Zoo
Welsh Hawking Centre
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, United Kingdom 4 spp. present
The Welsh Hawking Centre and Children's Animal Park is a hawking centre on Weycock Road on the northwestern outskirts of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, in southern Wales. It contains the largest collection of birds of prey in Wales, with over 200 birds on site including eagles, owls, hawks, falcons and buzzards. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
51.415° N 3.308° W
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Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
Medium
Species present
4
speciesOpened
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Size
Small
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
Before you go
Where is Welsh Hawking Centre?
United Kingdom
Welsh Hawking Centre is a zoo or wildlife park in the United Kingdom. Its coordinates are 51.415° N, 3.308° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Snowdonia National Park, about 164 km away.
What animals can you see at Welsh Hawking Centre?
4 species
Citizen-science photos record 4 species at Welsh Hawking Centre, including Harris' Hawk, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Indian Star Tortoise and Common Kestrel. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Welsh Hawking Centre in the wild?
Harris' Hawk: El Palmar National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Welsh Hawking Centre also live in the parks and cities we cover: Harris' Hawk (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in El Palmar National Park), Eurasian Eagle-Owl (about 10% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Monfragüe National Park) and Indian Star Tortoise (about 60% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Wilpattu National Park).
When did Welsh Hawking Centre open and how big is it?
0.1 ha
Welsh Hawking Centre, a zoo or wildlife park in the United Kingdom, covers about 0.1 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 4 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)