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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
A loess-covered mountain range of volcanic origin. Although vineyards predominate, many traditional landscape elements still occur. Habitat-types include
Fagus and
Quercus-
Carpinus forest, sub-Mediterranean scrub communities, dry grassland, loess cliffs, orchards, abandoned quarries and arable land.
A nationally important site for breeding
Merops apiaster and
Saxicola torquata.
National Partial
International LowIBA overlaps with Landscape Protected Area and Nature Reserve. IBA overlaps with Special Protection Area.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Kaiserstuhl (Germany). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/kaiserstuhl-iba-germany on 27/11/2024.
