Deben Estuary SSSI

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox SSSI Template:Designation list Deben Estuary SSSI is a Script error: No such module "convert". biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) covering the River Deben and its banks Script error: No such module "convert". from its mouth north of Felixstowe to Woodbridge in Suffolk.[1][2] It is a Ramsar internationally important wetland site[3][4] and a Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.[5][6] It is also in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.[7] It partly overlaps two geological SSSIs, Ferry Cliff, Sutton and Ramsholt Cliff.[8]

The site has been designated an SSSI for its overwintering waders and wildfowl, and for its diverse saltmarshes. It has internationally important overwintering redshanks and nationally important numbers of dark-bellied brent geese, shelducks and black-tailed godwits. The estuary also has three nationally rare plants and a nationally rare mollusc.[8]

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