Publication - Progress report
Report to the Scottish Parliament on Progress to Identify a Scottish Network of Marine Protected Areas
This reports on which sites are currently included in the MPA network and outlines progress on Nature Conservation MPAs, Historic MPAs, and Demonstration and Research MPAs.
Annex D Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs)
Table 6.1 Marine notified habitats and species features of Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs) around the Scottish coastline. For a list of applicable bird species refer to Table 5.1
| Habitats | Species |
|---|---|
| Eel grass bed | Brackish water cockle ( Cerastoderma lamarki) |
| Mudflats | Egg wrack ( Ascophyllum nodosum ecad mackaii) |
| Rocky shore | Common seal ( Phoca vitulina) |
| Saline lagoon | Grey seal ( Halichoerus grypus) |
| Sandflats | Stonewort ( Lamprothamnium papulosum) |
| Sea caves | Vascular plant assemblage [covers eel grass communities in some sites] |
| Tidal rapids |
Table 6.2 Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs) contributing to the protection of habitats and species dependent upon Scotland's marine environmentSites marked with an * support bird species that are dependent upon Scotland's marine environment (marine associations/components) that overlap with the Scottish marine protection area (x24 SSSIs). These SSSIs are either estuarine or truly coastal ( i.e. they contain intertidal habitats upon which one or more of the qualifying bird species depend). Sites marked with a # either support habitats that overlap with the Scottish marine protection area or seal notified features (marine components - x53 sites). A total of x61 SSSIs have some overlap with the Scottish marine protection area (allowing for sites with multiple habitat and bird interests) and are considered to contribute to the MPA network
| OSPAR Region | SSSI | Features |
|---|---|---|
| II | A' Mhoine | Dunlin (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| II | Alvie | Goldeneye (breeding) |
| II | Auskerry | Arctic tern (breeding), storm petrel (breeding) |
| II | Badanloch Bogs | Golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| II | Balnagrantach | Slavonian grebe (breeding) |
| II | Bass Rock | Gannet (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Beauly Firth * | Goosander (non-breeding), red-breasted merganser (non-breeding) |
| II | Bemersyde Moss | Black-headed gull (breeding) |
| II | Ben Griams | Golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| II | Berriedale Cliffs | Fulmar (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), razorbill (breeding), shag (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Berwickshire Coast (intertidal) # | Rocky shore, sea caves |
| II | Bullers of Buchan Coast | Guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), shag (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Calf of Eday | Cormorant (breeding) |
| II | Coir' an Eoin | Golden plover (breeding) |
| II | Collieston to Whinnyfold Coast | Fulmar (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Copinsay | Guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Correen Hills | Common gull (breeding) |
| II | Craig Hammel to Sgaps Geo | Guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Cromarty Firth * # | Mudflats, sandflats, bar-tailed godwit (non-breeding), red breasted merganser (non-breeding), redshank (non-breeding), wigeon (non-breeding) |
| II | Crussa Field and the Heogs | Arctic skua (breeding), whimbrel (breeding) |
| II | Dalsetter | Arctic tern (breeding) |
| II | Doomy and Whitemaw Hill | Arctic skua (breeding), whimbrel (breeding) |
| II | Dornoch Firth * # | Eel grass beds, bar-tailed godwit (non-breeding), wigeon (non-breeding) |
| II | Dubh Lochs | Slavonian grebe (breeding) |
| II | Dunbeath Peatlands | Dunlin (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| II | Duncansby Head | Fulmar (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Dunnet Head | Guillemot (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | East Halladale | Dunlin (breeding), golden plover (breeding) |
| II | East Sanday Coast * # | Rocky shore, sandflats, common seal, bar-tailed godwit (non-breeding), purple sandpiper (non-breeding), ringed plover (non-breeding), sanderling (non-breeding), turnstone (non-breeding & passage) |
| II | Eden Estuary * # | Mudflats, bar-tailed godwit (non-breeding), black-tailed godwit (non-breeding), common scoter (non-breeding), eider (non-breeding), grey plover (non-breeding), oystercatcher (non-breeding), red-breasted merganser (non-breeding), redshank (non-breeding), ringed plover (non-breeding), scaup (non-breeding), shelduck (non-breeding), velvet scoter (non-breeding) |
| II | Eilean Hoan | Great black-backed gull (breeding) |
| II | Eynhallow # | Common seal |
| II | Fair Isle | Arctic skua (breeding), fulmar (breeding), great skua (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), razorbill (breeding), shag (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Faray and Holm of Faray # | Grey seal |
