- Dengie SPA
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The Dengie saltmarsh
Tillingham Marshes, in the central part of the SPADengie SPA is a Special Protection Area on the North Sea coast of the English county of Essex.
It consists of large, remote area of tidal mud-flats and salt marshes at the eastern end of the Dengie peninsula between the estuaries of the Blackwater and Crouch. St. Peter-on-the-Wall Chapel overlooks some of the Dengie SPA.
It is a wetland of international importance and provides habitats for:
- Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
- Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus)
- Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
- Knot (Calidris canutus)
- Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa islandica)
- Dunlin (Calidris alpina alpina)
- Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
- Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
- Dark-bellied Brent Goose (Branta bernicla bernicla)
- Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
- Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
Sunken barges used as a breakwater, in the northern part of the SPA
External links
Categories:- United Kingdom Site of Special Scientific Interest stubs
- Essex geography stubs
- Special Protection Areas in England
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Essex
- Nature Conservation Review sites
- Coastal environment of Essex
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