Data Zone
Country/territory: Luxembourg
IBA Criteria met: C6 (2009)
For more information about IBA criteria please click here
Area: 70 ha
Protection status:
| Most recent IBA monitoring assessment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment | Threat score (pressure) | Condition score (state) | Action score (response) |
| 2009 | very high | very unfavourable | low |
| For more information about IBA monitoring please click here | |||
Site description
An area of grassland which is flooded in winter, and cut for silage in the spring and summer. The site was included within a larger IBA (formerly LU002) in the previous international IBA inventory (Grimmett and Jones 1989).
Key biodiversity
An important autumn roosting site for Grus grus, the only site within a 200 km range. The area is also nationally important for migrating waterbirds, although numbers are small, including wintering Anser fabalis (100-150 birds). Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria: Crex crex (breeding).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2019) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Aspelt - Lannebur, am Kessel. Downloaded from
http://www.birdlife.org on 11/12/2019.
