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North Yorkshire Moors Wildlife
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Blackbird Chick

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Golden Plover

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Yorkshire Chaffinch

Area: North York Moors
Region: North Yorkshire Moors
County: Yorkshire
Activities:
Bird Watching


Details: The North Yorkshire Moors is made up of a great variety of landscapes; this means that there is a wide diversity of flora and fauna living in different habitats. The moor land areas of the North York Moors are dominated by heather and bracken often covers the moor edges. The moor land is recognised internationally as an important breeding ground for our smallest raptor the merlin. Other species common to the moor land areas are ring ouzel, lapwing, red grouse, golden plover, curlew and adder.

The shorelines are the richest areas for wildlife. Here there is a huge variety of plant and animal life, the numbers of each species here is staggering. On one square metre of rock there could be up to 30,000 barnacles alone! Grasslands in the North Yorkshire Moors support a range of butterflies, birds and wild flowers.Water vole and otters live on the rivers throughout the North York Moors National Park and there are numerous species of invertebrates that inhabit the rivers which the thriving bird and fish life feed on.


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