Current view: Text account
Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
A river flood-plain near Saudárkrókur town, comprising lakes, pools and extensive, seasonally flooded marshes/mires, dominated by sedges (
Carex,
Eriophorum). The area includes the lakes and marshes by Miklavatn, áshildarholtsvatn, Tjarnartjörn and the Skógar area. Land-uses include grazing and fishing.
An important moulting area which also supports a wide diversity of breeding wildfowl, waders and other waterbirds.
National Partial
International None1,550 ha of IBA covered by Nature Reserve (Miklavatn, 1,550 ha).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Miklavatn i Fljotum (Iceland). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/miklavatn-i-fljotum-iba-iceland on 23/12/2024.
