Data Zone
Country/territory: Russia (European)
IBA criteria met: B1i (2000)
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Area: 27,420 hectares (274.20 km2)
Site description (2001 baseline)
Forested area with a number of bogs and fens surrounded by agricultural lands, which are used by cranes as feeding places.
Key biodiversity
In 1995 not all area were covered by counting of cranes, so in reallity it very possible that number of the gathering cranes several times more than 1100. Also there is an information that Gallinago media are breeding on area, but no special researches were made.
Acknowledgements
The map polygon is provided courtesy of the Spatial Database on Important Bird Areas of Russia 2014 (© Russian Bird Conservation Union, © Transparent World).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Lotoshino crane gathering (Russia (European)). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lotoshino-crane-gathering-iba-russia-(european) on 26/12/2024.