Current view: Text account
Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
An extensive complex of rivers, associated marshes/mires (
Carex,
Eriophorum), and grassland, 12 km south-west of the town of Blönduós. The area covers Hóp and Húnavatn and neighbouring areas, Eylendi, and along Hnausakvísl and Flódid, as well as the area to the south along Vatnsdalsá to Hof farm in the Vatnsdalur valley. Land-uses include grazing and angling.
The site also supports a good diversity of breeding waterbirds.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Hunting causes problems. The area is on the list of sites of conservation interest in the Nature Conservation Register. The site is an enlarged and re-named version of the IBA `Eylendid', formerly site IS037 in the previous international IBA inventory (Grimmett and Jones 1989).
National None
International None
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Hop-Vatnsdalur (Iceland). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/hop-vatnsdalur-iba-iceland on 23/12/2024.
