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A seasonal guide to what it's like being a water vole in Britain. Water Vole Habitat and Management Information and advice for homeowners, landowners and land managers.
- ABOUT
The water vole was once common in our streams, brooks,...
- CONSERVATION
Prof Alastair Driver: Former Chair of the UK Water Vole...
- SPOTTING
So here are some tips to increase your chances of seeing...
- BLOG
A Clarion Call from Water Vole Kin for New Homes in Caring...
- CONTRIBUTORS
He set up the multi-organisation UK Water Vole Steering...
- HISTORY
In the early 1900’s, a water vole sighting was an...
- The Water Vole Year
“Bless you and your starry little feet.” Kate Long...
- Field Signs and Surveys
Field vole, bank vole and woodmouse burrows are much smaller...
- ABOUT
The National Water Vole Database and Mapping Project is the only project of its kind in the UK. By bringing together and mapping water vole and mink data, we can inform conservation efforts to give ratty the best possible chance.
Water voles are listed as endangered on both the Great Britain and the England Red List for Mammals. The water vole lives along rivers, streams and ditches, around ponds and lakes, and in marshes, reedbeds and areas of wet moorland.
The water vole is a much-loved British mammal, known by many as ‘Ratty’ in the children’s classic The Wind in the Willows. Unfortunately, the future of this charming riverside creature is in peril; the water vole needs urgent help to survive in the UK.
Ideal water vole habitat with a 3m uncut margin, including emergent vegetation. It is easy to provide a home for water voles, so that populations can thrive or expand and move into your waterway, pond or lake.
Once a common sight along the banks of Britain's rivers and lakes, water voles are now among our most endangered species. The National Trust is helping to protect them with land management programmes and projects to reintroduce them to the places where they once thrived.
Field vole, bank vole and woodmouse burrows are much smaller at only 2 – 3cms across. Breeding female water vole burrow with grazed lawn at water’s edge. Surveys. You can help water voles by surveying annually to find out where they are present or absent to detect any changes in their populations and distribution.