| II | Firth of Forth * # | Saline lagoon, bar-tailed godwit (non-breeding), common scoter (non-breeding), cormorant (non-breeding), curlew (non-breeding), dunlin (non-breeding), eider (breeding and non-breeding), goldeneye (non-breeding), golden plover (non-breeding), great crested grebe (non-breeding), grey plover (non-breeding), knot (non-breeding), long-tailed duck (non-breeding), oystercatcher (non-breeding), red-breasted merganser (non-breeding), red-throated diver (non-breeding), redshank (non-breeding), ringed plover (breeding and non-breeding), sandwich tern (passage), scaup (non-breeding), shelduck (breeding and non-breeding), Slavonian grebe (non-breeding), turnstone (non-breeding), velvet scoter (non-breeding), wigeon (non-breeding) |
| II | Forsinard Bogs | Common scoter (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| II | Forth Islands | Cormorant (breeding), puffin (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Foula | Arctic skua (breeding), fulmar (breeding), great skua (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), Leach's petrel (breeding), puffin (breeding), razorbill (breeding), shag (breeding), storm petrel (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Fowlsheugh | Fulmar (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), puffin (breeding), razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Gamrie and Pennan Coast | Fulmar (breeding), gannet (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), puffin (breeding) razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Graveland | Red-throated diver (breeding) |
| II | Hascosay | Dunlin (breeding) |
| II | Hermaness | Fulmar (breeding), gannet (breeding), great skua (breeding), guillemot (breeding), puffin (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Hill of Colvadale and Sobul | Arctic skua (breeding), whimbrel (breeding) |
| II | Holm of Papa Westray | Black guillemot (breeding) |
| II | Hoy | Arctic skua (breeding), fulmar (breeding), great black-backed gull (breeding), great skua (breeding), guillemot (breeding), red-throated diver (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Inchmickery | Fulmar (breeding), herring gull (breeding), lesser black-backed gull (breeding), shag (breeding) |
| II | Inner Tay Estuary * | Cormorant (non-breeding), goldeneye (non-breeding) |
| II | Isle of May * # | Grey seal, eider (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), puffin (breeding), purple sandpiper (non-breeding), shag (breeding), seabird colony (breeding), turnstone (non- breeding) |
| II | Knockie Lochs | Slavonian grebe (breeding) |
| II | Lairg and Strath Brora Lochs | Black-throated diver (breeding) |
| II | Lamb Hoga | Arctic skua (breeding), great skua (breeding), Manx shearwater (breeding), storm petrel (breeding) |
| II | Loch Ashie | Slavonian grebe (non-breeding) |
| II | Loch Fleet * # | Eel grass bed, sandflats, eider (non-breeding) |
| II | Loch Leven | Cormorant (non-breeding), goldeneye (non-breeding), teal (non-breeding) |
| II | Loch of Isbister and the Loons | Northern pintail (breeding) |
| II | Loch of Skene | Common gull (non-breeding), goldeneye (non-breeding) |
| II | Loch of Strathbeg | Goldeneye (non-breeding) |
| II | Loch Ruthven | Slavonian grebe (breeding) |
| II | Loch Vaa | Slavonian grebe (breeding), goldeneye (breeding) |
| II | Lochs of Harray and Stenness * # | Saline lagoon, goldeneye (non-breeding), scaup (non-breeding) |
| II | Lon a' Chuil | Greenshank (breeding) |
| II | Long Craig Island | Roseate tern (breeding) |
| II | Longman and Castle Stuart Bays * # | Eel grass beds, mudflats, cormorant (non-breeding), goldeneye (non-breeding), red-breasted merganser (non-breeding), redshank (non-breeding), wigeon (non-breeding) |
| II | Marwick Head | Guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Mill Loch | Red-throated diver (breeding) |
| II | Monifieth Bay * | Sanderling (non-breeding) |
| II | Montrose Basin * # | Mudflats, eider (breeding and non-breeding), knot (non-breeding), oystercatcher (non-breeding), redshank (non-breeding), wigeon (non-breeding) |
| II | Moorfoot Hills | Golden plover (breeding) |
| II | Morrich More * | Bar-tailed godwit (non-breeding), curlew (non-breeding), teal (non-breeding), wigeon (non-breeding) |
| II | Morton Lochs | Teal (non-breeding) |
| II | Mound Alderwoods # | Saline lagoon |
| II | Mousa # | Common seal, Arctic tern (breeding), black guillemot (breeding), storm petrel (breeding) |
| II | Muckle and Little Green Holm # | Grey seal |
| II | Munlochy Bay * # | Mudflats, wigeon (non-breeding) |
| II | North Fetlar # | Common seal, grey seal, Arctic skua (breeding), Arctic tern (breeding), great skua (breeding), red-necked phalarope (breeding), whimbrel (breeding) |
| II | North Hill | Arctic skua (breeding), Arctic tern (breeding) |
| II | Noss | Arctic skua (breeding), gannet (breeding), great skua (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Otterswick | Red-throated diver (breeding) |
