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Towards Nairn, the beach is home to a wintering population of pale-bellied brant geese, one of only two in Scotland. [5] The birds belong to the Svalbard population. In 1888 and 1889, the dunes hosted breeding pairs of Pallas's sandgrouse, the only time this has ever been recorded in Scotland. [6]
Nairn (/ ˈ n ɛər n /; Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Narann) is a town and former royal burgh in the Highland Council area of Scotland.It is an ancient fishing port and market town around 17 miles (27 km) east of Inverness, at the point where the River Nairn enters the Moray Firth.
The Moray and Nairn Coast is a protected wetland site on the southern shore of the Moray Firth, in the west of Scotland.A total of 2,412 hectares comprises two areas: intertidal flats, saltmarsh and sand dunes at Findhorn Bay and Culbin Bar, and alluvial deposits and woodland of the lower River Spey and Spey Bay.
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Local government was reformed in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which replaced Scotland's counties, burghs and landward districts with a two-tier structure of upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. A new Nairn district was created covering the same area as the pre-1975 county.
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