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Site description (2007 baseline):

Loch Assynt is the largest of the nutrient-poor lochs in the north-west Highlands surrounded by broadleaved Betula and Sorbus forest on higher ground with blanket and valley mires, wet heath and acid fen vegetation lower down.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Assynt Lochs (United Kingdom). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/assynt-lochs-iba-united-kingdom on 23/11/2024.