Site description (2000 baseline)
A natural river valley encompassing a river with oxbow lakes, alluvial beaches, riverine forest, natural ponds, wet meadows and marshes, dry meadows and bushy heathlands.
Key biodiversity
This is an important site for breeding and wintering waterbirds, passage raptors, and Grus grus. The site is a migratory bottleneck, where more than 3,000 raptors regularly pass (including Milvus migrans 2,000; Milvus milvus 1,000).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Val d'Allier : Saint-Yorre-Joze (France). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/val-dallier-:-saint-yorre-joze-iba-france on 22/11/2024.