9. Ujście Widawy (The Mouth of Widawa river)

MOTIVES:

1. Number and codes of habitats (HD I): 5 (6410, 6510, 9170, 91E0, 91F0)
2. Bird species (BD): 6
3. Other animal species 1 (fish - HD II).
4. Plant species 1 (HD V).

AREA:

SAC

LOCATION:

Along the Widawa valley from Pracze Odrzańskie up to Piskorzowice (along km 262-272), mainly within the dikes, in some places reaching area outside embankment- up to 1,5 km off the Odra valley.

AREA:

Approximately 900 ha.

DESCRIPTION:

The area is mostly covered by riverine communities, partly overdried and transformed outside the dikes in oak-hornbeam forests (approximately 70% of the area). It includes the terrain starting within the administrative borders of Wrocław (Rędziński Forest), entering the Widawa valley (up to Świniary), the Bystrzyca valley (fragments adhere to the river mouth) and the Mienia valley. In the vicinity of Piskorzowice there is a bigger patch under meso-eutrophic pastures and floodplain meadow communities.

HABITATS:

Meso-eutrophic oak-hornbeam forests, elm-ash forests, willow-poplar gallery forests and their succession stages, rushes and sedges, lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis), floodplain grasslands (Molinion).

BIRDS (NATURE):

Dendrocopos medius, Picus canus, Alcedo atthis, Milvus nigrans, Pernis apivorus, Circus aeruginosus*.

FISH:

Misgurnus fossilis (HD II)

PLANTS:

Galanthus nivalis (HD V),

PROTECTED:

Viburnus opulus, Convallaria maialis, Hedera helix.

COMMENTS:

The area endangered by different anthropogenic activities connected with an extensive recreational utilisation (Rędziński Forest), plans of setting up waste dump in Janówek (a few dozen of meters away from the Odra valley) plans of transforming the Odra river trough for flood control ends.

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