Nature
The Upper Danube Nature Reserve is home to a varied and unique fauna and flora. You can find regions of steppe heath and alpine flora, gully vegetation and wooded meadows.
You can obtain more information on this topic from the ‚House of Nature‘, literature, exhibitions, guided walking and horse tours and much more. Well informed and with an open mind you can discover both rare animals (such as the kingfisher, peregrine falcon, eagle owl and chamoix) and plants which are endangered because only this area still offers them an appropriate habitat.
Peregrine Falcon
Distribution: Can be found in most parts of the world - Europe, Asia, Russia, Sibiria, Aleutian Islands, India, Sri Lanka, Southern China, Japan, Africa, the Mediterranean, South of the Sahara to South Africa, Chile, Fireland, Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and Australia except the South West and
Habitat: Not particularly specialised, however, two conditions must be met. Firstly, plenty of food and secondly a secure nesting ground (particularly in cliffs). The peregrine falcon requires open spaces for hunting. It avoids large, enclosed forests.
Hunting: It catches almost exclusively birds in flight and can reach speeds of up to 380km/h. It prefers hunting early in the morning or in the evening.
Food: Almost exclusively other birds, from kinglets to grey herons.
Reproduction: Monogamous and mates for life; in Central Europe 3 to 4 eggs are laid between March and April which are being incubated for 29 to 32 days. The young leave the nest after 35 to 42 days.
Numbers: For centuries the peregrine has been hunted extensively to the point where in
Source: Adlerwarte Berlebeck