Schneider Christine General information Location The Lake Neusiedl

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üGeneral information üLocation üThe Lake Neusiedl üThe Seewinkel üAnimals

• Westernmost National Park • Biggest steppe lake • Size: 140 km 2, 80 km 2 lie in Austria • Annual precipitation less than 600 mm WWF Panda Warengesellschaft, 1998

• Size: 321 km 2 • Greatest depth is 2 meters • 36 kilometers long • Maximal width is 12 kilometers • Salinity (average 1200 mg/l) • More than the half of the lake is covered with reed

The lake Neusiedl with the Leitha Mountains Reed Photos: Nationalparkgesellschaft Neusiedler See-Seewinkel, 1998

• ~60 ”black” and ”white” ”Lacken” • Shallow, sometimes dry out Nationalparkgesellschaft Neusiedler See-Seewinkel, 1998 • Salty places –patches of crystallized salt • “Lange Lacke” is the most famous one

Private photograph White patches of crystallized salt

üPlatalea leucorodia (Spoonbill) üRecurvirostra avosetta (Avocet) üSterna hirundo üTringa totanus (Redshank) üAnas clypeata üPhalacrocorax carbo (Cormorant) üLimosa limosa (Black tailed Godwit) üCicona cicona (White stork) üMerops apiaster (Bee eater)

üCitellus citellus üMantis religiosa üMares eversmanni üTarantula üAythya nyroca üIxobrychus minutus (Little bittern) üPodiceps cristatus üVanellus vanellus (Lapwing) üGallinago gallinago (Snipe)