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Maerkische Schweiz(Berlin/ Brandenburg) - BirdForum Opus


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Maerkische Schweiz

Overview

Area is near railway direction Berlin - Kostryn station Muencheberg. Information and tourists centre are in Buckow. The area has different landscapes like hills until 130 m, small rivers and some lakes. Most well known is lake Kietzer See nearby Altfriedland.

Nature parc consists 5,2 squarekilomters lakes 109.4 sq forest 69,4 sq agriculture 10,4 sq meadows 10,6 sq villages

more than 1000 different plants 246 different birds ( lots of forest birds ) 60 different butterflies 129 different mussels and snails 11 different bats

also livingplace of rare turtle Emys orbicularis


Birds

Notable Species

In autumn are a couple of thousand geese there. But also other birds like Black Stork European Herring Gull White-tailed Eagle Pochard Shoveler Tufted Duck and a lot of birds which live in the reed


Cycling tour at 23.07. ( 17 centigrads, mostly covered, medium windy ) Strausberg - Buckow - Altfriedland - round the lakes - Muencheberg

Check-list

Birds you can see here include:

Starling Blackbird Common Wood Pigeon Collared Dove Jackdaw

Red Kite Black Kite Western Marsh Harrier Buzzard White Wagtail

Jay Greenfinch Goldfinch Great Spotted Woodpecker Green Woodpecker

Mute Swan Greylag Goose Grey Heron Common Crane Fulica atra

Mallard Common Tern Barn Swallow Black-headed Gull Common Redstart

Black Redstart Red-backed Shrike Great Cormorant Common Magpie Yellowhammer

Corn Bunting Nuthatch Wren Willow Tit Spotted Flycatcher

Chaffinch Saxicola rubetra Corvus corone corvix

Other Wildlife

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Content and images originally posted by albatross02

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