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A large tidal range (6m average on spring tide) creates a large\r\nproportion of inter-tidal waters especially in the south near the mouths of the rivers Great\r\nOuse and Nene and along the along the eastern and western flanks of the Norfolk and\r\nLincolnshire coast respectively. The Wash forms the largest embayment in the UK and some\r\n51% of the cSAC is thus classed as \u2018sea inlet\u2019 incorporating habitats such as tidal rivers,\r\nestuaries, mud flats and sand flats. An important habitat division is the sandbanks, which are\r\nslightly covered by water at all times (subtidal) and the mudflats and sandflats, which are\r\nexposed at low tide (intertidal). The Wash supports the second largest area of intertidal flat in\r\nthe UK, which is of enormous significance to a wide range of species, especially waders and\r\nwaterfowl (ducks, geese and swans), particularly in winter and on passage. The site\r\ndesignation reports that 400,273 individual waterfowl (5 year peak mean from 1991/2-1995/6)\r\nregularly use the area in winter. This is some 20-fold higher than the 20,000 waterfowl\r\nrequired for the area to meet the EC assemblage qualification as a wetland of international\r\nsignificance.\r\n\r\nThe primary objective of the boat-based surveys of the Wash documented here was to broadly\r\nestablish the summer distribution, abundance (population size and density) and activity of\r\nbirds, especially breeding terns (Sandwich Sterna sandvicensis and Common terns Sterna\r\nhirundo) in relation to the proposed cable route corridor of the proposed Lincs offshore wind\r\nfarm. 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