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  • Explore
    • Budleigh Salterton
    • Budleigh beach
    • Leisure activities
    • Local Attractions
    • River Otter Estuary
    • River Otter habitat and wildlife
    • Lower Otter Restoration Project
    • Beavers on the River Otter
    • Pebblebed Heaths
    • SW Coast Path and Jurassic Coast
    • Surrounding area
  • Stay
  • Eat
  • Community
    • Festivals
    • Essential Services
    • General services
    • Budleigh Clubs, Classes and Societies
    • Churches
    • Budleigh Chamber of Commerce
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River Otter Estuary

NATURE RESERVE
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The River Otter Estuary covers an area of 33 hectares and along with the cliffs of Otterton Point is designated a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) because of the fine salt marsh habitat it supports and the adjacent Triassic sandstone rocks of considerable paleontological interest. Part of the area is also a Marine Conservation Zone.

The Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust manages and maintains the estuary. The site is adjacent to Budleigh Salterton and is home to one of the most popular footpaths in East Devon, running alongside an old 18th Century embankment that cuts through the floodplain.

The estuary itself contains a wide range of salt marsh communities, which together with additional areas of reed bed, tall herb and scrub support high numbers of breeding and overwintering bird species.
Over 120 species of bird have been recorded on the site, including a number of particular conservation interest, including the whimbrel and black-tailed godwit.

Current work on the estuary includes: increasing wading bird interest through the creation of scrapes on the adjacent marshland habitat; the management of reed beds; the provision of interpretation and the control of invasive species.


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​ Over ​120 species of birds recorded
​along the Otter estuary

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