www.naturetrek.co.uk For the 10th year running Naturetrek are offering an 8-day birdwatching tour focusing on two of Europe's most unique and precious habitats, the famous Bialowieza Forest and Biebrza Marshes. Departs London 6th May 2006.
Poland stands alone as the last guardian of Europe’s finest pristine forests and natural marshlands, combining with its numerous lakes, the country offers some of the Continent’s very best birdwatching and a visit in the spring is especially rewarding. A journey through the peaceful rural landscape in the east of the country is truly a step back into the past. Farmers still cultivate their crops in strips, tend their fields with horse drawn ploughs and conduct their business just as they have done for generations. Naturetrek’s 8-day tour focuses on two principal sites in the east of the country. Four nights are spent at the UNESCO World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve of Bialowieza Forest where the drumming of no less than eight species of woodpeckers should fill the air – an impressive tally to rival any site in Europe! The tour then heads north-west to the vast mosaic of marshes, ponds, wet meadows, reedbeds and alder woodlands that make up Biebrza marshes. The marshes extend along the meandering River Biebrza between the towns of Augustow and Lomza, making up the largest continuous expanse of natural marshland left in Europe. Avian highlights here include the opportunity to see all three European species of Snipe – Great, Common and Jack, White-winged Black Tern and Aquatic Warbler. Larger mammals include Elk that roam in abundance amongst the marshes.
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