Biebrza, Poland
The Biebrza marshes are a complex series of habitats located in the Biebrza river valley. The area encompasses river channels, lakes, extensive marshes, fenland, reed beds, peat bogs and fields and meadows with woods and forests on higher ground. The Biebrza National Park, which covers much of the area, is the largest of Poland’s 23 National Parks and was created in 1993. Covering a total area of 228 square miles, it protects the vast and relatively untouched habitats with their unique variety of several communities of plants and species of wetland birds and mammals.
Date: 19th May 2013
Location: view from Burzyn, Biebrza area, Poland
Date: 19th May 2013
Location: view from Burzyn, Biebrza area, Poland
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Also in: North east Poland - May 2013
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By alex s-czerny: Cows in Burzyn area (high shore of Biebrza river) used to be trained to swim springtime accross river to rich pastures there, only to swim back in the fall. A mile down river from this spot on the opposite shorey on mound protruding from the bogs till WWI remained an old manor house where Maria Sklodowska (then 17) spend happy and careless summer among other youth.