10/06/2014

Kunkápolnás

After a rainy day, we have arrived to the Kunkápolnás Marsh. I have been here before with the local ranger, who has an extraordinary data collection from here. On the picture below, one can see a rather shaky road, what took us to the nearby village (Nagyiván), where we left the car and wondered around for a short period of time.




At the very edge of the site, there is a museum, where one can have a look, how Hungarian villagers have lived some times ago. The symbol of the Hungarian Great Plain (Puszta) is the "Gémeskút" or as I found via Google; Shadoof.


The site is stricktly protected, so we only looked at it from the peripheric. There was an other group visiting the site, not professional Hungarians, I believe so.


The vegetation is typical for salt marshes.





I have seen only one species but it was quite a good one for me: Stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus). See this sime for sound recordings on the species: http://www.lepkek-madarak.hu/content/view/32/10/