Current view: Text account
Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
A large embanked river and shipping canal (Talaue der Oder), flowing south-north through a moraine landscape. The banks are vegetated with reed
Phragmites and herbaceous growth; the surrounds are polders subject to flooding during high tides. Human activities include shipping, intensive grassland cultivation and arable production.
The site holds the highest density of breeding
Crex crex in Germany, and is one of only two breeding sites for
Acrocephalus paludicola. The site regularly holds 20,000 or more waterbirds, and the site is a migratory bottleneck, where 8,500
Grus grus reglarly pass.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Threats include sport fishing and tourism development.
National Partial
International HighIBA overlaps with Landscape Protected Area and National Park. IBA overlaps with Ramsar Site and Special Protection Area.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Lower Oder valley (Germany). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lower-oder-valley-iba-germany on 23/12/2024.
