Plym Estuary County Wildlife Site

Plym Estuary is located in the east of Plymouth with the A374 Embankment Road running along its western side. The site covers 114.9ha and consists of Saltram Saltmarsh, Crabtree Reclaim and the Plym Estuary area above the Laira Bridge.

Saltram saltmarsh is owned and managed by The National Trust and is accessible to the public. A variety of habitats are present including saltmarsh, grassland and woodland.

The site is designated as a County Wildlife Site because several Devon Notable plant species have been found at the site including brookweed, glasswort, sea aster, wild celery and lesser sea-spurrey. The site is also designated because of the wintering bird interest:

• 0.5 per cent of the British wintering population of mandarin, little egret, greenshank, common sandpiper, mediterranean gull, herring gull, glaucous gull and iceland gull
• 0.1 per cent of the British wintering population of avocet, red-breasted merganser, dunlin, curlew, redshank and green sandpiper

If you have visited the site please send in your photographs and we will put the best on this site.

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