- Mottisfont Bats SSSI
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Mottisfont Bats SSSI (grid reference SU314281) is a 230.98 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire, notified in 2003. It is also a Special Area of Conservation.
Biological interest
The site consists of woods around Mottisfont, which supports a population of the Barbastelle bat which is considered by Natural England to be of nationally importance. The site is used by the Barbastelles for breeding, roosting, commuting and feeding. It is the only known maternity roost in Hampshire and one of only six known sites in the United Kingdom as of 2002.
Mottisfont contains a mix of woodland types including hazel coppice with standards, broadleaved plantation and coniferous plantation.
Eight other bat species have been recorded at Mottisfont: Whiskered, Brown long-eared, Common and Pygmy Pipistrelles, Serotine, Noctule, Daubenton's and Natterer's.
External links
- Natural England website (SSSI information)
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire Basingstoke Canal · Beacon Hill, Warnford · Blackwater Valley · Boulsbury Wood · Bourley and Long Valley · Burghclere Beacon · Butser Hill · Catherington Down · Cheesefoot Head · Chichester Harbour · Dibden Bay · Ebblake Bog · Fleet Pond · Foxlease And Ancells Meadows · Galley Down Wood · Greywell Tunnel · Hurst Castle And Lymington River Estuary · Itchen Navigation · Ladle Hill · Langstone Harbour · Lymington River · Lymington River Reedbeds · Mottisfont Bats · New Forest · Noar Hill · Old Winchester Hill · Pamber Forest and Silchester Common · Portsmouth Harbour · River Avon System · River Itchen · River Test · Selborne Common · Southampton Common · Sowley Pond · St. Catherine's Hill · Trodds Copse · Woolmer Forest
Neighbouring areas: Berkshire · Dorset · Isle of Wight · Surrey · West Sussex · Wiltshire
Categories:- United Kingdom Site of Special Scientific Interest stubs
- Hampshire geography stubs
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 2003
- Woodland Sites of Special Scientific Interest
- Special Areas of Conservation in England
- Bat roosts in England
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