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Austria Austria Ramsar wetland

Sablatnigmoor

65 bird species recorded; the most in June.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec48at the peak
Species recorded in each month · tap a month

Bateman55 · CC BY 3.0

This month here

0 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

65 species, counted.

44out 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
  • 38Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
  • 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
  • 480Recordsopen records within 6 km
  • 566 mAltitudeabove the sea
  • 4Raptors
  • 1Gulls & seabirds
  • 6Ducks & geese
  • 3Herons, ibises & grebes
  • 38Songbirds
  • 13Other 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
  • European HobbyFalco subbuteo
  • Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
  • Eurasian SparrowhawkAccipiter nisus
Gulls & seabirds1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis
Ducks & geese6 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • MallardAnas platyrhynchos
  • Mute SwanCygnus olor
  • GadwallMareca strepera
  • Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
  • Greylag GooseAnser anser
  • Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
Herons, ibises & grebes3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
  • Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
  • Great White EgretArdea alba
Songbirds38 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula
  • Eurasian ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
  • Great titParus major
  • BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
  • Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
  • Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
  • Barn swallowHirundo rustica
  • Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
  • House SparrowPasser domesticus
  • Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
  • Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
  • Red-backed ShrikeLanius collurio
  • Common House MartinDelichon urbicum
  • European RobinErithacus rubecula
  • Eurasian Reed WarblerAcrocephalus scirpaceus
  • European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
  • Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
  • Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
  • Marsh TitPoecile palustris
  • Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
  • Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
  • Savi's WarblerLocustella luscinioides
  • Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
  • White WagtailMotacilla alba
  • YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella
  • Eurasian MagpiePica pica
  • Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
  • Coal TitPeriparus ater
  • European GreenfinchChloris chloris
  • Northern RavenCorvus corax
  • HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes
  • Carrion CrowCorvus corone
  • Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris
  • Eurasian TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
  • European Crested TitLophophanes cristatus
  • Marsh warblerAcrocephalus palustris
  • BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
  • Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
Other birds13 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
  • Common Wood PigeonColumba palumbus
  • CootFulica atra
  • Green WoodpeckerPicus viridis
  • Common CuckooCuculus canorus
  • Black WoodpeckerDryocopus martius
  • Eurasian HoopoeUpupa epops
  • Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
  • European SwiftApus apus
  • Lesser Spotted WoodpeckerDryobates minor
  • Common PheasantPhasianus colchicus
  • Western CapercaillieTetrao urogallus
  • Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto

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. Jan01°/-7°45 mm
  2. Feb52°/-6°56 mm
  3. Mar47°/-2°61 mm
  4. Apr2913°/2°71 mm
  5. May918°/6°100 mm
  6. Jun4822°/11°110 mm
  7. Jul3924°/13°114 mm
  8. Aug4224°/12°125 mm
  9. Sep3218°/8°124 mm
  10. Oct013°/4°94 mm
  11. Nov87°/0°91 mm
  12. Dec32°/-5°67 mm
  • Bar: species recorded that month.
  • Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sablatnigmoor.

Sablatnigmoor is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Austria, 566 m above the sea.

65 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 480 open records.

The most recorded are the Mallard, the Great Crested Grebe and the Eurasian Blackbird.

27 species come for the summer, 10 for the winter and 1 only pass through.

The most species are recorded in June.

Sablatnigmoor spaetwinter
Bateman55 · 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.

Sablatnigmoor 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

  • 1observation towers within 6 km
  • 6marked trails within 4 kmHemmaweg Crna-Gurk, Wanderweg 20, Gracarca Tour and 3 more
  • 8viewpoints within 5 kmAussichtspunkt Kitzelberg and 7 more
  • 22car parks within 3 km
  • 17restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmSonnencamp Gösselsdorf, Ferienparadies Ilsenhof, FKK Camping Rutar Lido and 7 more
  • 93places to stay within 10 kmFerienwohnungen Martha, Raschun, Frühstückspension Petschnig and 90 more
  • bird hides 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 Sablatnigmoor.

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

Peakyas126 mountains within 25 km
Peca2,126 m · 14 kmKoroška Rinka2,433 m · 22 kmOjstrica2,350 m · 23 kmSkuta2,532 m · 23 kmLong Ridge2,473 m · 23 kmPlanjava2,394 m · 23 kmGrintovec2,558 m · 24 kmJezerska Kočna2,540 m · 24 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Gösselsdorfer See0.3 km² · 1.7 kmTurnersee0.4 km² · 2.7 kmKlopeiner See1.0 km² · 4.4 kmVölkermarkter Stausee8.3 km² · 8.1 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Klopeiner SeeBortle 3 · 4.4 kmKupitzklammBortle 3 · 11 kmPecaBortle 2 · 14 km
Cavernyas3 caves within 20 km
Obir Dripstone Caves · 7.5 kmPotok Cave · 14 kmGriffener Tropfsteinhöhle · 18 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.

Sablatnigmoor - Tomarkeusche
Mefusbren69 · Public domain
Sablatnigmoor 1
Mefusbren69 · Public domain
Sablatnigmoor aussichtsturm
Bateman55 · CC BY 3.0

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  • 44Birdyas Score
  • 65Species
  • 38Migrants
  • 0Threatened

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  • 141Migrants
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  • 265Species
  • 173Migrants
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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2210041) · CC0
Birds480 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, 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.