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Shallow bay which is part of the larger Sundsvall bay. Its large coastal meadows and bird cobs make it an excellent place for birding.
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. knölsvan, sångsvan, salskrake, gräsand, storskrake, knipa, Gråtrut, fiskmås and vigg are the common seafowl during this period. Among other birds grågås, gråhäger, Varfågel, and havsörn are uncommon. Wintering woodpeckers like gråspett, Gröngöling, and tretåig hackspett can be found most years. Some years sjöorre, småskrake, alfågel, svärta, brunand and gråhäger also winter. In the forest most of common forest birds can be found. During invasions tallbit and bändelkorsnäbb can be found.
During spring most of the previously mentioned waterfowl become more common and in March many geese arrive. Larger amounts of grågås (100 at most), and kanadagås (100 at most) can be found. Often along it smaller amounts of vitkindad gås and sometimes tajgasädgås, bläsgås, and even fjällgås (only very rarley). Among water fowl, sångsvan (at most 300), knipa (at most 300), and Kricka (at most 90) along with smaller amounts of svärta, ejder, småskrake, storskrake, salskrake, gräsand, Skedand and bläsand. Uncommon ducks in the area are snatterand, stjärtand, and årta.
During spring many waders can be found. Most common among these are rödbena, grönbena, gluttsnäppa, mindre strandpipare, morkulla, drillsnäppa, strandskata, skogssnäppa, storspov, större strandpipare and brushane. More rarely myrspov, småspov, ljungpipare svartsnäppa, kärrsnäppa and mosnäppa can be found. During perfect weather even kustsnäppa, sandlöpare, kustsnäppa, småsnäppa, myrsnäppa or spovsnäppa can be found although these are more common during autumn (while still being very rare).
During this period common terns (silvertärna, fisktärna, skräntärna), common gulls (Gråtrut, havstrut, silltrut, fiskmås and skrattmås) and sometimes the rare dvärgmås is found. At bergafjärden notable breeding birds are skäggdopping (some years, rare), ejder, svärta, vitkindad gås, tornfalk, svarthakedopping, skräntärna, silvertärna and fisktärna. 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 myrsnäppa are more common during autumn than spring. Most waders are found during august.
As there is a large camping in the area, parking and acessibility is quite easy. Click on the P in the map for directions.
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