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Site description
Lakes, marshes, and wet meadows, surrounded by woodland, hedges and cultivated land, and plains. Human activities include agriculture, stock-raising, fishing and hunting.

Key biodiversity
This wetland area is important for breeding waterbirds and passage storks, raptors and cranes. The site is a migratory bottleneck, where more than 3,000 Grus grus regularly pass.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2021) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Etang des Landes. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 07/12/2021.