page_title: Meißendorf Lakes and Bannetze Moor
section_title: Visiting birds
hierarchical_section_title: Meißendorf Lakes and Bannetze Moor / Geography, fauna and flora / Visiting birds
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Singschwäne, Wintergäste a. d. Tundra Whooper Swans, winter visitors to Meißendorf Lakes from the tundra. Lower Saxony, Germany.
context_page_description: The Meißendorf Lakes and Bannetze Moor are a nature reserve and bird reserve of national importance on the edge of the Lüneburg Heath in the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany.
  The special importance of this nature reserve is underlined by its recognition as a major federal nature reserve project.
  The area derives its name from the nearby villages of Meißendorf and Bannetze. The lakes were formerly a network of ponds established for fish-farming.
context_section_description: Amongst the visiting birds are many species that are also on the Red List:
  Osprey, common sandpiper, ruff, redshank, black stork, goosander and  dunlin. Others include: Siskin, rock pipit, Bewick's swan, Whooper swan, hen harrier, little ringed plover, common snipe, smew, common gull, wigeon, pintail, black tern, crossbill and spotted redshank.
caption: Whooper swans, winter guests from the tundra
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