 web.jpg "Common seals (Credit Chas Spradbury)")
Common seals (Credit Chas Spradbury)
Both grey and common seals use the area regularly to haul out and take a rest.
The sand here teems with wildlife from buried cockles to brown shrimps.
The Dogs Head Sandbanks are located approximately 2.6km offshore from Lincolnshire Wildlife Trusts’ Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve.
Proposed for protection of the intertidal features, including sand and muddy, sand this is s site of high importance to many species of marine life. The sand itself is teeming with wildlife from buried cockles and polychaete worms to brown shrimps, which use the area as both a spawning and nursery ground.
The sandbanks also provide an important foraging, roosting and loafing site for many species of seabird, including gulls, common scoters, eiders, terns and cormorants.
This recommended Marine Conservation Zone is ON HOLD at the moment as it was recommended as a Reference Area.
This site was put forward as a Reference Area (a highly protected MCZ). Defra are reviewing the designation of these sites. The Wildlife Trusts will be inputting into this review.
Contains UKHO Law of the Sea data. Crown copyright and database right and
contains Ordnance Survey Data Crown copyright and database 2012
Other nearby MCZs
Downloads
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| Dogs Head Sandbanks.pdf | 237.65 KB |