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Stefan Starzynski Nature reserve Kabacki forest

Adrian Grycuk · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

63% trees around it and 505 species recorded.

62Forestyas Score

ForestBirds

  • trees within 3 km63%
  • wild within 10 km65%
  • species recorded505
  • Altitude128 m

The forest around

63% 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 100%Built-up 0%Trees 59%Grassland 11%Water 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 26%Trees 38%Grassland 21%Wetland 0%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 12%Built-up 27%Trees 43%Grassland 18%Wetland 0%Water 3%Bare ground 1%Cropland 18%Built-up 17%63%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km59%
  • 3–6 km38%
  • 6–10 km43%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees59%
  • Grassland11%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up26%

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

505 species recorded.

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

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata55 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus47 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora43 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus42 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica33 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tansy
TansyTanacetum vulgare32 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lacy phacelia
Lacy phaceliaPhacelia tanacetifolia31 recordsCopyright by Curtis Clark, licensed as noted · CC BY-SA 2.5
Periwinkle
PeriwinkleVinca minor31 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea29 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Wild Privet
Wild PrivetLigustrum vulgare29 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · CC BY-SA 3.0
Horseradish
HorseradishArmoracia rusticana26 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
White Poplar
White PoplarPopulus alba21 recordsJakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

62out of 100

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

  • 63%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 65%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 505Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 128 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-1°-7°45 mm
  2. Feb1°-6°38 mm
  3. Mar7°-2°39 mm
  4. Apr14°3°41 mm
  5. May20°9°74 mm
  6. Jun24°13°67 mm
  7. Jul26°15°76 mm
  8. Aug26°14°62 mm
  9. Sep20°9°52 mm
  10. Oct13°4°49 mm
  11. Nov6°1°43 mm
  12. Dec1°-4°44 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Stefan Starzynski Nature reserve Kabacki forest.

Protected woodland area in Poland

Stefan Starzynski Nature reserve Kabacki forest is a forest in Poland.

Seen from space, 63% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 65% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

505 species have been recorded around it: 309 plants, 5 fungi, 182 birds and 9 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Greater Celandine and Small yellow balsam.

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

Las Kabacki w Warszawie 2017
Adrian Grycuk · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

Get there and walk

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.

Stefan Starzynski Nature reserve Kabacki forest 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

  • 10marked trails within 5 kmKabaty - Powsin, Warszawa Dawidy - Ciszyca, Powsin - Warszawa Dawidy and 7 more
  • 32named and notable trees within 6 kmDąb Hetman, Mieszko I, Dąb Jana Pawła II and 29 more
  • 128picnic sites within 4 km
  • 443shelters and huts within 6 kmWiata im. Antoniego Huczyńskiego "Dziarskiego Dziadka", Leniówka and 441 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmGórka Kazurka
  • 1,137car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmWawa Camp, Wok
  • 116places to stay within 10 kmAmerican House, Villa Jeziorki 71, Centrum Animacji Misyjnej ks. Pallotynów and 113 more
  • 81restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Stefan Starzynski Nature reserve Kabacki forest.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Szczęśliwicka Hill12 kmPękatka Hill99 m · 22 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Warsaw University Astronomical ObservatoryBortle 9 · 11 kmCentrum Nauki Kopernik in Warsaw - PlanetariumBortle 9 · 14 kmOstrowik ObservatoryBortle 4 · 25 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Elizeum in Warsaw13 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.

16 - Kabacki Forest viewed at sunset from the Escarpment Powsinska - 01
Jolanta Dyr · CC BY-SA 3.0
16 - Kabacki Forest viewed at sunset from the Escarpment Powsinska - 02
Jolanta Dyr · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bagienko środleśne Las Kabacki
Adrian Grycuk · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

Other forests nearby.

Stefan Starzynski Nature reserve Kabacki forest

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  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 63%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 505Species

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Poland · 39 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 68%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 136Species

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Puszcza Biała

Poland · 83 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 88%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 136Species

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Puszcza Piska Forest

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  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 116Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q9308795) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species21,403 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, Darkskyas, Cavernyas

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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