North Slob
North Slob
An Slaba Thuaidh | |
|---|---|
Natural Reserve | |
IST (WEST )) |
| Designations | |
|---|---|
| Official name | Wexford Wildfowl Reserve |
| Designated | 15 November 1984 |
| Reference no. | 291[1] |
The North Slob is an area of
2 km2 (490 acres) of this reclaimed land is a nature reserve that is jointly owned and managed by BirdWatch Ireland and the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) as the Wexford Wildfowl Reserve (Irish: Anaclann Éanlaith Fiáin Loch Garman).[2][4] The reserve is open to the public.
Wildlife
The North Slob provides the winter home for 10,000 white-fronted geese, about one third of the world population, which migrate to Greenland for the summer months.[5]
International recognition
The Wexford Wildfowl Reserve was designated a Ramsar site in 1984.[1] The North Slob is part of the Wexford Harbour Special Protection Area of 27.34 km2 (10.56 sq mi; 6,760 acres).
Guinness World Records
He knew that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in pubs in Britain and Ireland, but there was no book with which to settle arguments about records. He realised then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular.
The North Slob featured on the Open University and BBC's Coast Programme.[9]
References
- ^ a b "Wexford Wildfowl Reserve". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- ^ a b Wexford Slobs on Birdwatch website
- ^ Michaels, Sarah. ""The Most Extreme Points of Ireland"". worldatlas.com. world atlas. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ Wexford Wildfowl Reserve, Co. Wexford
- ^ Flora and Fauna of Wexford Sloblands on the Ask About Ireland website
- ^ Guinness Book of Records collectors' web-site
- ^ Early history of Guinness World Records Archived 2007-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, p. 2
- ^ Richard Cavendish (August 2005). "Publication of the Guinness Book of Records: 27 August 1955". History Today. 55.
- ^ Wexford to Killiney Coast, Series 4, Episode 6, www.bbc.co.uk