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Nature reserve Jezioro Łuknajno

149 bird species recorded; the most in May and in July.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec130at the peak
Species recorded in each month · tap a month

Morgen56 · CC BY 3.0

This month here

3 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.

White Stork
White StorkCiconia ciconiaWinter visitorW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Northern Raven
Northern RavenCorvus coraxWinter visitorDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 3.0
Goosander
GoosanderMergus merganserWinter visitorTony Hisgett · 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

149 species, counted.

66out 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).

  • 149Speciesrecorded more than once
  • 94Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
  • 2ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
  • 2,302Recordsopen records within 6 km
  • 115 mAltitudeabove the sea
  • 13Raptors
  • 1Owls
  • 5Waders
  • 8Gulls & seabirds
  • 14Ducks & geese
  • 8Herons, ibises & grebes
  • 3Storks & cranes
  • 77Songbirds
  • 20Other 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 149 species.

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

Raptors13 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
  • White-tailed EagleHaliaeetus albicilla
  • Common BuzzardButeo buteo
  • Lesser spotted eagleAquila pomarina
  • OspreyPandion haliaetus
  • European HobbyFalco subbuteo
  • Eurasian SparrowhawkAccipiter nisus
  • Red KiteMilvus milvus
  • European Honey-buzzardPernis apivorus
  • Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargus
  • Black KiteMilvus migrans
  • Hen HarrierCircus cyaneus
  • Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
Owls1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Tawny OwlStrix aluco
Waders5 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusNT
  • Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
  • Eurasian WoodcockScolopax rusticola
  • Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
  • RuffCalidris pugnax
Gulls & seabirds8 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
  • Common TernSterna hirundo
  • Common GullLarus canus
  • European Herring GullLarus argentatus
  • Black TernChlidonias niger
  • Pontic gullLarus cachinnans
  • Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
  • Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
Ducks & geese14 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Mute SwanCygnus olor
  • MallardAnas platyrhynchos
  • Greylag GooseAnser anser
  • Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
  • GadwallMareca strepera
  • GoosanderMergus merganser
  • Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
  • Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
  • Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
  • Common PochardAythya ferinaVU
  • Red-crested pochardNetta rufina
  • Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
  • Eurasian TealAnas crecca
  • GarganeySpatula querquedula
Herons, ibises & grebes8 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
  • Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
  • Great White EgretArdea alba
  • Grey HeronArdea cinerea
  • Eurasian BitternBotaurus stellaris
  • Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
  • Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
  • Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
Storks & cranes3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Common CraneGrus grus
  • White StorkCiconia ciconia
  • Black storkCiconia nigra
Songbirds77 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
  • YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella
  • Eurasian ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
  • Great titParus major
  • Barn swallowHirundo rustica
  • Northern RavenCorvus corax
  • White WagtailMotacilla alba
  • Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
  • Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
  • Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
  • Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
  • Red-backed ShrikeLanius collurio
  • Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
  • BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
  • Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
  • Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris
  • Common Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus
  • Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
  • Western JackdawColoeus monedula
  • Common House MartinDelichon urbicum
  • Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula
  • Eurasian Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
  • Savi's WarblerLocustella luscinioides
  • European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
  • Icterine warblerHippolais icterina
  • Eurasian MagpiePica pica
  • WhitethroatSylvia communis
  • Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
  • Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
  • Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
  • European RobinErithacus rubecula
  • Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
  • Eurasian Penduline TitRemiz pendulinus
  • FieldfareTurdus pilaris
  • Lesser whitethroatSylvia curruca
  • Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
  • SkylarkAlauda arvensis
  • Bearded ReedlingPanurus biarmicus
  • European SerinSerinus serinus
  • House SparrowPasser domesticus
  • Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
  • Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinus
  • Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
  • WhinchatSaxicola rubetra
  • Thrush NightingaleLuscinia luscinia
  • European Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleuca
  • Marsh warblerAcrocephalus palustris
  • Common Grasshopper WarblerLocustella naevia
  • Wood WarblerPhylloscopus sibillatrix
  • Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenus
  • Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
  • Eurasian River WarblerLocustella fluviatilis
  • GoldcrestRegulus regulus
  • Common RosefinchCarpodacus erythrinus
  • Common LinnetLinaria cannabina
  • RookCorvus frugilegus
  • Marsh TitPoecile palustris
  • Coal TitPeriparus ater
  • Barred WarblerSylvia nisoria
  • Lanius excubitorLanius excubitor
  • Willow TitPoecile montanus
  • Garden WarblerSylvia borin
  • BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
  • European GreenfinchChloris chloris
  • Eurasian TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
  • Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
  • HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes
  • Ortolan buntingEmberiza hortulana
  • Collared FlycatcherFicedula albicollis
  • Red-breasted flycatcherFicedula parva
  • Corn BuntingEmberiza calandra
  • Northern NutcrackerNucifraga caryocatactes
  • WoodlarkLullula arborea
  • RedwingTurdus iliacus
  • BluethroatLuscinia svecica
  • Common RedpollAcanthis flammea
  • Common crossbillLoxia curvirostra
Other birds20 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Common Wood PigeonColumba palumbus
  • Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
  • European SwiftApus apus
  • CootFulica atra
  • Common CuckooCuculus canorus
  • Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
  • Rock DoveColumba livia
  • Black WoodpeckerDryocopus martius
  • Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
  • Corncrake, corn crakeCrex crex
  • WryneckJynx torquilla
  • Middle Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocoptes medius
  • Lesser Spotted WoodpeckerDryobates minor
  • Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
  • Stock DoveColumba oenas
  • European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turturVU
  • Eurasian HoopoeUpupa epops
  • Grey PartridgePerdix perdix
  • Spotted CrakePorzana porzana
  • Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus

