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Country/territory: France

IBA Criteria met: A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, C2, C3, C4, C6 (2000)
For more information about IBA criteria please click here

Area: 79,800 ha

Protection status:

Ligue Pour La Protection des Oiseaux

Site description
The area includes ponds, marshes, wet meadows, deciduous forests, moorlands and arable fields.

Key biodiversity
The site holds 20,000 or more waterbirds on passage and in winter, on a regular basis (including Anas platyrhynchos 2,500 (passage), 10,820 (winter); Aythya ferina 6,000 (passage), 9,317 (winter); Fulica atra 6,640 (winter); Vanellus vanellus 8,000 (passage), 3,444 (winter)). Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria: Aythya nyroca (passage, wintering); Haliaeetus albicilla (passage, wintering); Aquila clanga (wintering).

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2020) Important Bird Areas factsheet: La Dombes. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 27/01/2020.