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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
A section of the River Meuse on the Netherlands border, encompassing a free flowing stream in a broad gravel bed with islands and gravel banks, and including nearby flooded gravel pits.
This is an important site for wintering
Aythya ferina.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
The area is threatened by the expansion of gravel mining, and silt and waste deposition. The area is a proposed Ramsar Site.
National Partial
International NoneIBA partly covered by Nature Reserve.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Grensmaas (Belgium). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/grensmaas-iba-belgium on 22/12/2024.
