III. Species Action Plans - Newcastle City Council

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16. Urban Birds Links to Other Plans Potential Target Delivery Feature Site Local Authority Area Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Creation & Management Habitat Action Plans Buildings & Structures Native Woodland Brownfield Land Managed Urban Greenspace Scrub, Shrub & Hedgerow Open Water & Wetland Rivers & Watercourses Lowland Grassland Newcastle & North Tyneside Biodiversity Action Plan Shiremoor/Backworth Silverlink Park Rising Sun Country Park Northumberland Park Wallsend Parks St Mary’s Island Brierdene Holywell Dene Weetslade Colliery Newcastle Great Park Leazes Park Exhibition Park Jesmond Dene Newcastle Allotments, cemeteries and schools 66 North Tyneside North Tyneside North Tyneside North Tyneside North Tyneside North Tyneside North Tyneside North Tyneside North Tyneside Newcastle Newcastle Newcastle Newcastle Newcastle & North Tyneside
16. Urban Birds 17. Water Vole 17. WATER VOLE (Arvicola terrestris) General Description The water vole is Britain’s largest vole and is distinguished from the brown rat by its dark fur, round body, short tail, less obvious ears and a short, blunt head with small eyes. Water voles will inhabit still or flowing water but need plenty of submerged and marginal vegetation (especially reeds, sedges and grasses) for shelter and food, with suitable banks for burrowing. Above ground, their activity is largely confined to runs in dense vegetation radiating from and along the water’s edge. Water voles are herbivorous, primarily feeding on the lush aerial stems and leaves of waterside plants and typically select sites with a high layering of grasses and herbaceous plants. They live in extended colonies, strung out along a watercourse through a series of contiguous territories, 67 which range from 30-150m for females and 60-300m for males. The breeding season lasts from March to October, and the females’ territories are separate lengths of bankside, more than one of which may be overlapped by the larger territories of the males. Current Status Water voles are found within suitable riparian habitat throughout mainland Britain. This species was once common and widespread but has suffered significant decline in numbers and distribution. The most recent population estimates have shown a 95% reduction in the population making it the UK’s fastest declining mammal. The species occurs in small populations in a limited number of sites in Newcastle and North Tyneside. These include small sections of the Ouseburn and the Wallsend Burn and ponds and water- 17. Water Vole Newcastle & North Tyneside Biodiversity Action Plan
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Newcastle & North Tyneside Biodiver
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Contents Contents I. ACKNOWLEDGEMEN
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1. Buildings & Structures III. Habi
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1. Buildings & Structures BUILDINGS
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2. Estuary & Coastal Habitat and lu
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2. Estuary & Coastal Habitat Alien
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2. Estuary & Coastal Habitat Links
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3. Brownfield Land Weetslade Collie
Page 18 and 19: 4. Transport Corridors 4. TRANSPORT
Page 20 and 21: 4. Transport Corridors Links to Oth
Page 22 and 23: 5. Open Water & Wetland with associ
Page 24 and 25: 5. Open Water & Wetland OPEN WATER
Page 26 and 27: 6. Rivers & Watercourses 6. RIVERS
Page 28 and 29: 6. Rivers & Watercourses RIVER & WA
Page 30 and 31: 7. Managed Urban Greenspace 7. MANA
Page 32 and 33: 7. Managed Urban Greenspace MANAGED
Page 34 and 35: 8. Native Woodland 8. NATIVE WOODLA
Page 36 and 37: 8. Native Woodland Issues of Concer
Page 38 and 39: 9. Lowland Grassland 9. LOWLAND GRA
Page 40 and 41: 9. Lowland Grassland Links to Other
Page 42 and 43: 10. Scrub, Shrub & Hedgerow Hedgero
Page 44 and 45: 10. Scrub, Shrub & Hedgerow Potenti
Page 46 and 47: 11. Farmland Birds Yellowhammer (Em
Page 48 and 49: 11. Farmland Birds FARMLAND BIRD TA
Page 50 and 51: 12. Bats 12. BATS General Descripti
Page 52 and 53: 12. Bats Protection/Legislation All
Page 54 and 55: 13. Amphibians 13. AMPHIBIANS Gener
Page 56 and 57: 13. Amphibians Loss of suitable bre
Page 58 and 59: 14. Dingy Skipper 14. Dingy Skipper
Page 60 and 61: 14. Dingy Skipper Potential Target
Page 62 and 63: 15. Otter Incidental mortality caus
Page 64 and 65: 16. Urban Birds 16. URBAN BIRDS Gen
Page 66 and 67: 16. Urban Birds Protection/Legislat
Page 70 and 71: 17. Water Vole courses in and aroun
Page 72 and 73: 18. Red Squirrel 18. RED SQUIRREL (
Page 74 and 75: 18. Red Squirrel Links to Other Pla
Page 76 and 77: 19. Hedgehog Lighting of bonfires w
Page 78 and 79: 20. Slow Worm SLOW WORM Determine t
Page 80 and 81: 21. Bumblebee Protection/Legislatio
Page 82 and 83: 22. Brown Hare 22. BROWN HARE (Lepu
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