IBA conservation status | |||
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Year of assessment (most recent) | State (condition) | Pressure (threat) | Response (action) |
2010 | very poor | not assessed | not assessed |
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Site description (2000 baseline)
A coastal site with intertidal mud- and sandflats, shoals, banks, islets and islands, saltmarshes, coastal heathlands and a few cultivated areas. Marine areas surrounding this IBA (and previously included within it, following Grimmett and Jones 1989) are now included in site 119.
Key biodiversity
The site is a very important staging area for Calidris alpina. It also holds several breeding species listed on Annex I of the EC Birds Directive including Recurvirostra avosetta, Philomachus pugnax, Tringa glareola, Sterna hirundo, S. paradisaea and S. albifrons.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: South Læsø (Denmark). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/south-læsø-iba-denmark on 24/12/2024.