Special Protection Area

The EU Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) requires designation of SPAs for: listed rare and vulnerable species; regularly occurring migratory species, such as ducks, geese and waders; Wetlands, especially those of international importance, which ATTRACT large numbers of migratory birds each year. (Internationally important means that 1 % of the population of a species uses the site, or more than 20,000 birds regularly use the site.) This is a national Dataset.