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Site description (2002 baseline)
Open country with cultivation and grassland, alternating with open woodland of evergreen oak Quercus ilex and olive-groves. Fallow fields are grazed by sheep.

Key biodiversity
Important to conservation of species with a unfavourable statute of conservation, specially for breeding birds of steppic habitats. Also it is important presence of Burhinus oedicnemus, Coracias garrulus, and others.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Monforte plains (Portugal). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/monforte-plains-iba-portugal on 23/11/2024.