Site description
Humid grasslands (pastures and meadows) along the River Elbe, interspersed with ditches, reedbeds (Phragmites) and arable land.
Key biodiversity
The site holds more than 20,000 passage waterbirds on a regular basis, and is also a migratory bottleneck site, where up to 4,000 Grus grus regularly pass.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2022) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Lower Elbe valley. Downloaded from
http://www.birdlife.org on 26/05/2022.