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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
A 62-km section of low-lying coastline situated east of Flensburg. Includes the inshore waters of a sandy bay (up to 1,400 m wide). Tourism, boat traffic and fishing are the main human activities.
The site holds more than 20,000 wintering wildfowl on a regular basis.
National Partial
International High775 ha of IBA covered by Nature Reserve (Geltinger Birk, 775 ha). 363 ha of IBA covered by Nature Reserve (Holnis, 363 ha). IBA overlaps with Special Protection Area.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Flensburger Innen- and Aussenförde (Germany). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/flensburger-innen-and-aussenförde-iba-germany on 22/11/2024.