BirdLife Data Zone

AT022

Southern Waldviertel

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2009

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population at site	IBA criteria triggered
Corncrake Crex crex	LC	breeding	1997-2005	5 breeding pairs	C6
Black Stork Ciconia nigra	LC	breeding	1997-2005	5-6 breeding pairs	C6
Eurasian Pygmy-owl Glaucidium passerinum	LC	resident	1997-2005	15-35 breeding pairs	C6

Note: The current IUCN Red List category may differ from the category that was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment.

For more information about the IBA criteria, please click here

IBA Protection

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Waldviertler Teich-; Heide- und Moorlandschaft	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	13,725	protected area overlaps with site	0
Waldviertel	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	54,095	protected area overlaps with site	8,200
Wachau und Umgebung	Landschaftsschutzgebiet	45,775	protected area overlaps with site	0
Wachau - Jauerling	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	21,111	protected area is adjacent to site	0
Wachau	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	18,063	protected area overlaps with site	0
Kamp- und Kremstal	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	14,495	protected area overlaps with site	0
Jauerling-Wachau	Naturpark	11,550	protected area is adjacent to site	0

Habitats

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest	Broadleaved deciduous woodland	-
Grassland	Mesophile grasslands	-
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land, Forestry plantations	-

For further information about the IUCN habitat classification, please click here.

Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
forestry	-
agriculture	-

For further information about the land-use classification, please click here.

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Southern Waldviertel. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/3222 on 29/05/2023.