PL015
Insko Site


Country/territory: Poland

IBA criteria met: C1, C2, C6 (2010)
For more information about IBA criteria, please click here

Area: 88,180 hectares (881.80 km2)

Ogólnopolskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Ptaków

Site description (2000 baseline)
Iñsk Landscape Park protects the moraine landscape of the Iñskie lakeland. The site is drained by the Ina river and its tributaries and partly by the tributaries of the Rega river. There are 63 lakes, most of them flow-lakes. The largest is Iñsko lake with a depth of 42 m and an extensive shoreline. Forest is widely distributed across the park and is dominated by broadleaved forest of Quercus/Fagus. In stagnant hollows there are many swamps and cave lakes.

Key biodiversity
Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria: Crex crex (3-5 pairs).


Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Insko Site (Poland). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/insko-site-iba-poland on 23/12/2024.