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Sweden Sweden Ramsar wetland

Henvålen Nature Reserve

38 bird species recorded; the most in June.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec29at the peak
Species recorded in each month · tap a month

Jonny Hansson · CC BY-SA 3.0

This month here

2 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.

Willow Ptarmigan
Willow PtarmiganLagopus lagopusWinter visitorYathin S Krishnappa · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ptarmigan
PtarmiganLagopus mutaWinter visitorTim Bowman · Public domain
  • Resident all year
  • Summer visitor comes to breed
  • Winter visitor comes for the winter
  • Passage migrant in spring and autumn

In numbers

38 species, counted.

34out 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).

  • 38Speciesrecorded more than once
  • 7Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
  • 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
  • 150Recordsopen records within 6 km
  • 757 mAltitudeabove the sea
  • 3Raptors
  • 1Owls
  • 7Waders
  • 1Gulls & seabirds
  • 1Ducks & geese
  • 21Songbirds
  • 4Other 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 38 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
  • Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
  • Rough-legged BuzzardButeo lagopus
  • Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
Owls1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
Waders7 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
  • Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusNT
  • Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
  • European Golden PloverPluvialis apricaria
  • Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
  • Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatus
  • RuffCalidris pugnax
Gulls & seabirds1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Common GullLarus canus
Ducks & geese1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Eurasian TealAnas crecca
Songbirds21 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Siberian JayPerisoreus infaustus
  • Lanius excubitorLanius excubitor
  • Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
  • GoldcrestRegulus regulus
  • FieldfareTurdus pilaris
  • Common Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus
  • European RobinErithacus rubecula
  • Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
  • Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
  • Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
  • Bohemian WaxwingBombycilla garrulus
  • Willow TitPoecile montanus
  • Common House MartinDelichon urbicum
  • Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalis
  • Lesser whitethroatSylvia curruca
  • Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
  • BramblingFringilla montifringilla
  • Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinus
  • Red-backed ShrikeLanius collurio
  • Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
  • Barn swallowHirundo rustica
Other birds4 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Willow PtarmiganLagopus lagopus
  • PtarmiganLagopus muta
  • Black GrouseLyrurus tetrix
  • Eurasian Three-toed WoodpeckerPicoides tridactylus

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. Jan2-6°/-12°49 mm
  2. Feb1-5°/-12°36 mm
  3. Mar8-2°/-9°42 mm
  4. Apr103°/-4°48 mm
  5. May69°/1°88 mm
  6. Jun2914°/5°108 mm
  7. Jul417°/8°138 mm
  8. Aug315°/7°131 mm
  9. Sep710°/4°81 mm
  10. Oct03°/-2°71 mm
  11. Nov0-2°/-7°55 mm
  12. Dec0-5°/-10°50 mm
  • Bar: species recorded that month.
  • Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Henvålen Nature Reserve.

Nature reserve in Jämtland County, Sweden

Henvålen Nature Reserve is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Sweden, 757 m above the sea.

38 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 150 open records.

The most recorded are the Siberian Jay, the Golden Eagle and the Willow Ptarmigan.

3 species come for the summer, 3 for the winter and 1 only pass through.

The most species are recorded in June.

Henvålens naturreservat Kläppen
Jonny Hansson · 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.

Henvålen Nature Reserve 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

    • 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
    • places to stay 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 Henvålen Nature Reserve.

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

    Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
    Henvålen · 2.1 kmSärvfjället · 5.4 kmLövkläppen · 5.9 kmSvedjelandet · 12 kmEkorrlandet · 17 kmHögrensvålen · 21 kmMunkskallen · 25 km
    Lakeyas9 lakes within 15 km
    Abborrsjön0.5 km² · 9.5 kmVäster-Mjöingen0.4 km² · 9.9 kmÖver-Grucken3.0 km² · 13 kmHåsjön0.8 km² · 14 kmNeder-Sölvbacktjärnen0.2 km² · 14 kmNedre Särvsjön2.6 km² · 14 kmStensjön0.5 km² · 14 kmGruckhån0.4 km² · 15 km
    Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
    Sölvbacka strömmar · 11 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.

    Henvålens naturreservat
    Jonny Hansson · CC BY 3.0

    Other places nearby.

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    • 34Birdyas Score
    • 38Species
    • 7Migrants
    • 0Threatened

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    • 158Migrants
    • 11Threatened

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    Svaet

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    • 86Birdyas Score
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    • 156Migrants
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    Åkervika

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    • 88Birdyas Score
    • 254Species
    • 189Migrants
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    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q10522177) · CC0
    Birds150 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, Cascadyas

    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.