Federsee Nature Reserve

The Federsee near Bad Buchau, a town west of Biberach an der Riß in Upper Swabia, is the largest contiguous moorland in southwest Germany at 33 km.265 species of birds live in the Federsee area, including 107 breeding bird species. Over 200 breeding pairs of Whinchats and 18 breeding pairs of Marsh Harriers are worth mentioning in themselves. A museum, the Federsee Museum, and a NABU center provide information about the importance and history of the moor. The Federsee area is a bird sanctuary under the European Flora-Fauna-Habitat Directive and part of the European Natura 2000 biotope network.The Federsee basin is known as an archaeological site with settlement remains, especially from the Late Neolithic and Bronze Ages or Urnfield periods.