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Site description (2007 baseline):

A complex of habitats, extending over 10 km south from Exeter to the open sea at Dawlish Warren. Broad intertidal flats and grazing-marshes are the dominant habitats. Extensive mussel, eel-grass Zostera and algal beds and a sand-spit further increase the habitat diversity. The site is important for wintering and passage wildfowl and waders, and for breeding Cettia cetti.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2025) Important Bird Area factsheet: Exe Estuary (United Kingdom). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/exe-estuary-iba-united-kingdom on 24/01/2025.