The dolichopodid flies of North Cave Wetlands, a former sand and gravel quarry

摘要

Since the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust acquired North Cave Wetlands in 2000 a huge amount of landscaping and habitat creation has been undertaken with the principle objective of attracting birds and making them accessible to the general public as well asthe serious bird-watcher. That this work has been hugely successful is readily apparent, with regular breeding birds including Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis and Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus, Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus, Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius, significant numbers of Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus and both Sedge Warblers Acrocephalus schoenobaenus and Reed Warblers A. scirpaceus.