Welcome to the nature park
Kalvebod Common offers endless skies and wide vistas, rare birds, a host of insects and protected amphibians, droves of deer and grazing cattle and sheep.
The big skies and panoramic vistas stretch as far as the eye can see, and the roads are as straight as arrows – evidence of the fact that this area was once used as a military training facility. The flat landscape is interrupted only by a few areas of high ground, which also date from the military era.
A large number of bird species, many of them rare, including the white-tailed eagle, the beautiful blue hawk and the world’s fastest animal, the peregrine falcon, are to be found here. This bird of prey has developed a special hunting technique that allows it to plummet from the sky towards its quarry at over 300 kilometres per hour.
There are also about 400 fallow deer. The canals and dykes are home to fish, frogs and the largest snake found in Denmark, the peaceful and (for humans) harmless grass snake.
A large number of insect species also flourish here.