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Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Ramsar wetland

Bardača

41 bird species recorded; the most in September.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec27at the peak
Species recorded in each month · tap a month

Selakovic Dejan · CC BY-SA 4.0

This month here

0 species in January.

The birds you are most likely to see in the month you choose, those that come for the season first. It opens on today's month.

No records for this month.

  • Resident all year
  • Summer visitor comes to breed
  • Winter visitor comes for the winter
  • Passage migrant in spring and autumn

In numbers

41 species, counted.

39out of 100

Our own rating, from the records only: species (50 points), threatened species (20), migrants (20) and protected status — Ramsar, IBA, SPA, observatory (10).

  • 41Speciesrecorded more than once
  • 16Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
  • 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
  • 172Recordsopen records within 6 km
  • 88 mAltitudeabove the sea
  • 4Raptors
  • 1Owls
  • 2Gulls & seabirds
  • 4Ducks & geese
  • 5Herons, ibises & grebes
  • 17Songbirds
  • 8Other birds

From open records (eBird and others, through GBIF, licensed for any use). More birdwatchers mean more records: a quiet place may have more birds than it shows.

The checklist

All 41 species.

By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.

Raptors4 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Common BuzzardButeo buteo
  • White-tailed EagleHaliaeetus albicilla
  • Eurasian SparrowhawkAccipiter nisus
  • Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
Owls1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Long-eared OwlAsio otus
Gulls & seabirds2 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
  • Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis
Ducks & geese4 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Mute SwanCygnus olor
  • MallardAnas platyrhynchos
  • Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
  • Eurasian TealAnas crecca
Herons, ibises & grebes5 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Grey HeronArdea cinerea
  • Great White EgretArdea alba
  • Little EgretEgretta garzetta
  • Purple heronArdea purpurea
  • Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
Songbirds17 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
  • Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
  • House SparrowPasser domesticus
  • Great titParus major
  • YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella
  • Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
  • Eurasian ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
  • European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
  • Eurasian MagpiePica pica
  • Barn swallowHirundo rustica
  • Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris
  • Northern RavenCorvus corax
  • Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
  • Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
  • Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula
  • Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
  • Lanius excubitorLanius excubitor
Other birds8 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Common PheasantPhasianus colchicus
  • CootFulica atra
  • Common Wood PigeonColumba palumbus
  • Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
  • Rock DoveColumba livia
  • Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
  • Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
  • Common CuckooCuculus canorus

Monthly presence relative to all bird records that month, so a busy month does not inflate every species.

When to go

The most species in September.

Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.

  1. Jan04°/-4°60 mm
  2. Feb06°/-3°59 mm
  3. Mar011°/1°62 mm
  4. Apr1917°/6°66 mm
  5. May1122°/10°90 mm
  6. Jun326°/14°85 mm
  7. Jul029°/17°66 mm
  8. Aug930°/16°67 mm
  9. Sep2723°/11°87 mm
  10. Oct2418°/6°74 mm
  11. Nov011°/2°72 mm
  12. Dec145°/-2°68 mm
  • Bar: species recorded that month.
  • Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bardača.

RAMSAR Wetland protected area, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bardača is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

It is also an Important Bird Area (BirdLife).

41 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 172 open records.

The most recorded are the Mute Swan, the Grey Heron and the Common Buzzard.

13 species come for the summer, 2 for the winter and 1 only pass through.

The most species are recorded in September.

ZPP017 Bardaca 2
Selakovic Dejan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and watch

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The place and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the bird hides, towers and trails that OpenStreetMap shows.

Bardača seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmMotel Bardača, Мотел ХРАСТ, LANTerna Boutique Hotel
  • bird hides within 6 km
  • observation towers within 6 km
  • marked trails within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • campsites within 10 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Bardača.

The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas43 mountains within 25 km
Jasenkova Glavica398 m · 17 kmMotajica529 m · 17 kmAvramovac611 m · 17 kmKremsko Brdo330 m · 18 kmJurinac360 m · 20 kmCrna Kaljuga343 m · 21 kmPožeška gora618 m · 22 kmPasja Pravda324 m · 23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Bardača Lake2.6 km² · 1.4 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The place, as people saw it.

Bardaca 2
Milenaer agree · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bardaca
Milenaer agree · CC BY-SA 4.0
ZPP017 Bardaca 1
Selakovic Dejan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other places nearby.

Bardača

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • 39Birdyas Score
  • 41Species
  • 16Migrants
  • 0Threatened

Lonjsko Polje Nature park

Croatia · 57 km

  • 57Birdyas Score
  • 119Species
  • 58Migrants
  • 2Threatened

See the guide

Kopački Rit Nature Park

Croatia · 127 km

  • 65Birdyas Score
  • 137Species
  • 74Migrants
  • 4Threatened

See the guide

Little Balaton

Hungary · 172 km

  • 80Birdyas Score
  • 203Species
  • 117Migrants
  • 7Threatened

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q108146921) · CC0
Birds172 open bird records within 6 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only; mostly eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
See these recordsgbif.org
SpeciesGBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikidata (CC0); Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.