Nature reserves in ScotlandScotland

Deep gorge crossed by suspension bridge.

Highland

Britain's largest loch, island-strewn.

4.3 km² · Stirling

Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve on the Solway merse, famous for wintering barnacle geese and whooper swans.

Dumfries and Galloway

Scottish Wildlife Trust visitor centre overlooking a tidal basin thronged with geese and waders.

Angus

Large North Lanarkshire park around a man-made loch with watersports, a Roman bathhouse and Scotland's biggest theme park.

North Lanarkshire

Dramatic seabird cliffs on the Berwickshire coast.

0.78 km² · Scottish Borders

RSPB reserve near Gardenstown, mainland Scotland's only gannet colony, alive with seabirds in summer.

Aberdeenshire

Sea loch under ancient sandstone giants.

51 km² · Highland

Glacial corrie with rare arctic-alpine plants.

1.7 km² · Angus

Britain's first designated local nature reserve, a tidal bay of saltmarsh and dunes rich in wintering geese and wildflowers.

East Lothian

A wooded river-valley park on the Almond near East Calder with riverside walks and a Victorian visitor centre.

West Lothian

Machair and coastal reserve on North Uist's west coast, a stronghold for corncrakes and waders.

Na h-Eileanan Siar

A hill country park above Linlithgow with a loch, deer farm, trout ponds and forest trails in the Bathgate Hills.

West Lothian

Glasgow's highest point at 200m on the city's southern edge, with panoramic views and Commonwealth Games mountain-bike trails.

South Lanarkshire

Large tidal basin near Forres important for wintering wildfowl and waders, with hides and shore paths.

Moray

Reservoir and nature reserve near Alloa, one of Scotland's oldest man-made lochs, with a lochside trail.

Clackmannanshire

Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve near Dunkeld with hides and a visitor centre for breeding ospreys and red squirrels.

Perth and Kinross

Pink-granite seabird cliffs south of Peterhead with sea stacks, caves and arches on a nature-reserve coast.

Aberdeenshire

An RSPB reserve of sheer cliffs crowded with seabirds, topped by the tower of the Kitchener Memorial.

Orkney Islands

Coastal reserve of saltmarsh and shingle on the Beauly Firth in Inverness, good for wading birds and seals.

Highland

Estate country park near Whitecross with woodland, a farm, and walks above the River Avon.

Falkirk

A coastal reserve of maritime heath and cliffs at the north-east tip of the East Mainland, rich in seabirds.

Orkney Islands

An RSPB seabird cliff on the north-west of Westray, thronged with gannets and guillemots below a white lighthouse.

Orkney Islands

Restored estate woodland south of Stirling with walled-garden remains and waymarked walks.

Stirling

A wooded gorge of the River North Esk below Rosslyn Chapel, with the ruins of Roslin Castle and old gunpowder mills.

Midlothian

Reedy hill loch reserve south of Inverness, the UK's key breeding site for the rare Slavonian grebe, with a hide.

Highland

Tidal-flat reserve on the north Black Isle at Jemimaville, with a hide for wintering wildfowl and waders.

Highland

Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve of red-sandstone cliffs, caves, stacks and blowholes north of Arbroath.

Angus

Wild sea-cliff peninsula and RSPB reserve on south Islay, crowned by the American Monument to WWI shipwrecks.

Argyll and Bute

A Victorian estate park near Gorebridge with woodland trails, a miniature railway, golf course and adventure play.

Midlothian

Pale-capped Torridon massif and reserve.

49 km² · Highland