Arne RSPB reserve is a 500 hectare (1250 acre) nature reserve, run by the RSPB, overlooking Poole Harbour and adjacent to the village of Arne, in Dorset, England.
The reserve opened in 1966 and is chiefly lowland heath, noted for the rare heather known as Dorset Heath (Erica ciliaris), and for its breeding Dartford Warblers. It also has acid grassland, salt marsh and woodland, with reedbeds adjoining the mudflats of the harbour. Other important species include Nightjar, Woodlark and, on the mudflats, Spoonbill.
Over 500 species of vascular plant have been recorded on the reserve, since 1966.
The reserve has a herd of around 100 sika deer.
Famous quotes containing the word reserve:
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)