Danubian Lowland

Danubian Lowland

The Danube lowland (Slovak: Podunajská nížina) is the part of the Lesser Poland extending into Slovakia.

Csallóköz forms the largest part of the lowlands along the Danube. Here is the largest drinking water reserve in the Danube lowlands.

Grouse can be found in the lowlands along the Danube. The number of silver jackals is also increasing.

As it belongs to the zone of floodplain forests, its animal world is the same as the fauna of the Hungarian lowlands: pheasant, less often quail, roe deer, deer, wild boar, partridge, wood lark, thrush, wood grouse, cormorant, wood finch, wood finch, small, medium, large , Balkan woodpecker, Uhu, common, barn owl and forest short-eared owl, kuvik. Rarities: mouflon, badgers, silver jackal.

Birch, willow and sycamore trees are typical for fish ponds, swamps, rivers or other wetlands. A lot of sedges, reeds and cattails are found here. These areas are favored by gray, red, pygmy herons, grebes, puffins, cranes, storks, and buzzards. In fishponds, mallards, spoonbills, grebes, grebes, little, red-necked, black-necked grebes, swans, grebes, black and silver gulls, cormorants, cormorants, wild geese, ospreys, ospreys, otters, beavers, water shrews snake buzzards occur. In reeds, reed warbler, reed warbler, field sparrow, woodcock and hanging tit, bullfinch, wagtail, pygmy heron, brown, giant, pygmy toad, water, wood glider, moth, horse, small and common mosquito, guvat, harris, small, pygmy -, spotted water chicks, water hens, and cormorants can be found. In winter, arctic, northern, and white-billed divers can also be seen.

Quails, pheasants, rabbits, crows, black thrushes, red, blue, variegated, white-clawed warblers, peregrine falcons, and peregrine falcons also live in agricultural areas and grasslands.

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