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The
estuaries of the Irish Sea are of international importance for birds.
They are vital feeding grounds on migration flyways for shorebirds
travelling between the Arctic and Africa. Others depend on their
milder climate as a refuge when continental Europe is in the grip
of winter.
Twenty-one
species of seabird are reported as regularly nesting on beaches
or cliffs around the Irish Sea.
Huge
populations of the sea duck, Common Scoter, spend winters feeding
in shallow waters off eastern Ireland, Lancashire and North Wales.
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