Berlin Boar Year: What the Wild Boar Are Doing on Your Date, and Your Move
Pick a date and a time to see where Berlin's wild boar are in their year, when it gets dark that day and whether the NABU wildlife line is open, then run a three-step drill for what to do where you are.
Stay calm, leave the boar a way out, and keep the dog on the lead. The dial shows when that matters most.
Set a date and a time, read the dial, then run the three-step drill.
What the tool shows
Pick a date and a time. The dial shows where Berlin’s wild boar are in their year (the mating season, the mating peak and the months when striped young are about), the hours of daylight and darkness in Berlin that day, and whether the NABU wildlife line is staffed at that hour.
How to use it
Set the date and time, or press Right now for the current moment in Berlin.
Read the season line and the light line before you head out at dusk.
Run the three-step drill: where you are, what is in front of you, and whether you have a dog with you.
Follow the move it gives you, and note who to call if things go wrong.
Where the facts come from
The encounter, garden, feeding and road-accident advice comes from the Berlin Senate environment department, the Treptow-Köpenick district and the NABU Berlin flyer on wild boar. The mating season and the four-month pregnancy are from the NABU; the spring birth window and the striped-young months are worked out from those figures, so treat the edges as approximate. Daylight is calculated for central Berlin. In an emergency, call 110.