Etangs de Leucate et Lapalme (France) IBA | Summary

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Etangs de Leucate et Lapalme

Current view: summary

Country/territory: France

IBA criteria met: A4i, A4iv, B1i, B1iv, B2, C2, C3, C5, C6 (2000)
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Area: 218,160 hectares (2,181.60 km²)

Ligue Pour La Protection des Oiseaux

Site description (2000 baseline)
A complex of coastal habitats, including saltmarshes and lagoons.

Key biodiversity
The site is very important for breeding and wintering wetland birds and passage raptors and passerines. The site is a major migratory bottleneck, where 20,000 or more raptors regularly pass (including Pernis apivorus 15,000; Milvus migrans 3,000). Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria: Larus audouinii (passage).

Attributes
Raptors MOU - IBA listed under Table 3 of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Birds of Prey in Africa and Eurasia

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Etangs de Leucate et Lapalme (France). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/etangs-de-leucate-et-lapalme-iba-france on 23/12/2024.