The habitat is also vital for species such as the curlew as well as rare flowers and plants.
BBC: Making a home for rare wildlife in north Devon
The slender-billed curlew is so rare that only one nest has ever been discovered and that was more than a century ago.
BBC: Slender-billed curlew, WWW
The estate had claimed the council had not carried out a full study of the effect on the stone curlew, which nests on the ground in the area.
BBC: Thetford development stone curlew challenge rejected
English Nature, the government's wildlife advisory group, says the super-port will have a detrimental effect on birds such as brent geese, oystercatchers, ringed and grey plover, curlew, lapwing and teal.
BBC: Green groups have say over port
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