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Hungarianbirdwatching.com is an association of young, enthusiastic birders. We organise birding tours and birdwatching holidays in Hungary and in Budapest. Our birding tours are higly customised to your needs. During our birding trips to Hortobágy, Lake Fertő, Kiskunság, Lake Tisza and other Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Hungary you have a reasonable chance to to see Great Bustard, Saker, Imperial Eagle, Aquatic Warbler, Lesser White-fronted Goose, Pygmy Cormorant, etc. We operate with small groups, and in our trips you will also have the opportunity to taste good Hungarian wine and explore the cultural heritages of Hungary. |
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Home This is the opening page of Hungarianbirdwatching.com. It contains birding news and general information on the site and our services... |
 | Birdwatching This site contains our thougts on ethical birwatching, the Birdwatchers' Code of Conduct as well as the American Birding Association's Principles of Birding Ethics... |
 | Hungarian Bird Areas This site contains the links to the descriptions of the 43 Important Bird Areas (IBA) of Hungary. You can jump to the IBAs by using this selector...
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 | Birds in Hungary In Hungary there are 390 species. This site shortly describes the 52 IBA-qualifying birds and contains information on the Hungarian population. You can jump to the IBAs-qualifying birds by using this selector...
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 | Birding tours This site contains the description of our Bespoke and Scheduled tours. We operate with small groups and tours are also fine-tuned to the need of the group...
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 | Guides Hungarianbirdwatching.com operates with very experienced guides, who have a convincing track record in leading birding tours. All guides speak English and are specialised to certain areas and species... |
 | Gallery This site contains the wonderful paintings of Szabolcs Kókay, one of the most respected bird illustrators in Hungary as well as photos of some of our guests... |
 | Links From this page you can easily reach other informative bird, birding and nature sites... |
| Contact us Here you find our contact details... |
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| E-mail spam, also known as junk e-mail has steadily, even exponentially grown since the early 1990s to several billion messages a day. Spam has frustrated, confused, and annoyed e-mail users. The total volume of spam (over 100 billion emails per day as of April 2008) has leveled off slightly in recent years, and is no longer growing exponentially. The amount received by most e-mail users has decreased, mostly because of better filtering. Unfortunately spam filters also tend to block business related messages as well. We at Hungarianbirdwatching.com many times realise, that our messages are blocked. So, if you have not received answer from us within 72 hrs, very likely our mail is blocked and we are not aware of it. In that case, please, write us again. Please, also put our domain and mails to your safe sender list. |
Red-footed Falcon pair by Csaba Lóki
Rook portrait by Csaba Lóki
| BirdLife Hungary has launched again its annual Bird of the Year campaign. However, 2009 is an irregular year, as two birds have been elected. Besides the Red-footed Falcon the second one is the Rook, which plays a key role in the conservation of the former one. The Red-footed Falcon is the only raptor species of the region that breeds in colonies and in solitary nests as well. As other falco species, they occupy empty nests, mainly built by Rooks. Evidently Rook has a very important role in the life cycle of the Red-footed Falcon since the rookeries provide the most important colonial nesting facilities for this species. Moreover colonially nesting falcons have a better breeding success than solitary nesting pairs. Unfortunately the ruthless persecution of the rooks had caused a dramatic decline in population numbers: in 1980 nearly 255 000 pairs were recorded, while maximum 35 000 pairs breed today in Hungary. You find more information on the Red-footed Falcon conservation LIFE project here…. You also find excellent photos of the falcon, its habitat and the enthusiastic team in the Gallery of the well designed website |
Black Grouse by Bence Máté
| The Hungarian Nature Photographer of the Year 2008 competition was sponsored by Béres Pharmaceuticals. The overall winner of the competition was Bence Máté, the young talented wildlife photographer. You find the most breathtaking photos in pdf format here (4.9MB). For more pictures, visit the page of NaturArt, the organiser of the competition. To see the best pictures of the bird category visit the website Fotoklikk.hu . |
| See our 2009 birding tours... From today you can book your birding tours at Hungarianbirdwatching.com. For more information on our Scheduled and Personalised tours, click here. For April, the start of the birding season we have two nice offers. The 4-day Bükk, Zemplén tour offers us the opportunity to see most European Woodpeckers and Ural Owl. For those who are interested in Birds, nature and rural life (as well as thermal spas and Hungarian wines) we have our wonderful program, which meets the requirements of birders and non-birders as well. |
Slaughtered protected birds confiscated by VPOP in September
| Hungarian customs (VPOP) officers discovered carcasses of more than 300 protected birds during the routine search of an Italian car near to the Romanian border-crossing end of October. Among the slaughtered birds dozens of Sky- and Crested Larks, Tree Sparrows, Corn Buntings, Linnets, Meadow-, Red-throated- and Water Pipits were found. Unfortunately it’s not unique news, almost every month Hungarian customs officials make a similar announcement. Discovered attempts are just the peak of an iceberg… |
| We have renewed our Gallery with new watercolors and acrylics paintings of Szabolcs Kókay the well-known Hungarian bird illustrator. The Gallery also encompasses the bird photos of Lars-Olof Johansson and Vadim Davydov, who took their photos in Kiskunság in 2006 and 2007 respectively. |
Bird joke
At the court They turned to each other in glee, and congratulated each other... "On average, he's dead!", they cried! The mallard continued his migration. Windshield Test It seems the United States' FAA has a unique device for testing windshield strength on airplanes. It is a gun that fires a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at about the same speed the plane flies. The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the impact, it could survive a real collision with a bird during flight. The British wanted to test the device on a new highspeed locomotive they are developing, so they borrowed the FAA's chicken launcher, loaded a chicken, and fired. The bird not only shattered the windshield, but also went through the engineer's chair, broke an instrument panel and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine cab. The stunned Brits asked the FAA to re-check the procedure to see if they had missed something. The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and came back with just one recommendation. "Thaw the bird out first." |
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