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Jagst mit Seitentälern

65 bird species recorded; the most in May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec49at the peak
Species recorded in each month · tap a month

Olof Hreiðarsson · CC BY 3.0

This month here

38 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.

Great tit
Great titParus majorWinter visitorPeterRohrbeck · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eurasian Magpie
Eurasian MagpiePica picaWinter visitorAlexis Lours · CC BY 4.0
Eurasian Blue Tit
Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusWinter visitorSławek Staszczuk · CC BY-SA 3.0
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorWinter visitorПлешков Алексей · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eurasian Blackbird
Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merulaResidentKahvilokki · CC BY-SA 4.0
House Sparrow
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentDiliff · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh Tit
Marsh TitPoecile palustrisWinter visitorStephan Sprinz · CC BY 4.0
Eurasian Jay
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusWinter visitorZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eurasian Chaffinch
Eurasian ChaffinchFringilla coelebsResidentGilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0
Eurasian Nuthatch
Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaeaResidentChme82 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Carrion Crow
Carrion CrowCorvus coroneSummer visitorAlexis Lours · CC BY 4.0
Green Woodpecker
Green WoodpeckerPicus viridisResidentAlexis Lours · CC BY 4.0
Common Buzzard
Common BuzzardButeo buteoSummer visitorcaroline legg · CC BY 2.0
European Goldfinch
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentPierre Dalous · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Starling
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisSummer visitormarsupium photography · CC BY-SA 2.0
Rook
RookCorvus frugilegusPassage migrantKim Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0
Blackcap
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorphoto taken by Jakub Stančo , · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Kestrel
Common KestrelFalco tinnunculusSummer visitorAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Common Kingfisher
Common KingfisherAlcedo atthisSummer visitorCharles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0
Grey Wagtail
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinereaSummer visitorgailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0
  • Resident all year
  • Summer visitor comes to breed
  • Winter visitor comes for the winter
  • Passage migrant in spring and autumn

In numbers

65 species, counted.

40out 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).

  • 65Speciesrecorded more than once
  • 20Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
  • 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
  • 833Recordsopen records within 6 km
  • 274 mAltitudeabove the sea
  • 4Raptors
  • 1Owls
  • 1Waders
  • 4Ducks & geese
  • 2Herons, ibises & grebes
  • 42Songbirds
  • 11Other 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 65 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
  • Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
  • Red KiteMilvus milvus
  • Eurasian SparrowhawkAccipiter nisus
Owls1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Northern Eagle OwlBubo bubo
Waders1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Little ringed ploverCharadrius dubius
Ducks & geese4 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • MallardAnas platyrhynchos
  • GoosanderMergus merganser
  • Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
  • Mute SwanCygnus olor
Herons, ibises & grebes2 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Grey HeronArdea cinerea
  • Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
Songbirds42 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Great titParus major
  • Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula
  • Eurasian MagpiePica pica
  • Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
  • House SparrowPasser domesticus
  • European RobinErithacus rubecula
  • Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
  • Eurasian ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
  • Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
  • European GreenfinchChloris chloris
  • Carrion CrowCorvus corone
  • Marsh TitPoecile palustris
  • Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
  • Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris
  • European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
  • Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
  • Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
  • Common House MartinDelichon urbicum
  • RookCorvus frugilegus
  • BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
  • European SerinSerinus serinus
  • HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes
  • Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
  • Common LinnetLinaria cannabina
  • Barn swallowHirundo rustica
  • White WagtailMotacilla alba
  • FieldfareTurdus pilaris
  • BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
  • Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinus
  • SkylarkAlauda arvensis
  • WhitethroatSylvia communis
  • Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
  • BramblingFringilla montifringilla
  • Northern RavenCorvus corax
  • Coal TitPeriparus ater
  • Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
  • YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella
  • Marsh warblerAcrocephalus palustris
  • DunnockPrunella modularis
  • Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
  • Western JackdawColoeus monedula
  • Common NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
Other birds11 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
  • Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
  • Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
  • Common Wood PigeonColumba palumbus
  • Common CuckooCuculus canorus
  • Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
  • Grey PartridgePerdix perdix
  • Common QuailCoturnix coturnix
  • CootFulica atra
  • European SwiftApus apus
  • Middle Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocoptes medius

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 May.

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

  1. Jan382°/-3°55 mm
  2. Feb04°/-3°43 mm
  3. Mar99°/0°48 mm
  4. Apr1514°/3°40 mm
  5. May4919°/8°75 mm
  6. Jun2923°/12°59 mm
  7. Jul226°/14°73 mm
  8. Aug125°/14°69 mm
  9. Sep020°/9°51 mm
  10. Oct1014°/5°53 mm
  11. Nov07°/1°57 mm
  12. Dec63°/-2°61 mm
  • Bar: species recorded that month.
  • Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Jagst mit Seitentälern.

Special protection area in the EU defined by the birds directive in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Jagst mit Seitentälern is a Special Protection Area under the EU Birds Directive in Germany, 274 m above the sea.

65 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 833 open records.

The most recorded are the Great tit, the Eurasian Blackbird and the Eurasian Magpie.

13 species come for the summer, 6 for the winter and 1 only pass through.

The most species are recorded in May.

Jagstinsel Bärenstein
Olof Hreiðarsson · CC BY 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.

Jagst mit Seitentälern 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

  • 6marked trails within 4 kmPfad der Stille (Dörzbach), Jakobsweg Rothenburg - Speyer (2), Kulturwanderweg Jagst - Etappe 6 and 3 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 16car parks within 3 km
  • 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmWaldcamping Hollenbacher See, BDKJ Zeltlager Oberginsbach
  • 38places to stay within 10 kmGasthaus zur Krone, Heuhotel Hirsch, Ferienhof Marina and 35 more
  • bird hides within 6 km
  • observation towers within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Jagst mit Seitentälern.

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

Peakyas37 mountains within 25 km
Weitpretstaler Höhe · 6.3 kmWessenberg · 13 kmDrillberg · 13 kmWinterberg · 15 kmFrauenberg · 20 kmHardt · 20 kmBuchberg · 23 kmLerchenhöhe481 m · 24 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Sternwarte WeikersheimBortle 3 · 17 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.

Dörzbach - Ortskern - Jagst - Bäume am Ufer mit Spiegelung in Abendsonne
Roman Eisele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dörzbach - Hohebach - Jagst - Ansicht von der Jagstbrücke nach NO (RQCE4686)
Roman Eisele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mündung des Tiefenbachs in die Jagst bei Untergriesheim
David87hercules · CC BY-SA 4.0

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  • 40Birdyas Score
  • 65Species
  • 20Migrants
  • 0Threatened

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  • 158Migrants
  • 12Threatened

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  • 80Birdyas Score
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  • 80Birdyas Score
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  • 145Migrants
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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q23887473) · CC0
Birds833 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, Darkskyas, 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.