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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.

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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 23/12/2024.