Special Protection Areas
Last update: 2020-12-03
Description
SPAs in Scotland are classified by Scottish Ministers . These are areas of the most important habitat for rare (listed on Annex I to the Directive) and regularly occurring migratory birds within the European Union.
SPAs are classified under the EC Birds Directive and together with SACs, form the Natura 2000 network. Proposed Special Protection Areas (pSPA) may be subject to change prior to classification.
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Licence
Available under the Open Government Licence 
Acknowledgment: Contains SNH information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Version history
- 2020-12-03 -
A further 12 sites have been given Special Protection Area status.
- Solway Firth (replaces Upper Solway Flats and Marshes)
- Seas off St Kilda
- Seas off Foula
- Moray Firth
- Ythan Estuary, Sands of Forvie and Meikle Loch (extension)
- Outer Firth of Forth and Outer St Andrews Bay complex
- Bluemull and Colgrave Sounds
- East Mainland Coast Shetland
- Sound of Gigha
- Coll and Tiree
- Rum (Additional Feature)
- West Coast of the Outer Hebrides
- 2019-07-01 - boundary corrections
- 2019-02-28 - null
- 2019-02-11 - Update to PA_code 8548 Montrose Basin