These are sand streaks and heaps outside the direct area affected by the waves – the first stage of the developing dunes. These are wind-blown sand areas where no established vegetation cover could ever grow: only a few plant clusters here and there.
The embryonic shifting dunes are related to the white dunes (2120), they are found almost everywhere as a coastal extension of narrow inlets (1640), especially on the islands of Western Estonia, on the coast of Lääne County and Pärnu County, on the coast of Northern Estonia, as well as on the northern coast of Lake Peipsi.
Includes the habitat type 5111 (white dune site type) according to Paal.
Habitat group
Coastal habitats
Habitat status
Natura 2000 habitat