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Kapelludden is on the east coast of Oland opposite Borgholm and has shallow bays and coastal meadows.

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The area is important for both breeding and passage birds. Around 330 species have been recorded in total including many rarities. Red-breasted Goose is recorded almost annually.

Greylag Goose, Montagu's Harrier, Corn Crake and Common Crane are among the birds present in summer along with Pied Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit and Caspian Tern. Passerine breeders include Barred Warbler and Marsh Warbler.

A range of waterfowl, raptors and waders occurs on passage and White-tailed Eagle and Hen Harrier hunt the area in winter, sometimes joined by Peregrine Falcon and Gyr Falcon.

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Birds you can see here include:

Great Crested Grebe, Great Cormorant, Whooper Swan, Greylag Goose, Barnacle Goose, Dark-bellied Brent Goose, Eurasian Wigeon, Common Teal, Mallard, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Common Eider, Steller's Eider, Western Honey-Buzzard, White-tailed Eagle, Hen Harrier, Montagu's Harrier, Rough-legged Buzzard, Common Buzzard, Merlin, Northern Hobby, Gyr Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Corn Crake, Common Crane, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Pied Avocet, Northern Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Eurasian Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Red Knot, Sanderling, Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Ruff, Common Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, Bar-tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank, Common Redshank, Common Greenshank, Ruddy Turnstone, Red-necked Phalarope, Caspian Tern, Sandwich Tern, Common Woodpigeon, Short-eared Owl, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Barred Warbler, Snow Bunting, Reed Bunting

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To reach Kapelluddun take the road eastwards at the church in the village of Bredsatra, north-east of Borgholm.

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Nature in Oland

Content and images originally posted by Steve