Sites - Important Bird Areas (IBAs)

Ornithological information An important area for breeding, moulting and migrating waterbirds. A total of 276 bird species have been recorded (including 126 waterbirds), of which 166 have bred (including 56 waterbirds).

Site description A stretch of the Barycz river valley between ¯migród in the west and the vicinity of Przygodzice in the east. Habitats include five large and five small complexes of fishponds, totalling 130 ponds in all, as well as surrounding meadows, arable fields, marshy areas and forests. Extensive meadows at Odolanów are mainly wet and have a dense drainage system which is cleared every few years with limited effectiveness. Mechanized hay-cutting is carried out in June and July. Some fish-eating birds are controlled (mainly Ardea cinerea and Phalacrocorax carbo).

Populations of IBA trigger species

Protected areas

Protected area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Dolina Baryczy	Landscape Park	87,040	protected area contains site	25,700
Dolina Baryczy - PLB020001	Birds Directive	55,517	is identical to site	55,280
Las Pardoliñski	Nature Monument	5	protected area contained by site	5
OChK Wzgó rza Ostrzeszowskie i Kotlina Odolanowska w woj. Wielkopolskim	Protected Landscape Area	60,600	protected area overlaps with site	1,700
Ostoja nad Barycza - PLH020041	Habitats Directive	82,026	protected area overlaps with site	51,933
Stawy Milickie	Nature Reserve	5,324	protected area contained by site	5,324
Stawy Milickie Nature reserve (Milicz fishponds)	Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar)	5,325	protected area contained by site	5,325
Wydymacz	Nature Reserve	46	protected area contained by site	49

Habitats

Land use

Management considerations Mechanical deepening of the fish-ponds by bulldozers destroys aquatic vegetation and deepens pond margins. Other problems are the disturbance of birds during the breeding season by fish-farming activity and osier harvesting, tree-felling on the pond dams during the breeding season, pollution of the water, air and soil (`Other'), and the drainage of alder woodland. The site is an amalgamation of six sites (the former PL047-PL052) identified in the previous pan-European IBA inventory (Grimmett and Jones 1989).

Protection status National High International Partial5,324 ha of IBA covered by Nature Reserve (Stawy Milickie, 5,324 ha). 49 ha of IBA covered by Nature Reserve (Wydymacz, 49 ha). 25,700 ha of IBA covered by Landscape Park (Dolina Baryczy, 87,040 ha). 1,700 ha of IBA covered by Protected Landscape Area (Wzgórza Ostrzeszowskie i Kotlina Odolanowska, 68,000 ha). 5 ha of IBA covered by Nature Monument (Las Pardoliñski, 5 ha). 5,324 ha of IBA covered by Ramsar Site (Stawy Milickie, 5,324 ha).

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Recommended citation  BirdLife International (2013) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Barycz river valley. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 22/05/2013

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