Bird Watching in Poland
Poland Birding
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Bialowieza Forest and Biebrza Marshes are the most famous birding hotspots in Poland. There are plenty of other places, excellent habitats and real wildlife santuraries filled with birds.
Don't know when to go? March is simply the best time ever for all woodpeckers. April for woodpeckers, owls and April adds plenty of migrating ducks, geese, waterfowls and raptors.
May has all of the above (but a bit worse for woodpeckers) plus displaying ruffs and great snipes on the lek! And second half of May brings 'late comers' like: warblers (especially aquatic, river and barred), flycatchers (collared and red-breasted included), marshy terns, bee eaters, rollers etc.
June is still very good, but you might miss lekking great snipes and woodpeckers are hardly visible, because of dense foliage at this time.
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Popular Birding Locations
Notecka Forest - a large forest where Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Kingfisher, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Black Storks, Crested Lark and Golden Oriole can often be seen.
Swinoujscie - the Mouth of of the River Świna Estaury is often described as one of the most attractive spots to watch birds on the Baltic Sea.
Warta Slonsk - a huge reserve near the Polish-German border. Along with the Biebrza Marshes (in the north-east of the country) the best places in Poland for birdwatching. Birds include: Grebe, Black Stork, Great Egret, Shelduck, White - tailed Eagle, Red Kite, Oystercatcher, Godwit, Ruff, Little Tern, Black Tern, Whiskered Tern, Caspian Gull, Little Gull, Hoopoe, Little Owl, Night Heron, Little Egret, Spoonbill, Egyptian Goose, Pink footed Goose, Red breasted Goose, Ruddy Shelduck, and Avocet.
Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park - 212 bird species have been recorded in this park.
Slowinski National Park - About 255 species of birds, that is ca. 70% of those found in Poland, have been recorded here.