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Peerdsbos

Queeste · CC BY-SA 4.0

72% trees around it and 1,466 species recorded.

71Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km72%
  • wild within 10 km68%
  • species recorded1,466

The forest around

72% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 94%Grassland 4%Built-up 2%Trees 69%Grassland 8%Water 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 21%Trees 55%Grassland 10%Water 2%Cropland 2%Built-up 30%Trees 46%Grassland 15%Wetland 0%Water 6%Bare ground 0%Cropland 7%Built-up 26%72%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km69%
  • 3–6 km55%
  • 6–10 km46%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees69%
  • Grassland8%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up21%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

1,466 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea462 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Woodland germander
Woodland germanderTeucrium scorodonia442 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum356 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia349 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Early scurvygrass
Early scurvygrassCochlearia danica347 recordsUser:Strobilomyces · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major339 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense338 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens335 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ribwort plantain
Ribwort plantainPlantago lanceolata318 recordssannse · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hard Fern
Hard FernStruthiopteris spicant314 recordsSABENCIA Guillermo César Ruiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Annual Meadow Grass
Annual Meadow GrassPoa annua312 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 10:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Little mouse-ear chickweed
Little mouse-ear chickweedStellaria media310 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

71out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 72%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 68%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,466Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan5°1°72 mm
  2. Feb6°0°62 mm
  3. Mar10°2°55 mm
  4. Apr14°5°37 mm
  5. May18°9°58 mm
  6. Jun21°12°62 mm
  7. Jul23°14°77 mm
  8. Aug23°14°81 mm
  9. Sep20°11°61 mm
  10. Oct15°8°69 mm
  11. Nov10°5°73 mm
  12. Dec6°2°81 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Peerdsbos.

Natural landscape in Belgium

Peerdsbos is a forest in Belgium.

Seen from space, 72% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 68% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,466 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 220 fungi, 213 birds and 33 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ground-ivy, Woodland germander and Bracken.

The best time to walk is from May to June and in September.

Peerdsbos
Queeste · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Sporthal centrum Brasschaatcampsite · 1.8 km · 6 within 10 km
  • B&B Couche Coucheplace to stay · 7.3 km · 143 within 10 km
  • Brasschaatnearest town · 1.9 km in a straight line
  • Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) (ANR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 9 km in a straight lineCar hire at BRU airport (Zaventem)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Peerdsbos seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 140marked trails within 5 kmAntverpiapad, Vriesdonkpad, Peerdsbospad and 137 more
  • 4named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 20picnic sites within 4 km
  • 305shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmDienst Toerisme Brasschaat, Toerisme Voorkempen
  • 188car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmSporthal centrum Brasschaat, City Camping Antwerp, Camping Het Veen and 3 more
  • 143places to stay within 10 kmB&B Couche Couche, Abhostel, Dennenhof and 140 more
  • 62restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Peerdsbos.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas9 mountains within 25 km
Hoogenberg12 kmReeberg13 kmTooverberg14 kmKraaienberg14 kmPilberg19 kmRijzendeweg22 kmBossestraat22 kmVossenweg25 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
De Zoom - Kalmthoutse Heide257 species · 15 kmDe Putten328 species · 19 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Park Brasschaat ingang Peerdsbos
Queeste · CC BY-SA 4.0
Peerdsbos1
Skaldis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Peerdsbos, beschutte rustplaats - 215467 - onroerenderfgoed
De Borgher, Marc · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Peerdsbos

Belgium

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 1,466Species

Sonian Forest

Belgium · 56 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 1,917Species

See the guide

Meerdaal

Belgium · 54 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 55%Wild
  • 1,500Species

See the guide

Hertogenwald

Belgium · 134 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 593Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2522338) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species224,584 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Birdyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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