Scottish Natural Heritage
Fen Management Handbook - Scottish Natural Heritage
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280<br />
Bittern Botaurus<br />
stellaris<br />
All year<br />
Greater<br />
numbers in the<br />
non-breeding<br />
season Sep<br />
- Mar<br />
Ann 1;<br />
Sch 1;<br />
Sch1(NI);<br />
UKBAP<br />
Reedbeds and mixed fen swamp<br />
Favours wetland areas or fringes overgrown<br />
with tall emergent vegetation, especially reed,<br />
giving dense cover close to shallow standing<br />
open waters, including small pools and<br />
channels. For breeding needs extensive (the<br />
majority of birds use reedbeds >20 hectares)<br />
undisturbed wet reedbed, with good fish<br />
populations.<br />
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea All year Sch1(NI) Vegetated margins of open water bodies<br />
Prefers shallow standing or flowing waters,<br />
with good fish or amphibian populations.<br />
Nests in tall trees.<br />
Little Egret Egretta<br />
garzetta<br />
Hen Harrier Circus<br />
cyaneus<br />
Marsh<br />
Harrier<br />
Circus<br />
aeruginosus<br />
Water Rail Rallus<br />
aquaticus<br />
Spotted<br />
Crake<br />
Porzana<br />
porzana<br />
Moorhen Gallinula<br />
chloropus<br />
Common<br />
Crane<br />
All year Ann 1 Vegetated margins of open water bodies<br />
Prefers shallow standing waters, with good<br />
fish or amphibian populations. Nests in trees.<br />
Oct-Mar Ann 1; Sch<br />
1; Sch1(NI)<br />
All year<br />
Greater<br />
numbers in<br />
breeding<br />
season Mar-<br />
Aug<br />
Ann 1; Sch<br />
1; Sch1(NI)<br />
Reedbeds and mixed fen swamp<br />
Roosts communally outside the breeding<br />
season, in rank ground vegetation in fen,<br />
marsh and reedbed areas. Outside the<br />
breeding season they forage over fen, marsh<br />
and flooded grassland<br />
Reedbeds and mixed fen swamp<br />
Roosts communally outside the breeding<br />
season, in rank ground vegetation in fen,<br />
marsh and reedbed areas. In both summer<br />
and winter, the species forages over<br />
reedbeds, fen, marsh and flooded grassland.<br />
Nests are normally in reedbeds, in other<br />
wetlands with tall emergent vegetation and<br />
few or no trees. The reedbeds or wetlands<br />
can be extensive, or small (less than 1 ha in<br />
size).<br />
All year Reedbeds and mixed fen swamp<br />
Favours a composite of fresh water, flat,<br />
usually muddy ground, and dense, fairly tall<br />
aquatic vegetation. The mosaic of habitat is<br />
further enhanced by the close proximity of<br />
trees such as willow or other fringing scrub,<br />
and of drier patches.<br />
Apr-Oct Ann 1; Sch<br />
1<br />
Reedbeds and mixed fen swamp<br />
Usually found in fairly extensive wetlands,<br />
including floodlands, with very shallow fresh<br />
water, not oligotrophic, interspersed with<br />
ample stands of low plant cover.<br />
All year Vegetated margins of open water bodies<br />
Prefers waters sheltered by woodland or tall<br />
emergent plants, and most with small open<br />
waterbodies<br />
Grus grus All year Ann 1 Reedbeds and mixed fen swamp<br />
Breeds in open, swamp areas, where the<br />
adults have a good all round view, within a<br />
reed and fen mosaic. Outside the breeding<br />
season also uses floodplain wetlands and<br />
agricultural land.