 All of these support a variety of wildlife including breeding birds, such as arctic and common terns, and plants like dwarf rush ("Juncus capitatus") and spiral tasselweed ("Ruppia cirrhosa").As a marine protected area the site is important for the common ringed plover ("Charadrius hiaticula"), 
common greenshank ("Tringa nebularia"), eel grass and tide-swept algae, and for its inter-tidal, salt marsh, muddy gravel, and sheltered mud environments.The wintering populations of the ringed plover and greenshank are monitored by the RSPB.