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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
The site includes heathlands, meadows, ponds and marshes, deciduous and coniferous woodlands, bogs, hedgerows and bocages.
The site is important for forest and heathland birds and migrating raptors. The site is a migratory bottleneck where more than 3,000
Grus grus regularly pass.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
The abandonment of grazing is leading to the expansion of forests. In particular, this threatens
Circus spp. and
Lullula arborea.
National None
International None
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Plateaux de Millevaches et de Gentioux (France). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/plateaux-de-millevaches-et-de-gentioux-iba-france on 22/12/2024.
