Current view: Text account
Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
Formerly an area of marshland with only a few lagoons remaining. The main human activities are arable cultivation and hunting.
This is an important site for breeding waders, breeding and wintering herons and wintering ducks. Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria:
Aythya nyroca (five wintering individuals).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Threats include intensive hunting in winter, urban development and rubbish dumping, over-exploitation of water and agricultural intensification.
National None
International None
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Almenara marshes (Spain). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/almenara-marshes-iba-spain on 23/11/2024.
