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Site description (2002 baseline):
Site location and context
Lagoa Pequena is a part of an important coastal lagoon at the peninsula of Setúbal: Lagoa de Albufeira. Includes the innest and smallest lagoon and extensive reedbeds uptream, separed of lagoon by a dike and feed by Ferraira and Apostiça rivers. In this area predominate
Phragmites australis, poplars and willows and also freshwater open areas. In the surrounding zone, the forest of Apostiça and Ferraira and the sand dunes of Lagoa de Albufeira are to relate.
This site is important during the whole year for aquatic birds. Reedbeds are important not only for aquatic species like
Ardea purpurea, Ixobrychus minutus or
Porphyrio porphyrio, but also for migrating passerines during autumn migration.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
There is not any management plan for these protected areas. However, the territories are propriety of the Instituto da Coservação da Natureza, and are fenced. There is an intensive urbanistic and touristic pressure in the area. Water quality is affected by the pouring of two sewage farms upstream.
National Special Protection Area Lagoa Pequena; SIC proposal Fernão Ferro/Lagoa de Albufeira.
Internationa Special Protection Area Lagoa Pequena; SIC proposal Fernão Ferro/Lagoa de Albufeira; Ramsar Wetland Site Lagoa de Albufeira.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Lagoa Pequena (Portugal). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lagoa-pequena-iba-portugal on 23/11/2024.
