Ukraine bird sanctuary
Kuzmynskyi Nature Reserve
33 bird species recorded; the most in April.
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This month here
0 species in January.0 species in February.8 species in March.28 species in April.3 species in May.22 species in June.0 species in July.14 species in August.0 species in September.0 species in October.0 species in November.0 species in December.
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.
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- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
33 species, counted.
Our own rating, from the records only: species (50 points), threatened species (20), migrants (20) and protected status — Ramsar, IBA, SPA, observatory (10).
- 33Speciesrecorded more than once
- 9Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 1ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 134Recordsopen records within 4 km
- 268 mAltitudeabove the sea
- 2Raptors
- 1Waders
- 2Gulls & seabirds
- 6Ducks & geese
- 5Herons, ibises & grebes
- 2Storks & cranes
- 13Songbirds
- 2Other 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 33 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors2 species
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
- Lesser spotted eagleAquila pomarina
Waders1 species
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosaNT
Gulls & seabirds2 species
- Pontic gullLarus cachinnans
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
Ducks & geese6 species
- Common PochardAythya ferinaVU
- GadwallMareca strepera
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- GarganeySpatula querquedula
Herons, ibises & grebes5 species
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Great White EgretArdea alba
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Storks & cranes2 species
- White StorkCiconia ciconia
- Black storkCiconia nigra
Songbirds13 species
- Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
- Common Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus
- WhitethroatSylvia communis
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- Eurasian ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- BluethroatLuscinia svecica
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- European GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Barn swallowHirundo rustica
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
Other birds2 species
- CootFulica atra
- Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
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 April.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan-2°/-8°40 mm
- Feb0°/-7°40 mm
- Mar6°/-3°45 mm
- Apr14°/3°45 mm
- May20°/9°70 mm
- Jun23°/13°92 mm
- Jul25°/15°85 mm
- Aug25°/14°63 mm
- Sep20°/9°51 mm
- Oct13°/3°48 mm
- Nov6°/-1°42 mm
- Dec0°/-6°41 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Kuzmynskyi Nature Reserve.
Ornithological reserve in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine
Kuzmynskyi Nature Reserve is a bird sanctuary in Ukraine, 268 m above the sea.
33 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 134 open records.
The most recorded are the Coot, the Western Marsh Harrier and the Pontic gull.
9 species come for the summer, 0 for the winter and 0 only pass through.
1 are threatened worldwide, including Common Pochard.
The most species are recorded in April.
Get there and watch
- Затишокplace to stay · 5.4 km · 2 within 10 km
- Shchyborivkanearest town · 2.9 km in a straight line
- Suceava Ștefan cel Mare International Airport (SCV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 229 km in a straight lineCar hire at IFO airport (Ivano-Frankivsk)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 2places to stay within 10 kmЗатишок, Парадіс
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- car parks within 3 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 Kuzmynskyi Nature Reserve.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The place, as people saw it.
Other places nearby.
Kuzmynskyi Nature Reserve
Ukraine
- 34Birdyas Score
- 33Species
- 9Migrants
- 1Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q25436490) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 134 open bird records within 4 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only; mostly eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Species | GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikidata (CC0); Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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