is an uninhabited island in the Meldorf Bay, about off the

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of Dithmarschen in north Germany – about from the ''Trischendamm'' embankment. The island belongs to the municipality of Friedrichskoog and is only occupied from March to October by a bird warden from the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union or NABU. Otherwise it is out-of-bounds. Trischen originated about 400 years ago and moves about 3 m per month towards Büsum on the mainland. Trischen is visited by birds as a breeding and resting area. Up to 100,000 birds of some species, such as the shelduck,

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dunlin The dunlin (''Calidris alpina'') is a small wader, formerly sometimes separated with the other "stints" in the genus ''Erolia''. The English name is a dialect form of "dunling", first recorded in 1531–1532. It derives from ''dun'', "dull brown ...

, occur on the island and in the nearby Wadden Sea. Since 1985 it has been part of the core zone of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park.

References

* Landesamt für den Nationalpark Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer (Hrsg.): ''Trischen – Perle im Nationalpark''. Boyens, Heide 2000, . * Landesvermessungsamt Schleswig-Holstein, C. Degn und U. Muuß: Topographischer Atlas Schleswig-Holstein, Neumünster 1963, S.140f, ''Trischen - Werden und Vergehen einer Insel''. *

Hans Leip Hans Leip (22 September 1893 – 6 June 1983), was a German novelist, poet and playwright, best remembered as the lyricist of Lili Marleen. Leip was the son of a former sailor and harbour-worker at the port of Hamburg. He was educated there ...

: ''Die Insel Trischen''. Hamburg 1989 (herausgegeben von der Hans-Leip-Gesellschaft enthält das Buch Tagebuchaufzeichnungen und Farbbilder aus der Zeit der Künstlerkolonie). * Steffen Oppel: ''Natural Dynamics Shaping the Bird Community on an Island. Lessons for Large-scale Management from Trischen Island'' in "Wadden Sea Newsletter No. 30; 2004 -1
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* Herbert Rittlinger: ''Amphibische Reise zu verlorenen Inseln''. F. A. Brockhaus, 1958.

External links

Website of the island of Trischen

Tidal calendar

Portrait of Peter Todt bei mare

{{Authority control Frisian Islands Dithmarschen Uninhabited islands of Germany