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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
An area of shallow coastal waters comprising lagoons, sandbanks and beaches. Also included are coastal grasslands, marshland, heather
Calluna moorland, wet heaths and some cultivated land. Ten percent of the area at the lower end of Falsterbo is a golf course.
The IBA is a major migratory bottleneck site, where more than 20,000 raptors regularly pass in spring and autumn (mainly
Pernis apivorus,
Accipiter nisus and
Buteo buteo). Large numbers of passerines also pass through, with 1,100,000
Fringilla coelebs and
Fringilla montifringilla having been recorded on a single October morning. The area is also important for wintering wildfowl. A total of 340 species have been recorded, with yearly totals exceeding 200 species.
National Partial
International PartialIBA overlaps with seven Nature Reserves (totalling c.42,600 ha). 7,450 ha of IBA covered by Ramsar Site (Falsterbo-Foteviken, 7,450 ha). IBA overlaps with Special Protection Area (13,640 ha).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Falsterbo – Bay of Fote (Sweden). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/falsterbo-–-bay-of-fote-iba-sweden on 23/12/2024.
