Guest birds — valuable areas 2006

The digital overview map gives an overview of avifaunistically valuable areas for guest birds in Lower Saxony. Avifauna is the totality of all bird species found in a region. The avifaunistic data available to the Specialised Agency for Nature Conservation are assessed in terms of area. This assessment is carried out separately for breeding and host birds according to standardised evaluation methods (grading levels from “local” to “international importance”, see the information service Nature Conservation Lower Saxony 6/97). The basis is the guest bird data of the water and wading bird counts from the period 1997 to 2006. All available data from 1997 to 2006 were assessed. Data from a period of 5 years (depending on the data situation and level of processing) were used for the assessment for the assessment of a site. The regular collection and evaluation of data on host birds is carried out exclusively on the areas shown.