Birdlife
The area is notable as a breeding area for Little Tern Sternula albifrons and as a transit point for Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula.
- Over-wintering species
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta;
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa islandica;
- Dark-bellied Brent Goose Branta bernicla bernicla;
- Dunlin Calidris alpina alpina
- Eurasian Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria;
- Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola;
- Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus;
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus;
- Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula;
- Ruff Philomachus pugnax;
- Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
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