Current view: Text account
Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
The site comprises part of the former flood-plain of the now embanked River Rhine. Habitat-types include
Quercus-
Ulmus,
Quercus-
Carpinus and
Populus forest, springs and large gravel-pits.
A nationally important site for breeding
Alcedo atthis and for passage and wintering wildfowl.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
The area is a proposed Ramsar Site.
National Partial
International LowIBA overlaps with Landscape Protected Area and Nature Reserve. IBA overlaps with Special Protection Area.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Rhine flats Breisach - Sasbach with Limberg (Germany). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/rhine-flats-breisach--sasbach-with-limberg-iba-germany on 23/11/2024.
