Lubuskie·Poland
Photo: A.Savin · Wikimedia Commons (FAL)
The Ujście Warty National Park protects the flooded meadows where the Warta meets the Oder, one of the most important wetlands in Central Europe for migrating birds. In autumn and spring huge flocks of geese, swans and ducks cover the water, and white-tailed eagles hunt over the polders.
In season: Oct–Mar · Peak: Oct–Nov
Easy birding from dykes, trails and towers across open, often windswept floodplain. Numbers peak with the autumn migration and the winter floods, so bring a scope for the distant flocks.
Tens of thousands of geese on the flooded meadows
The main birding route across the polder
The whole floodplain from one point
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