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 and in July.

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

  1. Jan3-2°/-8°51 mm
  2. Feb24-1°/-7°41 mm
  3. Mar435°/-3°43 mm
  4. Apr3612°/2°40 mm
  5. May13018°/8°69 mm
  6. Jun10621°/11°78 mm
  7. Jul12023°/14°92 mm
  8. Aug8323°/13°81 mm
  9. Sep6718°/9°57 mm
  10. Oct4011°/4°63 mm
  11. Nov285°/0°55 mm
  12. Dec00°/-4°52 mm
  • Bar: species recorded that month.
  • Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Nature reserve Jezioro Łuknajno.

Nature reserve Jezioro Łuknajno is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Poland.

149 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 2,302 open records.

The most recorded are the Mute Swan, the Common Crane and the Black-headed Gull.

80 species come for the summer, 11 for the winter and 3 only pass through.

2 are threatened worldwide, including Common Pochard and European Turtle Dove.

The most species are recorded in May and in July.

Jez. Łuknajno i Śniardwy
Morgen56 · 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.

Nature reserve Jezioro Łuknajno 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

  • 2observation towers within 6 km
  • 1marked trails within 4 kmSzlak Wielkich Jezior Mazurskich
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmInformacja Turystyczna w Mikołajkach
  • 4viewpoints within 5 km
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 17campsites within 10 kmMikolaijki, Wagabunda, Ośrodek Wypoczynkowy Wagabunda and 14 more
  • 70places to stay within 10 kmDomki Pokoje Żabi Staw, Lorens Family, Miodowe Łoże and 67 more
  • bird hides 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 Nature reserve Jezioro Łuknajno.

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

Lakeyas16 lakes within 15 km
Łuknajno Lake5.4 km² · 0.4 kmTałtowisko2.8 km² · 7.2 kmŚniardwy120 km² · 7.6 kmSzymon1.0 km² · 7.8 kmTałty17 km² · 8.5 kmSzymonek0.2 km² · 10 kmJezioro Inulec1.4 km² · 11 kmJagodne8.3 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Jezioro NidzkieBortle 2 · 27 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.

Jezioro Łukanjno
Morgen56 · CC BY 3.0
Jezioro Łuknajno z wieży widokowej
Mat86 · CC BY 3.0
Jezioro Śniardwy Folwark Łuknajno 01
Mat86 · CC BY 3.0

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Nature reserve Jezioro Łuknajno

Poland

  • 66Birdyas Score
  • 149Species
  • 94Migrants
  • 2Threatened

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  • 78Birdyas Score
  • 223Species
  • 159Migrants
  • 6Threatened

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Nemunas Delta

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  • 87Birdyas Score
  • 249Species
  • 177Migrants
  • 13Threatened

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Narew National Park

Poland · 117 km

  • 71Birdyas Score
  • 147Species
  • 101Migrants
  • 4Threatened

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q11834605) · CC0
Birds2,302 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 atlasesLakeyas, Darkskyas

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

The family

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