Animals in Wales: What You Can Spot, Learn, and Collect
Welsh wildlife: Skomer puffins and Manx shearwaters, Grassholm gannets, Ramsey grey seals, Cardigan Bay dolphins, Gigrin Farm red kites, Snowdonia goats and ospreys.
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Wales packs a lot of coast into a small country, and the Pembrokeshire islands are its glory: Skomer's puffins and its 350,000 pairs of Manx shearwaters, Grassholm's 36,000 pairs of gannets, Ramsey's grey seal pups, and bottlenose dolphins and porpoises in Cardigan Bay and Ramsey Sound. Inland, red kites that were down to a few pairs in the 1930s now fill the sky at Gigrin Farm, ospreys nest on the Dyfi and Glaslyn, and Snowdonia has feral goats, ravens and peregrines.
Wales is under-recorded in AnimalDex and over-delivers in person. The Skomer boat from Martin's Haven puts you among puffins that walk across the path, and the Gigrin Farm kite feed at 2 pm brings hundreds of red kites to within a few metres of the hides.
St Davids or Tenby are the Pembrokeshire base for islands and seals, New Quay for the Cardigan Bay dolphins, Rhayader for the kites, and Betws-y-Coed or Llanberis for Snowdonia's goats, ravens and ospreys.
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The red kite is Wales's conservation success story: fewer than ten pairs survived in the mid-Wales valleys in the 1930s, and the UK population is now over 10,000 pairs, all descended in part from those Welsh birds.
Skomer and Skokholm hold roughly half the world's Manx shearwaters, and Britain's first pine marten reintroduction took place in Wales, with animals released in the Cambrian Mountains from 2015.
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Peta satwa liar Wales
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Hewan untuk di-spot
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Atlantic PuffinC
Around 40,000 puffins nest on Skomer, standing on the path at the Wick and flying in with sand eels past your knees.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed on Skomer from late April to mid-July.
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Manx ShearwaterC
Skomer and Skokholm hold about 350,000 pairs, half the world total, returning to their burrows in screaming thousands after dark.
Catatan spotting: Common at sea off Pembrokeshire by day; overnight stays on Skomer for the evening return.
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Northern GannetC
Grassholm, 11 km off Pembrokeshire, is white with 36,000 pairs, the third-largest gannet colony in the world; boats from St Justinians circle it.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed on Grassholm boat trips from June to September.
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Grey SealB
Ramsey Island and the Pembrokeshire coves produce several hundred pups each autumn, visible from the coast path at Martin's Haven and Strumble Head.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed on Ramsey boats; pups ashore September to November.
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DolphinB
Cardigan Bay holds the UK's largest resident bottlenose population; New Quay's harbour wall is one of the best land-based dolphin sites in Europe.
Catatan spotting: Reliable from New Quay harbour and boats, April to October.
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Harbor PorpoiseB
Strumble Head and Ramsey Sound have strong tide races where porpoises feed in dozens; the Strumble lookout is a classic sea-watching spot.
Catatan spotting: Regular at Strumble Head on a running tide.
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Red KiteC
Gigrin Farm at Rhayader has fed kites daily since 1993 and draws up to 600 birds at 2 pm; the whole of mid-Wales now has kites overhead.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed at Gigrin Farm; common across mid-Wales.
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OspreyC
Breeds on the Dyfi near Machynlleth and at Glaslyn near Porthmadog, with visitor centres, hides and nest cameras.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed at the Dyfi Osprey Project from April to August.
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Peregrine FalconB
Nests on the Snowdonia crags, the Pembrokeshire cliffs and Cardiff City Hall's clock tower, hunting pigeons over the city centre.
Catatan spotting: Regular on Pembrokeshire cliffs and in Snowdonia.
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Common RavenC
Snowdonia has one of Britain's densest raven populations; they tumble and croak over every summit and beg at the Snowdon cafe.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed on any Snowdonia summit.
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Domestic GoatD
Feral goats roam the Snowdonia crags around Tryfan and the Rhinogydd, and the Great Orme's Kashmir goats famously wandered into Llandudno during lockdown.
Catatan spotting: Reliable on the Great Orme and around Tryfan.
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Pine MartenC
Reintroduced to the Cambrian Mountains from 2015 after near-extinction in Wales; the Dyfi forest and Rheidol valley are strongholds.
Catatan spotting: Rare to see; camera-trapped more often than watched.
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European OtterD
Wales kept its otters when England lost them, and they fish the Teifi, Wye and Dyfi and the Cardigan Bay shores by day.
Catatan spotting: Uncommon; the Teifi marshes and Cardigan Bay estuaries at dawn.
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Red SquirrelD
Anglesey's grey squirrels were removed and reds reintroduced, so the island's woods now hold Wales's biggest red squirrel population.
Catatan spotting: Reliable in Anglesey's Newborough and Pentraeth woods.
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- Puffins, shearwaters and gannets on the Pembrokeshire islands
- Grey seal pups and dolphins along the Pembrokeshire and Cardigan coasts
- The Gigrin Farm red kite feed and the Dyfi ospreys
- Mountain wildlife and feral goats in Snowdonia
Tips spotting
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- 01Skomer boats from Martin's Haven are first come first served and sell out by 8 am in puffin season; arrive early or book the overnight stay.
- 02Gigrin Farm feeds kites at 2 pm GMT or 3 pm BST every day; the photographic hides are worth the extra fee.
- 03New Quay harbour wall gives dolphins without a boat; a rising tide in the evening is best.
- 04Seal pups are on Pembrokeshire beaches from September to November; watch from the coast path and never go down to them.
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Panduan satwa liar ke Wales
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What wildlife is there in Wales?
Puffins, Manx shearwaters, gannets, choughs and peregrines on the coast; grey seals, bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises at sea; red kites, ospreys, ravens and dippers inland; and otters, pine martens, polecats, red squirrels and feral goats among the mammals.
What animals can be found in Pembrokeshire?
Skomer's puffins and shearwaters, Grassholm's gannets, Ramsey's grey seals, porpoises in Ramsey Sound, choughs and peregrines on the cliffs, and dolphins and the occasional sunfish and basking shark offshore in summer.
Where can you see puffins in Wales?
Skomer Island, reached by boat from Martin's Haven near Marloes, from late April to mid-July. Skokholm and South Stack on Anglesey hold smaller numbers.
Where is the best place to see red kites in Wales?
Gigrin Farm near Rhayader, where several hundred kites come to a daily afternoon feed. Bwlch Nant yr Arian near Aberystwyth runs a similar feed with a lakeside viewing area.
Bagaimana cara menemukan panduan satwa liar ke Wales?
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