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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
A shallow, almost enclosed fjord area (connected to the open sea by sluices), surrounded by saltmarshes, meadows and agricultural land.
The site is an important staging ground for
Mergus merganser in cold winters, when regular staging grounds elsewhere are covered in ice
. Circus aeruginosus,
Recurvirostra avosetta and
Sterna hirundo, listed on Annex I of the EC Birds Directive, breed at the site.
National Partial
International High370 ha of IBA covered by Special Protection Area (Norsminde Fjord, 370 ha).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Norsminde (Kysing) Fjord (Denmark). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/norsminde-(kysing)-fjord-iba-denmark on 05/12/2024.
