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Hungary Hungary Ramsar wetland

Béda-Karapancsa

49 bird species recorded; the most in June.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec33at the peak
Species recorded in each month · tap a month

Kalinka Tamás · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

49 species, counted.

38out 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).

  • 49Speciesrecorded more than once
  • 16Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
  • 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
  • 206Recordsopen records within 6 km
  • 108 mAltitudeabove the sea
  • 3Raptors
  • 1Gulls & seabirds
  • 3Ducks & geese
  • 7Herons, ibises & grebes
  • 2Storks & cranes
  • 23Songbirds
  • 10Other 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 49 species.

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

Raptors3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • White-tailed EagleHaliaeetus albicilla
  • Black KiteMilvus migrans
  • Common BuzzardButeo buteo
Gulls & seabirds1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
Ducks & geese3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • MallardAnas platyrhynchos
  • Greylag GooseAnser anser
  • Mute SwanCygnus olor
Herons, ibises & grebes7 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Grey HeronArdea cinerea
  • Little EgretEgretta garzetta
  • Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
  • Great White EgretArdea alba
  • Black-crowned Night-HeronNycticorax nycticorax
  • Eurasian BitternBotaurus stellaris
  • Purple heronArdea purpurea
Storks & cranes2 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • White StorkCiconia ciconia
  • Black storkCiconia nigra
Songbirds23 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
  • Barn swallowHirundo rustica
  • Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
  • House SparrowPasser domesticus
  • Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
  • Eurasian ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
  • Red-backed ShrikeLanius collurio
  • Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
  • Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula
  • Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
  • BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
  • Great titParus major
  • Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
  • Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
  • Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
  • White WagtailMotacilla alba
  • Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris
  • Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
  • European RobinErithacus rubecula
  • Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
  • Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
  • European GreenfinchChloris chloris
  • Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
Other birds10 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Middle Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocoptes medius
  • Bee-eaterMerops apiaster
  • Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
  • Common Wood PigeonColumba palumbus
  • Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
  • Black WoodpeckerDryocopus martius
  • Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
  • Syrian WoodpeckerDendrocopos syriacus
  • Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
  • 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 June.

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

  1. Jan03°/-4°41 mm
  2. Feb06°/-3°46 mm
  3. Mar012°/1°43 mm
  4. Apr418°/6°42 mm
  5. May623°/11°75 mm
  6. Jun3327°/16°76 mm
  7. Jul2030°/18°61 mm
  8. Aug930°/17°58 mm
  9. Sep2624°/12°62 mm
  10. Oct818°/7°56 mm
  11. Nov010°/2°46 mm
  12. Dec04°/-3°46 mm
  • Bar: species recorded that month.
  • Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Béda-Karapancsa.

Protected area in Hungary

Béda-Karapancsa is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Hungary.

49 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 206 open records.

The most recorded are the Grey Heron, the Common Chiffchaff and the Barn swallow.

14 species come for the summer, 0 for the winter and 2 only pass through.

The most species are recorded in June.

Karapancsai erdő
Kalinka Tamás · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Béda-Karapancsa 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

  • 1observation towers within 6 kmОсматрачница
  • 1marked trails within 4 kmST315 Mohács - Hercegszántó
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmTourinform Mohács
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 19places to stay within 10 kmBéda ökoház, Bédaökoház, Béda vadászház and 16 more
  • bird hides within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Béda-Karapancsa.

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

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Csalinahegy · 14 kmVár-hegy · 16 kmÖreg-hegy · 23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Riha-tó0.7 km² · 7.9 km

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

Other places nearby.

Béda-Karapancsa

Hungary

  • 38Birdyas Score
  • 49Species
  • 16Migrants
  • 0Threatened

Kopački Rit Nature Park

Croatia · 36 km

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

See the guide

Lake Fehér

Hungary · 112 km

  • 87Birdyas Score
  • 227Species
  • 120Migrants
  • 11Threatened

See the guide

Upper Danube Valley Special Nature Reserve

Serbia · 24 km

  • 54Birdyas Score
  • 120Species
  • 53Migrants
  • 1Threatened

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q60183424) · CC0
Birds206 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, Riveryas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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