Heuwiese

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The hay meadow is an uninhabited German Baltic Sea island and is about two kilometers south of Ummanz or west of Rügen.

It has a maximum extension of 900 meters ( in a northwest-southeast direction) and is about 14 acres in size. The slightly over 1 meter high bird sanctuary island is located in the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park.

The island is a typical salt grasslands of the Western Pomeranian Bodden coast and evolved from low-tide Anlandungsgebieten (wind cotton ). The resulting surfaces are only a few centimeters above sea level and are flooded irregularly.

The name of the island has by its original use as pasture. Since the mid 19th century it is also known as a sea bird colony and in 1939 was made ​​official as a breeding ground for shorebirds under protection. In 2007, brooded about 15 different types (among four seagulls and several species of duck ) on the hay meadow.

Particularly interesting are the breeding on the island of cormorants build tall nests on the ground than tree-nesting on the island.