Country/territory: Italy
Subnational region(s): Piemonte
IBA Justification: A4i, B1i, B2, C2, C6 (2002)
Area: 104 hectares (1.04 km2)
Site description (2000 baseline)
The heronries are located in small woodlands surrounded by rice-fields, on the west Padana plain, north-west of the town of Novara. The site was listed in the previous pan-European IBA inventory (Grimmett and Jones 1989) as subsite 4 of the IBA `Heronries in the catchment of the upper Po and Sesia Rivers' (former site IT005).
Key biodiversity
Two mixed heronries: Garzaia di Morghengo-San Bernardino, and Garzaia di Casaleggio.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2025) Important Bird Area factsheet: Novara heronries (Italy). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/novara-heronries-iba-italy on 14/01/2025.