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Description
Bergafjärden consists of a large coastal meadow in the middle and higher hill/mountainous areas to the north and south. Most of the coastal meadow has been turned into a large beach for tourists but there are parts untouched in the northern part of the bay. Over the years 207 species have been recorded. During winter ice-free periods are often birdrich although the shallow waters often makes it frozen during winters. labod grbec, labod pevec, mali žagar, mlakarica, veliki žagar, zvonec, srebrni galeb, sivi galeb and čopasta črnica are the common seafowl during this period. Among other birds siva gos, siva čaplja, veliki srakoper, and belorepec are uncommon. Wintering woodpeckers like pivka, zelena žolna, and triprsti detel can be found most years. Some years crna raca, srednji žagar, zimska raca, beloliska, sivka and siva čaplja also winter. In the forest most of common forest birds can be found. During invasions smrekov kalin and beloperuti krivokljun can be found.
During spring most of the previously mentioned waterfowl become more common and in March many geese arrive. Larger amounts of siva gos (100 at most), and kanadska gos (100 at most) can be found. Often along it smaller amounts of belolična gos and sometimes njivska gos, beločela gos, and even mala gos (only very rarley). Among water fowl, labod pevec (at most 300), zvonec (at most 300), and kreheljc (at most 90) along with smaller amounts of beloliska, gaga, srednji žagar, veliki žagar, mali žagar, mlakarica, žličarica and žvižgavka. Uncommon ducks in the area are konopnica, dolgorepa raca, and reglja.
During spring many waders can be found. Most common among these are rdečenogi martinec, močvirski martinec, zelenonogi martinec, mali deževnik, sloka, mali martinec, školjkarica, pikasti martinec, veliki škurh, komatni deževnik and togotnik. More rarely progastorepi kljunač, mali škurh, zlata prosenka črni martinec, spremenljivi prodnik and Temminckov prodnik can be found. During perfect weather even veliki prodnik, peščenec, veliki prodnik, mali prodnik, ploskokljunec or srpokljuni prodnik can be found although these are more common during autumn (while still being very rare).
During this period common terns (polarna čigra, navadna čigra, kaspijska čigra), common gulls (srebrni galeb, veliki galeb, rjavi galeb, sivi galeb and rečni galeb) and sometimes the rare mali galeb is found. At bergafjärden notable breeding birds are čopasti ponirek (some years, rare), gaga, beloliska, belolična gos, navadna postovka, zlatouhi ponirek, kaspijska čigra, polarna čigra and navadna čigra. During early autumn large amounts of waterfowl, geese and waders can be found although these are often more numerous than in spring and arctic waders like ploskokljunec are more common during autumn than spring. Most waders are found during august.
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As there is a large camping in the area, parking and acessibility is quite easy. Click on the P in the map for directions.