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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
The site includes ponds, moorlands,
Quercus forests, marshes and aquatic vegetation, cereal fields and bocages.
The site is regionally important for breeding and wintering waterbirds. Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria:
Aythya nyroca (passage);
Haliaeetus albicilla (wintering).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
High hunting pressure and the destruction of reedbeds (
Phragmites) by coypu
Myocaster coypus are the main threats.
National None
International None
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Region de Pressac, étang de Combourg (France). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/region-de-pressac-étang-de-combourg-iba-france on 27/11/2024.
