Dengie nature reserve
The Dengie saltmarsh
Tillingham Marshes, in the central part of the SPA
Dengie 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. The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall 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
View southward near the Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall
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Coordinates: 51°40′59″N 0°56′53″E / 51.683°N 0.948°E
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