Wexford Wildfowl Reserve

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Wexford Wildfowl Reserve

  • Country: 
    Ireland
  • Site number: 
    291
  • Area: 
    194 ha
  • Designation date: 
    15-11-1984
  • Coordinates: 
    52°30'N 06°19'W
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Overview

Wexford Wildfowl Reserve. 15/11/84; Wexford; 194 ha; 52°30'N 006°20'W. Special Protection Area EC Directive; Nature Reserve. Low-lying areas of empoldered farmland dissected by numerous drainage ditches created by draining an estuarine embayment. Water levels are controlled for irrigation and flood prevention. The site forms part of the world's most important wintering site for the vulnerable goose Anser albifrons flavirostris (world population about 30,000), which nests in Greenland, stages in Iceland and winters in Ireland and the UK. The average count of A. a. flavirostris wintering at the site is 32% of the world population. Several other passage and wintering waterbirds use the site. Ramsar site no. 291.

Administrative region: 
Wexford

  • National legal designation: 
    • nature reserve
  • Regional (international) legal designations: 
    • EU Natura 2000
  • Last publication date: 
    15-11-1984

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