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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
An area of flood-plain bordering the River Tisza, located near to the town of Tiszaújváros. The IBA includes areas of wet forest and grassland, and oxbow lakes. Human activities include arable farming, grazing, mowing, reed-harvesting (`Other' land-use, below) and angling. This area includes two sites that were treated as separate IBAs in the previous international IBA inventory (Grimmett and Jones 1989): `Tiszadobiártér' (former site HU034) and `Tiszaluc-Kesznyéten puszta' (former site HU037).
An important breeding site for herons (Ardeidae) and other waterbirds. Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria:
Aythya nyroca (3-5 breeding pairs),
Haliaeetus albicilla (wintering),
Crex crex (breeding).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
The Tiszatáj Land Trust has acquired the heronry and important areas of grassland, and a management plan for the LPA was prepared in 1997. An area of good-quality
Ardeola ralloides habitat, owned by MME, was accidentally burned in 1996.
National Partial
International None6,083 ha of IBA covered by Landscape Protected Area (Kesznyéteni, 6,083 ha).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Kesznyéten (Hungary). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/kesznyéten-iba-hungary on 23/12/2024.
