Data Zone
Country/territory: United Kingdom
IBA Criteria met: A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, C2, C3, C4, C6 (2007)
For more information about IBA criteria please click here
Area: 6,892 ha
Protection status:
| Most recent IBA monitoring assessment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment | Threat score (pressure) | Condition score (state) | Action score (response) |
| 2007 | low | very unfavourable | medium |
| For more information about IBA monitoring please click here | |||
Site description
This site includes the Inner Tay, with some of the largest reedbeds (Phragmites) in Britain, and the extensive intertidal mudflats on one side of the mouth of the river. The IBA is important for wintering and passage wildfowl and waders, and supports several breeding reedbed species.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2021) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary. Downloaded from
http://www.birdlife.org on 18/04/2021.
