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 сива чапја .
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 среден клукајдрвец, голем клукајдрвец, зелен клукајдрвец, црн клукајдрвец and мал клукајдрвец . But also сивоглав клукајдрвец occurs and even сириски клукајдрвец and белогрб клукајдрвец were allready observed. Along with all those woodpeckers comes a variety of cavity-nesting birds as for instance Tits and обичен сколовранец. In two groups of old plane trees exist quite sizeable breeding-colonies of чавка. Other regularly occuring species during breeding season are кукавица, горски гулаб and саријазма.
Year round голем северен нуркач, сива чапја, голем корморан andрибарче can be observed.
During winter the park gives home to голема бела чапја, цуцулест кожувар, ушест був and a lot of singing birds such as different species of thrushes or finches.
Details
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.

