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Kholoniv nature reserve

25 bird species recorded; the most in June.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec17at the peak
Species recorded in each month · tap a month

Viacheslav Galievskyi · CC BY-SA 4.0

This month here

1 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

25 species, counted.

31out 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).

  • 25Speciesrecorded more than once
  • 4Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
  • 1ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
  • 143Recordsopen records within 4 km
  • 202 mAltitudeabove the sea
  • 1Raptors
  • 3Gulls & seabirds
  • 3Ducks & geese
  • 7Herons, ibises & grebes
  • 1Storks & cranes
  • 4Songbirds
  • 6Other 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 25 species.

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

Raptors1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
Gulls & seabirds3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Common TernSterna hirundo
  • Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
  • Common GullLarus canus
Ducks & geese3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Common PochardAythya ferinaVU
  • Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
  • Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
Herons, ibises & grebes7 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
  • Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
  • Grey HeronArdea cinerea
  • Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
  • Eurasian BitternBotaurus stellaris
  • Great White EgretArdea alba
  • Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
Storks & cranes1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Common CraneGrus grus
Songbirds4 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Eurasian Penduline TitRemiz pendulinus
  • Savi's WarblerLocustella luscinioides
  • Common Grasshopper WarblerLocustella naevia
  • European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
Other birds6 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Porzana parvaPorzana parva
  • Common QuailCoturnix coturnix
  • CootFulica atra
  • Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
  • Syrian WoodpeckerDendrocopos syriacus
  • Corncrake, corn crakeCrex crex

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. Jan1-2°/-8°45 mm
  2. Feb00°/-7°40 mm
  3. Mar27°/-3°47 mm
  4. Apr014°/3°44 mm
  5. May920°/9°84 mm
  6. Jun1723°/13°85 mm
  7. Jul1225°/15°90 mm
  8. Aug725°/14°68 mm
  9. Sep120°/9°58 mm
  10. Oct113°/4°50 mm
  11. Nov06°/0°44 mm
  12. Dec00°/-5°46 mm
  • Bar: species recorded that month.
  • Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kholoniv nature reserve.

Ornithological reserve in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine

Kholoniv nature reserve is a bird sanctuary in Ukraine, 202 m above the sea.

25 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 143 open records.

The most recorded are the Eared Grebe, the Common Pochard and the Great Crested Grebe.

4 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 June.

Kholoniv Horokhivskyi Volynska-Kholoniv nature reserve-view from southern part of village-2
Viacheslav Galievskyi · 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.

Kholoniv 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

  • 1campsites within 10 kmДіброва
  • 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
  • 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.

Photographs

The place, as people saw it.

Kholoniv Horokhivskyi Volynska-Kholoniv nature reserve-dam
Viacheslav Galievskyi · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other places nearby.

Kholoniv nature reserve

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  • 31Birdyas Score
  • 25Species
  • 4Migrants
  • 1Threatened

Charukiv nature reserve

Ukraine · 25 km

  • 62Birdyas Score
  • 147Species
  • 71Migrants
  • 3Threatened

See the guide

Ptashynyi Hai

Ukraine · 45 km

  • 54Birdyas Score
  • 108Species
  • 51Migrants
  • 2Threatened

See the guide

Cholhynskyi ornithological preserve

Ukraine · 117 km

  • 74Birdyas Score
  • 184Species
  • 132Migrants
  • 5Threatened

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q28707573) · CC0
Birds143 open bird records within 4 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

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

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