Kányavári Island and the ‘Great crested grebe’ Educational Pathway (Kányavári-sziget és a Búbos vöcsök tanösvény)

The Kányavári Island is a protected wetland habitat within Kis-Balaton (Kis-Balaton) area, a part of Balaton Uplands Natural Park. The island and its flora and fauna are of outstanding beauty, and can be approached via a specially structured timber bridge (for disabled and families with children there is a small ferry). On the island you can follow a nearly 2 km long educational path named after the great crested grebe (búbos vöcsök), a typical inhabitant of the region.  The footpath – with its information points – aims to introduce the rich bird life of the area as well as the bat population (there are built bat holes to enhance their breeding).

Indigenous species are the great crested grebe of course but you will find great egrets (nagykócsag), cormorants (kormorán), Eurasian spoonbills (kanalasgém), squacco herons (üstökösgém), purple herons (vörös gém), grey herons (szürke gém), Eurasian coots (szárcsa), great reed warblers (nádirigó) and moustached warblers (fülemüle sitke). Up to now 250 bird species have been registered in this area, 150 of which also breed here.

Practical information:
Getting there is simple from the road between Sármellék and Balatonmagyaród.
The island and the educational path can be visited free of charge and without a guide.
Web: www.kisbalaton.hu/kanyavar_island_program.html