Scheduled tours
| Hungary: Birds, Nature and Rural Life
Duration: 7 days (6 nights)
Date: 26 April - 2 May 2008, 10 May - 16 May 2008, 24 May - 30 May 2008, 7 June - 13 June 2008
IBAs visited: 2, 3, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22, 33
Key species: Herons, Ferruginous Duck, Imperial Eagle, Saker, Red-footed Falcon, Great Bustard, Terns, Woodpeckers, Roller
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During this 7-days (6 nights) tour we will admire the architecture of Hungary's capital Budapest and will visit two smaller towns also famous of their beauty: Sárvár and Tata. We will also spend few days and nights in rural environments in small villages both in West-Hungary and on the Great Plain. We will visit four National Parks (Ferto-Hanság, Duna-Ipoly, Kiskunság and Hortobágy) offering us the opportunity to see a great variety of habitats and birds. During birding we try to see the most characteristics birds of Hungary, the Great Bustard, Saker, Imperial Eagle, Great White Egret, White Stork as well as other species like woodpeckers. Hungary is famous about its spas, so we won't miss to try out a thermal bath during our tour. And of course we will taste prize-winning Hungarian wines and will enjoy the Hungarian cuisine in a csárda "czarda".
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| From Kiskunság to Hortobágy through Zemplén
Duration: 4 days (3 nights)
Dates: 21-24 June 2008, 5-8 July 2008, 19-22 July 2008
IBAs visited: 22, 32, 33, 42
Key species: Herons, Ferruginous Duck, Imperial Eagle, Saker, Red-footed Falcon, Great Bustard, Terns, Woodpeckers, Pygmy Cormorant
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During this trip in the first day we will be birding in Kiskunsag a Pusta (steppe, grassland). Kiskunság is some 70 km South-East of Budapest and is the biggest habitat of Great Bustard which is our main target bird for the day. We will also visit fishponds where different gulls, herons, shanks and waders can be seen. On the second day we will be birding in Zemplén Mountains. Zemplén is an excellent habitat to see woodpeckers and owls as well as raptors. We spend two nights in a lovely small medieval town Tokaj, also very famous of its wine. On the third day we will visit the Lake Tisza, and reach Hortobágy the best marketed birding place in Hungary, where we will spend the fourth day with birding at the Great Fishpond system.
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These Saturdays we will devote to the most impressive and powerful birds the raptors. We will visit different reviers and feeding areas in order to see Imperial Eagle and Saker. If weather is favourable we will have a reasonable chance to see other raptor species like Honey Buzzard, White-tailed Eagle, Short-toed Eagle and Montagu's Harrier.
We have developed this one-day trip for birders who just like to walk in the nature without any rush for ticking rare species. On these Saturdays we will focus on three colourful species the Bee-eater, Hoopoe and the Kingfisher and will spend enough time to fully admire their beauty.
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Bespoke tours
| Module 1 - Danube Bend, Lake Öreg at Tata, Gerecse and Vértes Mountains
Duration: 2 days
IIBAs visited: 13, 14, 15, 17
Key species:Great White Egret, Middle Woodpecker, Black Woodpecker, Grey-headed Woodpecker, Rock Bunting, Penduline Tit, Imperial Eagle, Saker
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| Module 2 - Kiskunság
Duration: 1 day
IBA visited: 22
Key species: Raptor species, Great Bustard, Kentish Plover
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| Module 4 - Hortobágy
Duration: 3 days
IBA visited: 32
Key species:Lesser White-fronted Goose, Long-legged Buzzard, Saker, Common Crane, Pygmy Cormorant, herons and ibises, Ferruginous Duck, Stone Curlew
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| Module 5 - Lake Fertő, Hanság
Duration: 1day
IBAs visited: 2, 3
Key species: all herons, Red-crested Pochard, Ferruginous Duck, Great Bustard, Corncrake, Mediterranean Gull, Moustached Warbler, Savi's Grasshopper and River Warblers, Lesser Grey Shrike
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| Module 6 - Rétszilas
Duration: 1day
IBAs visited: 11
Key species: Little Bittern, Squacco Heron, Purple Heron, Ferrugineous Duck, Mediterranean Gull, Whiskered and Black Tern, Bearded Tit, Penduline Tit
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