Birding Sankt Goar (1 Viewer)

[joser]

Hi

I'm going away with a few friends to the Sankt Goar area in Germany. Has anyone got any recommendations on a good website or field guide to get clued up on the birds found in this area?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Captain_of_Crunch]

Unfortunately the only books that cover birding sites in Germany are all written in German. This one covers Sankt Goar:

http://www.amazon.de/Vögel-beobacht...r=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=vogel+beobachten+in+west

I don't know of any sites specifically around Sankt Goar, but the Rhine valley is a good area to see Rock and Cirl Buntings. They prefer old vineyards. Both Icterine and Melodious Warblers occur here as well, while Yellow-legged Gull is fairly common on the Rhine itself.

A good resource for getting recent bird sightings is ornitho.de. See here for recent birds around Sankt Goar.

 

[joser]

Thanks for your help. Seems I need to brush up on my German!

 

[Xenospiza]

Some interesting birds that you should be able to find are Middle Spotted Woodpecker and probably Grey-headed Woodpecker, Wryneck, Red-backed Shrike (from early May), Rock Bunting (probably near St Goar as well, but definitely just 1 mile north of Boppard) and Cirl Bunting (increasing).

 

[Andy Hurley]

Unfortunately the only books that cover birding sites in Germany are all written in German. This one covers Sankt Goar:

http://www.amazon.de/Vögel-beobacht...r=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=vogel+beobachten+in+west

I don't know of any sites specifically around Sankt Goar, but the Rhine valley is a good area to see Rock and Cirl Buntings. They prefer old vineyards. Both Icterine and Melodious Warblers occur here as well, while Yellow-legged Gull is fairly common on the Rhine itself.

A good resource for getting recent bird sightings is ornitho.de. See here for recent birds around Sankt Goar.

The book that Captain of Crunch suggests has good maps that you can use without good german. The bird names are easily googled and the german page will show the scientific name that you can look up in your field guide. Alternatively http://www.dict.cc/?l=e is a dictionary to translate between english and german or use http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j...-YeVF6MCjhkth4egq7AfdXA&bvm=bv.45645796,d.Yms, Avibase which has a section for foriegn names. Make sure you buy it well in advance because it take a while to translate all the bird names from german into english, my wife is german and I prefer to read english guides and have translated the names in Collins, Sibley and Birds of Southern Africa and I know how time consuming it is. If you want any help with translating feel free to PM me.

 

[albatross02]

Here is a map which can help You for orientation.
http://www.birdinggermany.de/deutschland.htm

Very strange, we discuss in Europe since many years about common european community, but communication in common language and languages of our neighboors seems to be no topic ?

Maybe another possibility, try to contact naturclub of Koblenz
E-Mail: [email protected]

 

[Andy Hurley]

Here is a map which can help You for orientation.
http://www.birdinggermany.de/deutschland.htm

Very strange, we discuss in Europe since many years about common european community, but communication in common language and languages of our neighboors seems to be no topic ?

Maybe another possibility, try to contact naturclub of Koblenz
E-Mail: [email protected]

I think the academical types tried it with Esperanto, but I think that it's going to evolve very slowly, into a common language. For example, every second word in business and advertising in German is nowadays an Englsh word, whether it is being used correctly is something else entirely. In English we use far more German, French, Italian and Spanish words than we did 30 years ago. I think maybe, that this is the way it will happen over the next couple of hundred years. A bit like the birds we all love, by natural evolution.