Wraysbury and Hythe End Gravel Pits facts for kids
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
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| Area of Search | Berkshire |
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| Interest | Biological |
| Area | 117.2 hectares (290 acres) |
| Notification | 1992 |
| Location map | Magic Map |
Wraysbury and Hythe End Gravel Pits is a 117.2-hectare (290-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wraysbury in Berkshire. It is part of South West London Waterbodies Ramsar site and Special Protection Area.
The site features four former gravel pits and is within the floodplains of the River Thames and the Colne Brook. It is important for the number of bird species it features.
Fauna
The Park has the following animals</ref>
Birds
- Tufted duck
- Gadwall
- Common merganser
- Diving duck
- Common goldeneye
- Smew
- Common pochard
- Wigeon
- Mandarin duck
- Shelduck
- Common kingfisher
- Grass warbler
- reed warbler
- Common redshank
- coot
- Heron
- Little egret
- Common buzzard
- Water Rail
- Ring-necked Parakeet
- Grey Wagtail
- Reed Bunting
- Swift
- Common chiffchaff
- Garganey
- Hobby
- Streptopelia
- Common nightingale
- Wheatear
- Whinchat
- Horned grebe
- Red-necked grebe
- Black-necked grebe
- Long-tailed duck
- Red-breasted merganser
- Common sandpiper
- Green sandpiper
- Little ringed plover
- Common ringed plover
- Snipe
- Jack snipe
- Lesser redpoll
- Lesser scaup
- Ortolan bunting
Invertebrates
- Platycnemis pennipes
- Oulimnius major
- Leptocerus lusitanius
Flora
The site has the following Flora:
Trees
- Rhamnus catharticus
- Salix fragilis
Plants
- Phragmites australis
- Carex acutiformis
- Carex riparia
- Potamogeton pusillus
- Typha latifolia
- Bidens tripartita
- Zannichellia palustris
- Lathyrus nissolia
- Carex spicata
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