Kiskunság National Park, Hungary
The Kiskunság is a large flat plain situated to the south of Budapest and north of Szeged and located between the Danube and Tisza rivers. Several separate areas of land have been protected as the Kiskunság National Park (Kiskunsági Nemzeti Park) which was created in 1975 and has been declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO.
The Kiskunság National Park Management Centre is responsible for 444 square miles of protected area with 193 square miles of the total amount comprising the 7 separated areas of the National Park. Several landscape protection areas, nature conservation areas and other protected areas make up the remainder.
While most of the Kiskunság plain is now under intensive agriculture there remains good areas of deciduous woodland and excellent lakes, reedbeds, marshes and wet grassland as well as surviving areas of puszta (grassland plains).
Visiting the Kiskunság National Park protected areas requires permission in advance from the visitor centre in Kecskemét. However, most of the birds of the area can be seen outside the protected areas and driving along the minor roads can be highly productive with suitable habitat worthy of investigation scattered over the farmland between the protected areas.
From a birding point of view one of the most interesting areas is located between the villages of Szabadszallas and Fulopszallas in the centre of the region.
Date: 17th May 2017
Location: puszta area between Szabadszallas and Fulopszallas, Kiskunság National Park, Fejér county, Hungary
The Kiskunság National Park Management Centre is responsible for 444 square miles of protected area with 193 square miles of the total amount comprising the 7 separated areas of the National Park. Several landscape protection areas, nature conservation areas and other protected areas make up the remainder.
While most of the Kiskunság plain is now under intensive agriculture there remains good areas of deciduous woodland and excellent lakes, reedbeds, marshes and wet grassland as well as surviving areas of puszta (grassland plains).
Visiting the Kiskunság National Park protected areas requires permission in advance from the visitor centre in Kecskemét. However, most of the birds of the area can be seen outside the protected areas and driving along the minor roads can be highly productive with suitable habitat worthy of investigation scattered over the farmland between the protected areas.
From a birding point of view one of the most interesting areas is located between the villages of Szabadszallas and Fulopszallas in the centre of the region.
Date: 17th May 2017
Location: puszta area between Szabadszallas and Fulopszallas, Kiskunság National Park, Fejér county, Hungary
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