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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
A shallow sea bay and coastal peninsulas with saltmarshes, reedbeds, heathlands, sandy and stony beaches, clay cliffs, unimproved dry grasslands, mixed deciduous forest and small patches of botanically interesting meadow on old shell beds. The site also includes a partly cultivated island with scattered habitation.
Of high importance for wintering
Somateria mollissima and
Melanitta nigra, but recent quantitative data are unavailable.
Sterna paradisaea, listed on Annex I of the EC Birds Directive, breeds at the site.
National Low
International High40,250 ha of IBA covered by Ramsar Site (Sejerø Bugt, Nekeselø Bugt and Saltbæk
Vig, 42,560 ha). 40,250 ha of IBA covered by Special Protection Area (Sejrø Bugt and Nekselø, 40,250 ha).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Sejerø Bay and Nekselø (Denmark). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/sejerø-bay-and-nekselø-iba-denmark on 28/12/2024.
