Animal life
In the big forest complexes of the
Park we can easily come across deer, roe deer, wild boar, fox, squirrels
(black and red variety) and small rodents. Among not so easily spotted
because of nocturnal activity are badger, pine marten, weasel, stoad and
fitchet. As for insectivora mammals hedgehog is rather commonly met, which
is not the case with shrews. The characteristic environment of cracks and
crevices of sandstones makes an ideal habitat for a number of bats. The most
precious element of Park's mammal fauna are small, squirrel-like nocturnal
animals, living mainly in broadleaf and mixed forests: hazel dormouse, fat
dormouse and dormouse. In the neighbourhood of the Polish-Czech border there
is refuge of muflon - mountain sheep brought form Corsica and acclimatized in
the Sudeten. Among forest birds we can meet nutcracker, common crossbill,
siskin, mishle trush, black woodpecker, black-naped green woodpecker,
sparrowhawk and stock dove. Very rarely one can come across black stork,
hazel grouse, woodcock, hobby, honey buzzard and characteristic for the
taiga region pigmy owl and Tengmalm's owl. Rocks are the nesting places of
eagle owl, kestrel, raven, nuthatch and black redstart whereas the meadows
make a nesting place for meadow pipit, skylark, whinchat and rare in Europe -
quail and corncrake. Among birds connected with water dipper and grey wagtail
catch our attention. Among reptiles common in Poland on the territory of the
Park we can meet common viper, grass snake, sand lizard and slow worm. As for
rare amphibians salamander, smooth newt and alpine newt can be sometimes
spotted. The world of insects is still hardly investigated, but what attracts
attention is rich in species long-horned beetles family and protected species
of Carabidae family. Very interesting are the snow insects and arachnids of
highmoor peatbogs and cold wet sandstone cracks.
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