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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
The area is a mosaic of moraine lakes, reedbeds (
Phragmites), fens, peatbogs and forest.
The site regularly holds more than 20,000 passage waterbirds, and is a migratory bottleneck site˜up to 3,000
Grus grus regularly pass. Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria:
Otis tarda (breeding).
National None
International HighIBA overlaps with Biosphere Reserve (Schorfheide-Chorin) and Special Protection Area.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Schorfheide-Chorin (Germany). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/schorfheide-chorin-iba-germany on 23/12/2024.
