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: 22,856 hectares (228.56 km2)
| IBA conservation status | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment (most recent) | State (condition) | Pressure (threat) | Response (action) |
| 2007 | very poor | high | low |
| For more information about IBA monitoring, please click here | |||
Site description (2007 baseline)
A large complex of estuaries and sand-silt flats, including the Blackwater, Crouch, Colne and Dengie Estuaries. Foulness and Maplin Sands is one of the three largest continuous sand-silt flats in Britain. The IBA is important for wintering and passage waders and wildfowl and for breeding terns and is also nationally important for breeding Panurus biarmicus.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Mid-Essex Coast (United Kingdom). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/mid-essex-coast-iba-united-kingdom on 22/12/2024.