Kecsker-puszta Nature Conservation Area

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Territory of the protected area: 1 226 hectares.
Location: The protected area is situated between Kisújszállás and Karcag to the northeast of the railway station of Karcagi-puszta.
Visitors: Free of access for visitors except for nesting period.
Management: Directorate of the Hortobágy National Park

This area (situated outside the Hortobágy National Park between Kunmadaras, Kunhegyes and Karcag) desolate for the first sight, hides real beauties for those interested in the world of the Alföld pusztas, alkali meadows, marshy swampy areas and fishponds – the landscape, the life-style of man living here, the rich flora and fauna. Although there are agricultural fields in the area, there is everything here which a little more to the east is highly protected area: alkali puszta lawns, larger and smaller patches of (Camphorosmetum annuae), marsh meadows, boggy areas and fishponds and storage-lakes with open water lined with reeds. The protected Kecsker storage-lake and the watery meadows and swampy patches stretching behind it, the meadows generally used for grazing sheep, agricultural fields and small patches of forests in pusztas are located in the south of this more than two hundred square km area. The flora and fauna of the area recalls the Hortobágy: the common comfrey, the Michaelmas-daisy, the yarrow (Achillea setacea), the bird's foot-trefoil, the fleabane, the Roman wormwood, the camphor (Camphorosma annua) and many other protected plants grow in the wet areas and in the puszta grass associations.
Several species of ducks, little egrets, great white herons, night herons, common herons, marsh harriers and hosts of reed songbirds live on the fish-ponds and in the vicinity. The avifauna of the puszta is characterised by such rarities as the lapwing, black-tailed godwit, the pratincole or the stone curlew. Partridges and cautious great bustards live in the agricultural fields – visitors can admire them with the aid of binocculars without disturbing them.

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