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Site description (2000 baseline)
Estuarine bays lying 10 km north-east of the town of Akranes, with small offshore islands, beaches and intertidal flats. Eider husbandry (Somateria mollissima) is practised (`Other' land-use).

Key biodiversity
There are also notable numbers of staging Haematopus ostralegus (1,000-2,000), Pluvialis apricaria (a few thousand), Calidris alpina and Charadrius hiaticula.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Grunnafjordur (Iceland). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/grunnafjordur-iba-iceland on 23/11/2024.