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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
Dammed stretches and reservoirs along the Danube surrounded by riverine forest and meadows.
The site holds 20,000 or more non-breeding waterbirds, on a regular basis, including
Anas platyrhynchos (15,000) and
Aythya fuligula (6,000). Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria:
Aythya nyroca (passage),
Crex crex (breeding),
Acrocephalus paludicola (passage).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
The site is threatened by the extraction of water and gravel, intensification of agriculture, tourism, and the construction of a new railway line.
National Partial
International PartialIBA overlaps with Landscape Protected Area and three Nature Reserves. IBA overlaps with Ramsar Site.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Danube valley: Neu-Ulm - Lauingen incl. Faiminger Stausee, Donau-Moos, and Gundelfinger Moos (Germany). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/danube-valley:-neu-ulm--lauingen-incl.-faiminger-stausee-donau-moos-and-gundelfinger-moos-iba-germany on 22/11/2024.