| II | Papa Stour * # | Rocky shore, Arctic skua (breeding), Arctic tern (breeding), ringed plover (breeding) |
| II | Pentland Firth Islands | Arctic tern (breeding) |
| II | Pool of Virkie # | Mudflats |
| II | Ramna Stacks and Gruney | Guillemot (breeding), Leach's petrel (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Rannoch Lochs | Black-throated diver (breeding) |
| II | Red Point Coast | Guillemot (breeding) |
| II | Ronas Hill - North Roe | Red-throated diver (breeding) |
| II | Rosehearty to Fraserburgh Coast * | Curlew (non-breeding), eider (non-breeding), purple sandpiper (non-breeding), turnstone (breeding) |
| II | Rosemarkie to Shandwick Coast | Cormorant (breeding) |
| II | Rousay | Arctic skua (breeding), Arctic tern (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Rumsdale Peatlands | Dunlin (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| II | Sandness Coast # | Rocky shore |
| II | Sands of Forvie and Ythan Estuary | Arctic tern (breeding), common tern (breeding), eider (non-breeding and breeding), little tern (breeding), sandwich tern (breeding) |
| II | Saxa Vord | Fulmar (breeding), guillemot (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Skinsdale Peatlands | Dublin (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| II | Sletill Peatlands | Common scoter (breeding), dunlin (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| II | St Abb's Head to Fast Castle | Guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Strathmore Peatlands | Common scoter (breeding), dunlin (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding), wigeon (breeding) |
| II | Stroma | Arctic tern (breeding), guillemot (breeding), sandwich tern (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Sule Skerry | Puffin (breeding), shag (breeding), storm petrel (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Sule Stack | Gannet (breeding) |
| II | Sumburgh Head | Guillemot (breeding), puffin (breeding), seabird colony (breeding), shag (breeding) |
| II | Syre Peatlands | Black-throated diver (breeding), greenshank (breeding), wigeon (breeding) |
| II | Tayport - Tenstmuir Coast * # | Mudflats, common seal, bar-tailed godwit (non-breeding), common scoter (non-breeding), eider (non-breeding), goosander (non-breeding), long-tailed duck (non-breeding), red-breasted merganser (non-breeding) |
| II | The Hirsel | Goosander (non-breeding) |
| II | The Vadills # | Egg wrack, saline lagoon, tidal rapids |
| II | Tingon | Red-throated diver (breeding), whimbrel (breeding) |
| II | Tips of Corsemaul and Tom Mor | Common gull (breeding) |
| II | Trona Mires | Arctic tern (breeding), red-necked phalarope (breeding) |
| II | Truderscaig | Greenshank (breeding) |
| II | Valla Field | Great skua (breeding), red-throated diver (breeding) |
| II | Ward of Culswick | Arctic skua (breeding), whimbrel (breeding) |
| II | West Halladale | Black-throated diver (breeding), common scoter (breeding) |
| II | West Mainland Moorlands | Red-throated diver (breeding) |
| II | West Westray | Arctic skua (breeding), Arctic tern (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| II | Whiteness Head * # | Mudflats, bar-tailed godwit (non-breeding), knot (non-breeding) |
| II | Whiting Ness - Ethie Haven * | Fulmar (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), puffin (breeding), purple sandpiper (non-breeding), shag (breeding), turnstone (non-breeding) |
| II & III | Glendoe Lochans | Common scoter (breeding), Slavonian grebe (breeding) |
| III | Abbey Burn Foot to Balcary Point | Cormorant (breeding), fulmar (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), razorbill (breeding) |
| III | Ailsa Craig | Gannet (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| III | Assynt Lochs | Black-throated diver (breeding) |
| III | Ballochmartin Bay # | Sandflats |
| III | Balranald Bog and Loch nam Feithean # | Mudflats |
| III | Bogside Flats # | Mudflats |
| III | Borgue Coast | Common gull (breeding), great black-backed gull (breeding) |
| III | Bridgend Flats # | Sandflats |
| III | Canna and Sanday | Shag (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| III | Cape Wrath | Guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), puffin (breeding), razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| III | Castle Loch | Goosander (non-breeding) |
| III | Cnoc an Alaskie | Greenshank (breeding) |
| III | Cree Estuary # | Mudflats |
| III | Derskelpin Moss | Dunlin (breeding) |
| III | Druim nam Bad | Dunlin (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| III | Flannan Isles | Fulmar (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), Leach's petrel (breeding), puffin (breeding), razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| III | Glas Eileanan | Common tern (breeding) |
| III | Grudie Peatlands | Dunlin (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| III | Gruinart Flats * # | Mudflats, light-bellied Brent goose (passage) |
