Category: Birdwatching

The Alps are a paradise for birdwatchers: golden eagles and bearded vultures soar along the ridges, alpine choughs circle the peaks, wallcreepers dart across the rock faces. Here you find the best observation areas, with respect for breeding sites and enough distance.

Swiss National Park

The oldest national park in the Alps, established 1914

Founded in 1914, the Swiss National Park in the Engadin is the oldest national park in the Alps and a strict total reserve: nature is left entirely to itself, and visitors may not leave the marked trails. On around 170 km² live ibex, chamois, red deer, marmots and bearded vultures….

Address Engadine/Val Müstair, centred on Zernez, Grisons

Web Schweizerischer Nationalpark

Categories Attractions & Sights Wildlife Watching Birdwatching Hiking & Mountain Tours

Watzmann

2,713 m – Germany’s third-highest peak and its legendary east face

At 2,713 m the Watzmann is Germany's third-highest mountain and at the same time one of its most legendary. Its distinctive profile with the Hocheck, Mittelspitze and Südspitze, the so-called ‚Watzmann children‘, shapes the panorama above the Königssee. Tours on the Watzmann Watzmannhaus (1,930 m): The classic approach from Wimbach/Ramsau…

Address Watzmann massif, 83471 Schönau am Königssee

Categories Peaks & Mountains Climbing & Mountaineering Birdwatching Hiking & Mountain Tours

Wildlife watching in the Berchtesgaden National Park

Golden eagle, bearded vulture, chamois and marmot in Germany’s only Alpine national park

Founded in 1978, the Berchtesgaden National Park is Germany's only national park in the Alps, and one of the best places in the country to watch large wild animals in the wild. Anyone who brings time, patience and good binoculars has a realistic chance of encountering species that have long…

Address National park administration, Doktorberg 6, 83471 Berchtesgaden

Web Nationalpark Berchtesgaden

Categories Wildlife Watching Birdwatching