National Park Neusiedler See Seewinkel

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National Park Neusiedler See - Seewinkel
Schneider Christine
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Presentation

• General information
• Location
• The Lake Neusiedl
• The Seewinkel
• Animals

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General information

• Westernmost National Park
• Biggest steppe lake
• Size 140 km2, 80 km2 lie in Austria
• Annual precipitation less than 600 mm

WWF Panda Warengesellschaft, 1998
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The Lake Neusiedl

• Size 321 km2
• Greatest depth is 2 meters
• 36 kilometers long
• Maximal width is 12 kilometers
• Salinity (average 1200 mg/l)
• More than the half of the lake is covered with
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The lake Neusiedl with the Leitha Mountains
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Photos Nationalparkgesellschaft Neusiedler
See-Seewinkel, 1998
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The Seewinkel

• 60 black and white Lacken
• Shallow, sometimes dry out
• Salty places patches of crystallized salt
• Lange Lacke is the most famous one

Nationalparkgesellschaft Neusiedler
See-Seewinkel, 1998
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Private photograph
White patches of crystallized salt
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Animals

• Platalea leucorodia (Spoonbill)
• Recurvirostra avosetta (Avocet)
• Sterna hirundo
• Tringa totanus (Redshank)
• Anas clypeata
• Phalacrocorax carbo (Cormorant)
• Limosa limosa (Black tailed Godwit)
• Cicona cicona (White stork)
• Merops apiaster (Bee eater)

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• Citellus citellus
• Mantis religiosa
• Mares eversmanni
• Tarantula
• Aythya nyroca
• Ixobrychus minutus (Little bittern)
• Podiceps cristatus
• Vanellus vanellus (Lapwing)
• Gallinago gallinago (Snipe)