The 2016 Hungary, Slovakia & Transylvania GT has finished with great success again!
Our longest and most popular birding tour, the Hungary, Slovakia Transylvania GT has ended and yet again it was a remarkable tour with a lots of tour highlights and fantastic birding in Eastern Europe! The report will be available soon but do not hesitate to book your place on this amazing tour for 2017!
Trip highlights from the 2016 Grand Tour:
– 228 species recorded (including 3 heard-only)
– 10 species of woodpeckers (with White-backed and Three-toed as the highlights)
– 9 species of owls recorded (the Tengmalm's Owl was heard only)
– unforgettable mega views of Pygmy Owl
– 5 species of grebes (the Slavonian a scarce passage migrant in Hungary)
– 16 species of raptors (including the mighty Saker Falcon)
– magnicifent views of all the 3 marsh terns
– huge male Great Bustard
– 3 species of snipes in the same plot
– mega views of the shy Nutcracker
– 17 species of warblers
– Wallcreeper on the ground
– 4 species of flycatchers
– good selection of scarce birds (Broad-billed Sandpiper, Black-winged Pratincole, Gull-billed Tern, Red-rumped Swallow, Sombre Tit etc.)
Wallcreeper is allways a great bird to see (Photo: János Oláh).
Sombre Tit is now also possible on this tour (Photo: János Oláh).
Sakertour team