Spring migration of wild geese in Lubuskie has begun

Areas of the mouth of the river Warta to Odra in this part of Europe are an important resting spot for migrating birds, during both the autumn and spring flights.

At the last count during the morning take-off in the Park more than 30 thousand geese were counted. Most are bean and white-fronted geese, but barnacles could also be spotted among them. At the beginning of February, the number of northern geese did not exceed 6 thousand birds.

"It\'s the beginning of the spring migration of geese from Western Europe to Scandinavia and Russia. When it comes to winter accents, whooper swans in the number of 3,000 birds still sit in the park. However, if the spring weather continues, these swans will follow geese and fly north, to their breeding grounds" - told PAP Michał Leszczyński from the Warta River Mouth National Park.

Although in the calendar it is still winter, relatively high temperatures mean that early spring has begun in nature. Symptoms of impending change of season in the mouth of Warta and its surroundings are many.

Greylag geese – the only geese nesting in Poland - are already flying in pairs, and predatory white-tailed eagles have begun brooding eggs. In the surrounding woods you can hear the drumming of woodpeckers and spring sounds of tits, almost everywhere in the background the sounds of cranes, which also stay in pairs and will soon start the hatches - added Leszczyński.

The Warta River Mouth National Park was created in 2001 and covers an area of 80.38 square kilometres. It is located at the western Polish border, in the part of the Toruń-Eberswalde glacial valley the Gorzów Basin. More than 270 species of birds have been observed in the Park, with broods confirmed in more than 170 species. Several of them are listed in the Polish Red Book of Animals, including bittern, shelduck, teal, little gull, curlew.

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