The ringing station of Fort-Vert is located in the French Department of Pas-de-Calais, on the Fort-Vert municipality, near the city of Calais. The site of Fort-Vert is a "Sensitive Natural Area", owned by the "Conservatoire du
littoral", and managed by the "Syndicat Mixte Eden 62".
The complex of Fort-Vert dunes gathers typical coastal environments of the North Sea together in one site: a horizonless foreshore, beaches, salt marshes, low dunes, brackish ponds, freshwater marshes, decalcified dunes and polders.
The site is particularly characterized by forested and shrubby dunes covering an area of approximately 200 hectares. This place lends itself perfectly for ringing and scientific research since it combines the presence of habitats for birds with an important migration route.
The complex of Fort-Vert dunes gathers typical coastal environments of the North Sea together in one site: a horizonless foreshore, beaches, salt marshes, low dunes, brackish ponds, freshwater marshes, decalcified dunes and polders.
The site is particularly characterized by forested and shrubby dunes covering an area of approximately 200 hectares. This place lends itself perfectly for ringing and scientific research since it combines the presence of habitats for birds with an important migration route.
View of the shrubby and forested dunes of Fort-Vert
One of the site's asset: Sea Pansy - Viloa curtisii
