When the days get shorter in autumn, the Bislicher Insel near Xanten is transformed into an impressive spectacle of nature: thousands of wild geese from northern Europe and Siberia stop off here to spend the winter in the protected floodplain landscape of the Lower Rhine. The nature reserve is considered one of the most important wintering areas for Arctic wild geese in Germany.
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