Medway Estuary & Marshes

Medway Estuary & Marshes

Country:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Site number:
645
Area:
4,697.0 ha
Designation date:
15-12-1993
Coordinates:
51°24'28"N 00°39'29"E

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Medway Estuary & Marshes. 15/12/93; England; 4,697 ha; 51°24'N 000°41'E. Special Protection Area EC Directive, SSSI. The site is a complex of rain-fed, brackish, floodplain grazing marsh with ditches and intertidal marsh and mudflat. It is of international importance for its diverse assemblage of wetland plants and invertebrates (12 British Red Data Book species). Over the winter it provides habitat for Tringa totanus (2.1% of the population), Pluvialis squatarola (2% of the population), and Calidris alpina alpina (1.9% of the population). The area is used for recreation, fishing, grazing, and hunting. Ramsar site no. 645. Most recent RIS information: 1999.
Administrative region: England
National legal designation:
  • esa
  • sssi
Regional (international) legal designations:
  • EU Natura 2000
Last publication date: 01-01-1999
Ramsar Information Sheet (RIS)