The area is important for birds, with breeding reed warbler, sedge warbler and reed bunting in the reed bed, sallows and alders of the dune slack, common whitethroat, grasshopper warbler, skylark and European stonechats in the fixed dunes and their low scrub and burnet roses.
The grasshopper warbler has recently been elevated to red status in the Birds of Conservation Concern list in 2007  whilst reed bunting has amber status.