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| | The Annotated Ramsar List: Denmark (and Greenland) |
 | | Shallow sea and fjord areas of reefs, sand-banks, islands, and saltmarshes, with farmland on inhabited islands. |
 | | It is an important staging area for geese and numerous species of breeding waterbirds, and the single most important moulting area for barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis), with ca.7% of the flyway population. |
 | | The area supports the highest densities of the summering goose Anser albifrons flavirostris (some 9-20% of world population, with 2588 birds in 1992 and about 6,000 in 1998) to be found in Greenland, as well as various species of breeding birds. |
| www.ramsar.org /profile/profiles_denmark.htm (3580 words) |
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