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Site description (2007 baseline):
Site location and context
The site covers the Humber estuary, and coastline to the north and south of the Humber mouth. It includes an elongated shingle-spit capped by sand-dunes (Spurn Point), extensive intertidal habitats (especially mudflats), saline lagoons and reedbeds (
Phragmites). The IBA is important for breeding raptors and waders, and wintering/passage wildfowl and waders.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Humber Estuary (United Kingdom). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/humber-estuary-iba-united-kingdom on 23/12/2024.