| III | Handa Island | Artic skua (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| III | Howmore Estuary, Lochs Roag and Fada # | Saline lagoon |
| III | Inner Clyde * | Cormorant (non-breeding), eider (non-breeding), goldeneye (non-breeding), oystercatcher (non-breeding), red-breasted merganser (non-breeding), red-throated diver (non-breeding), redshank (non-breeding) |
| III | Kames Bay # | Sandflats |
| III | Kentra Bay and Moss # | Mudflats |
| III | Knapdale Lochs | Black-throated diver (breeding) |
| III | Loch an Duin # | Saline lagoon, tidal rapids, brackish water cockle |
| III | Loch Awe and Loch Ailsh | Black-throated diver (breeding) |
| III | Loch Bee # | Saline lagoon, brackish water cockle |
| III | Loch Bee Machair | Dunlin (breeding) |
| III | Loch Caluim Flows | Dunlin (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| III | Loch Maree | Black-throated diver (breeding) |
| III | Loch Moidart # | Mudflats |
| III | Loch nam Madadh # | Mudflats, rocky shore, saline lagoons, stoneworts, tidal rapids |
| III | Loch Obisary # | Saline lagoon |
| III | Loch Shiel | Black-throated diver (breeding) |
| III | Loch Siadar # | Saline lagoon, tidal rapids |
| III | Loch Stack and River Laxford | Black-throated diver (breeding) |
| III | Loch Urigill | Black-throated diver (breeding) |
| III | Lochs at Clachan # | Saline lagoon |
| III | Luskentyre Banks and Saltings # | Sandflat |
| III | Mingulay and Bernaray | Fulmar (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| III | Mointeach Scadabhaigh | Black-throated diver (breeding), red-throated diver (breeding) |
| III | Monach Isles | Black guillemot (breeding) |
| III | Mochrum Lochs | Cormorant (breeding) |
| III | Mull of Galloway | Fulmar (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), razorbill (breeding) |
| III | North Rona and Sula Sgeir # | Grey seal, fulmar (breeding), gannet (breeding), great black-backed gull (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), Leach's petrel (breeding), puffin (breeding), razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding), storm petrel (breeding) |
| III | Northton Bay # | Saline lagoon, sandflats |
| III | Obain Loch Euphoirt # | Saline lagoon, stoneworts |
| III | Oronsay and South Colonsay # | Grey seal |
| III | Port o' Warren | Cormorant (breeding) |
| III | Priest Island | Storm petrel (breeding) |
| III | Rhunahaorine Point | Little tern (breeding) |
| III | Rum | Manx shearwater (breeding) |
| III | Sanda Islands | Black guillemot (breeding), cormorant (breeding), fulmar (breeding), great black-backed gull (breeding), guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), Manx shearwater (breeding), puffin (breeding), razorbill (breeding), shag (breeding), storm petrel (breeding) |
| III | Scare Rocks | Gannet (breeding), guillemot (breeding), shag (breeding) |
| III | Shiant Islands | Fulmar (breeding), guillemot (breeding), puffin (breeding), razorbill (breeding), shag (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| III | Sleibhtean agus Cladach Thiriodh * | Dunlin (breeding), oystercatcher (breeding), purple sandpiper (non-breeding), redshank (breeding), ringed plover (breeding and non-breeding), sanderling (non-breeding), turnstone (non-breeding) |
| III | Small Seal Islands # | Grey seal |
| III | St Kilda | Gannet (breeding), guillemot (breeding), Leach's petrel (breeding), puffin (breeding), razorbill (breeding), storm petrel (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| III | Staffa | Fulmar (breeding), puffin (breeding), shag (breeding) |
| III | Strath Duchally | Dunlin (breeding), golden plover (breeding), greenshank (breeding) |
| III | Sunart # | Eel grass bed, egg wrack, rocky shore |
| III | Taynish Woods # | Rocky shore, tidal rapids |
| III | Tob Valasay # | Saline lagoon, tidal rapids |
| III | Tong Saltings # | Mudflats |
| III | Treshnish Isles # | Grey seal, seabird colony (breeding) |
| III | Ulva, Danna and the McCormaig Isles # | Mudflats, saline lagoon, tidal rapids, vascular plant assemblage, cormorant (breeding), shag (breeding) |
| III | Upper Solway Flats and Marshes * # | Mudflats, bar-tailed godwit (non-breeding), curlew (non-breeding), dunlin (non-breeding), golden plover (non-breeding), goldeneye (non-breeding), grey plover (non-breeding), knot (non-breeding), northern pintail (non-breeding), oystercatcher (non-breeding), redshank (non-breeding), ringed plover (non-breeding), sanderling (non-breeding), scaup (non-breeding), shelduck (non-breeding) |
| III | West Colonsay Seabird Cliffs | Guillemot (breeding), kittiwake (breeding), razorbill (breeding), seabird colony (breeding) |
| III | West Inverness-shire Lochs | Black-throated diver (breeding), common scoter (breeding) |
| III | Wester Ross Lochs | Black-throated diver (breeding) |
Figure 9 Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs) with marine associations/components
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