Site description (baseline)
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.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Etang des Landes. Downloaded from
http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/2281 on 02/06/2023.