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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 wines 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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Roller by Vadim Davydov
| See our 2010 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. |
Birds of the Year 2010 | BirdLife Hungary has launched again its annual Bird of the Year campaign. In 2010 the Sand Martin, Barn Swallow and the Common House Martin have been elected. Based on 1999-2002 data the Barn Swallow has the biggest population in Hungary with 220-320 thousand pairs, while House Martin and Sand Martin have 100-200 thousand and 140-200 thousand pairs respectively. However according to recent estimates the decrease of the population of the Sand Martin can reach up to 20% per year, while the population of the House Martin and Barn Swallow has been decreesing by 5-7% annually. MME Birdlife Hungary's has launched a long-term swallow protection program as well as media campaign for the preservation of theese artistic passarines. |
Electrocuted Saker photo by Mátyás Pommer | Within the frames of a Saker conservation programme sponsored by LIFE, 46 Sakers were equipped by satellite transmitters between 2007 and 2009. One of the falcons with satellite tag was found dead near to an electricity pylon on 4th January 2010. Electric shocks by power lines are among the most common reasons for bird deaths, and bird electrocution is especially common among raptors and White Storks. Despite of the efforts of the recent years only 10% of dangerous pylons are insulated in Hungary. Janos the dead Saker was an 8-year old male, and was tagged in 2008. His son Karcsi also received a satellite transmitter. You can learn more about the Hungarian-Slovak LIFE-Nature project by visiting its official website. You can also follow of the movements of the tagged falcons on the internet by clicking here. |
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Kingfisher by Zoltán Györi | The Hungarian Nature Photographer of the Year 2009 competition has ended. The overall winner of the competition was Ms Orsolya Haarberg the young talented Hungarian wildlife photographer who lives in Norway. Orsolya also won the first prize of the Bird category. The competition was organised by Naturart the Society of Hungarian Nature Photographers. To see the best pictures of the Bird category click on Fotoklikk.hu. To see more breathtaking pictures of Orsolya visit her website... |
Red deer | Many birders are also interested in big and small games. Bakony Mountains is an excellent place to see Red deers and Roe deers. The rutting of Red deer is an unforgettable experience, so we organise tours to see and photograph rutting Red deers in September. Accommodation is in Bakonyi Menedék - rural environment, quality accommodation. |
Wine cellar | Our business partner Vinrex is organising winetasting tours to the most famous wine regions of Hungary like Tokaj, Eger, Villány and Sopron. They have an exciting winetasting and cuvee blending program, you can download from here. Since most wine regions are also very good birding areas, we offer special winetasting and birding programs in association with Vinrex. If you are interested in winetasting tours or combined programs, write to us. |
| 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. |
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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