Current view: Data table and detailed info
The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2000 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.
Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species') at the site:
| Species |
Red List |
Season (year/s of estimate) |
Size |
IBA criteria |
| Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata |
LC |
passage (1997) |
100–450 birds |
B1i, C3 |
| Northern Pintail Anas acuta |
LC |
passage (1997) |
300–4,000 birds |
B1i, C3 |
| Corncrake Crex crex |
LC |
breeding (1997) |
380–411 pairs |
A1, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
| Spotted Crake Porzana porzana |
LC |
breeding (1991) |
5–10 pairs |
B3, C6 |
| Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa |
NT |
passage (1991) |
4,000–30,000 birds |
A4i, B1i, C3 |
| A4iii Species group - waterbirds |
n/a |
passage (1997) |
20,000-49,999 birds |
A4iii, C4 |
| Year |
Protected Area |
Designation (management category) |
% coverage of IBA |
| - |
LPO-BirdLife Parcels |
Private Reserve (-) |
6 |
| Habitat |
% of IBA |
Habitat detail |
| Grassland |
95 |
Humid grasslands |
| Artificial/Terrestrial |
- |
Arable land |
| Wetlands (inland) |
- |
Standing freshwater; Rivers and streams; Water fringe vegetation |
| Land use |
% of IBA |
| agriculture |
95 |
| forestry |
5 |
| fisheries/aquaculture |
- |
| hunting |
- |
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Basses Vallées Angevines (France). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/basses-vallées-angevines-iba-france on 23/12/2024.
