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Description
Old Laxenburg Castle became a Habsburg possession in 1333. After 1780, the castle garden was rearranged as an English landscape garden. It contains an artificial pond with several partly not accessible islands. One island accommodates a huge colony of Fiskehejre .
There are a lot of old trees and several species of woodpecker can easily be found. Most resident species have short flight distances. Common are Mellemflagspætte, Stor Flagspætte, Grønspætte, Sortspætte and Lille Flagspætte . But also Gråspætte occurs and even Syrisk Flagspætte and Hvidrygget Flagspætte were allready observed. Along with all those woodpeckers comes a variety of cavity-nesting birds as for instance Tits and Stær. In two groups of old plane trees exist quite sizeable breeding-colonies of Allike. Other regularly occuring species during breeding season are Gøg, Huldue and Pirol.
Year round Stor Skallesluger, Fiskehejre, Skarv andIsfugl can be observed.
During winter the park gives home to Sølvhejre, Troldand, Skovhornugle and a lot of singing birds such as different species of thrushes or finches.
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Access
You can get there by bus from Vienna or by car. There are free parking lots just outside the main entrance. During working-hours a small entrance-fee is to be paid. Currently it is opened from 7 am to 3 pm.