Gray heron colony near Harsewinkel

Gray heron colony near Harsewinkel IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Gray heron colony near Harsewinkel
location	North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
surface	4.0905 ha
WDPA ID	389750
Geographical location	51 ° 58 '  N , 8 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '42 "  N , 8 ° 10' 4"  E
Setup date	2007
administration	Lower landscape authority of the Gütersloh district

The gray heron colony near Harsewinkel is about 1 km west of Harsewinkel and about 100 m south of the Ems in the Gütersloh district . Since 2007, and initially limited to the year 2027, the approximately 4- hectare site has been designated as a nature reserve.

The area serves to preserve, develop and restore important habitats for rare and endangered regionally typical animal and plant species. In particular, there are breeding grounds for gray herons in the swamp and swamp forests that are found here, which surround a near-natural still water . According to the avifaunistic report of the city of Harsewinkel, a total of 42 occupied nests with numerous young birds were to be found in 2014. The first eyries were established by the herons in 1965.

A pair of eagle owls and kingfishers also breed in the gray heron colony.

Web links

• Nature reserve “Gray Heron Colony near Harsewinkel” (GT-011) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia