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Synevyr

35 bird species recorded; the most in August.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec32at the peak
Species recorded in each month · tap a month

Misha Reme · CC BY-SA 4.0

This month here

5 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-throated Dipper
White-throated DipperCinclus cinclusResidentAlun Williams333 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Great tit
Great titParus majorWinter visitorPeterRohrbeck · CC BY-SA 4.0
Goldcrest
GoldcrestRegulus regulusResidentMissy Osborn from New Forest, England · CC BY-SA 2.0
Common crossbill
Common crossbillLoxia curvirostraResidentLuiz Lapa from Oeiras, Portugal · 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

35 species, counted.

33out 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).

  • 35Speciesrecorded more than once
  • 7Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
  • 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
  • 180Recordsopen records within 6 km
  • 973 mAltitudeabove the sea
  • 1Raptors
  • 1Herons, ibises & grebes
  • 1Storks & cranes
  • 28Songbirds
  • 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 35 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
  • Common BuzzardButeo buteo
Herons, ibises & grebes1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Storks & cranes1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Black storkCiconia nigra
Songbirds28 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
  • Eurasian ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
  • White-throated DipperCinclus cinclus
  • European RobinErithacus rubecula
  • Coal TitPeriparus ater
  • Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
  • GoldcrestRegulus regulus
  • Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
  • Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
  • Great titParus major
  • Eurasian TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
  • Common House MartinDelichon urbicum
  • Ring OuzelTurdus torquatus
  • Northern NutcrackerNucifraga caryocatactes
  • Common crossbillLoxia curvirostra
  • Northern RavenCorvus corax
  • Willow TitPoecile montanus
  • BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
  • Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
  • Common FirecrestRegulus ignicapilla
  • Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
  • White WagtailMotacilla alba
  • Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
  • Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
  • Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus
  • BlackcapSylvia atricapilla
  • DunnockPrunella modularis
  • Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
Other birds4 species
JFMAMJJASOND
  • Western CapercaillieTetrao urogallus
  • Eurasian Three-toed WoodpeckerPicoides tridactylus
  • Black WoodpeckerDryocopus martius
  • Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major

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 August.

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

  1. Jan5-3°/-9°56 mm
  2. Feb0-1°/-8°54 mm
  3. Mar04°/-4°65 mm
  4. Apr112°/1°61 mm
  5. May717°/7°111 mm
  6. Jun720°/11°117 mm
  7. Jul1222°/12°113 mm
  8. Aug3223°/12°77 mm
  9. Sep1118°/7°77 mm
  10. Oct011°/2°70 mm
  11. Nov05°/-2°59 mm
  12. Dec1-1°/-7°58 mm
  • Bar: species recorded that month.
  • Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Synevyr.

Lake in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine

Synevyr is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Ukraine, 973 m above the sea.

35 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 180 open records.

The most recorded are the Grey Wagtail, the Eurasian Chaffinch and the White-throated Dipper.

5 species come for the summer, 2 for the winter and 0 only pass through.

The most species are recorded in August.

Ранкові промені на Синевирі
Misha Reme · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and watch

  • Мале місце для наметівcampsite · 10 km · 37 within 10 km
  • У Марічкиplace to stay · 1.2 km · 16 within 10 km
  • Synevyrska Poliananearest town · 3.6 km in a straight line
  • Maramureș International Airport (BAY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 108 km in a straight lineCar hire at IFO airport (Ivano-Frankivsk)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Synevyr 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

  • 5marked trails within 4 kmСхідно-Карпатський туристичний шлях, Синевирська Поляна - Терсовата, Blue trail and 2 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmСиневирське озеро, Полонина над озером Синевир
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 37campsites within 10 kmМале місце для наметів and 36 more
  • 16places to stay within 10 kmУ Марічки, Турбаза "Синевирське озеро", Арінка and 13 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 Synevyr.

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

Peakyas64 mountains within 25 km
Nehrovec1,707 m · 13 kmMoloda1,723 m · 14 kmMount Pohanec1,667 m · 14 kmYayko-Ilemske1,680 m · 15 kmGrofa1,748 m · 18 kmKoretvyna1,671 m · 20 kmGreat Kanusyak1,642 m · 21 kmPetros1,702 m · 21 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Kamianka Waterfall (Synevyr)6 m · 6.8 kmShypun Waterfall4 m · 8.9 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.

SnowOnSynevyrTheLake 2021
Markverona · CC BY-SA 4.0
Synevyr Lake rafts
Jan Pešula · CC0
Synevyr s gir
Мирослава Новікова · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other places nearby.

Synevyr

Ukraine

  • 33Birdyas Score
  • 35Species
  • 7Migrants
  • 0Threatened

Cholhynskyi ornithological preserve

Ukraine · 146 km

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

See the guide

Latorica Protected Landscape Area

Slovakia · 131 km

  • 64Birdyas Score
  • 138Species
  • 79Migrants
  • 3Threatened

See the guide

Hortobágy National Park

Hungary · 219 km

  • 88Birdyas Score
  • 276Species
  • 177Migrants
  • 14Threatened

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1188040) · CC0
Birds180 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, Cascadyas

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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