Wildlife of the Avon Gorge, the Downs and Leigh Woods
Click on or tap the icons on the map below to discover the wonderful wildlife that can be found here. Or why not listen to an interview with one of our resident animals in Voices of the Wild?!
In this section you can get a more in-depth guide to some of the wildlife that you can find on the Bristol side of the Avon Gorge and the Downs.
In this section you can find out more about the wildlife living in Leigh Woods.
Voices of the Wild
Voices of the Wild is a collection of short interviews with animals, offering them a chance to give us a perspective on their environment. If you really want to know what some of our local residents have to tell us about life in the wild, listen to them here:
The peregrine falcon
With Ed Drewitt, Naturalist, Broadcaster, Wildlife Detective
© Voices of the Wild Ltd
The greater horseshoe bat
With David Brown, Bat Specialist, Avon Bat Group
© Voices of the Wild Ltd
The purse web spider
With Mark Pajak, Spider Expert, Bristol Museum and Art Galleries
© Voices of the Wild Ltd
The hazel dormouse
With Gill Brown, Dormouse Specialist Surveyor, Bristol Naturalists’ Society
© Voices of the Wild Ltd
The holly blue butterfly
With Ray Barnett, Head of Collections and Archives, Bristol Museum and Art Galleries
© Voices of the Wild Ltd
The buzzard
With Ian McGuire, Wildlife Educator and Owl Specialist
© Voices of the Wild Ltd
To hear some more interviews from further afield visit Voices of the Wild.
Photographs: Avon Gorge (© Phil Jearey), Observatory whitebeam (© Libby Houston), Bluebells (© Forestry England).