7 days Birding Specials

Bulgarian Black Sea coast has extraordinary birdlife all year including up to 30,000 Red-breasted Geese in winter, most exciting spring and autumn migration and numerous East-European breeding specialities.

Lake Durankulak holds enormous variation throughout the year.  Good number of herons, cormorants, ducks, bitterns, crakes and passerines breed here, and several of them can be found all year round, including Moustached Warbler, Bearded Tit, Marsh Harrier and Pygmy Cormorant.

Waders feature Marsh, Curlew and Broad-billed Sandpipers, Temminck’s Stint, Kentish & Grey Plovers, Red-necked Phalarope, Black-winged Stilt, Collared Pratincole, Great Snipe, Gull-billed, Caspian, Little, Sandwich and the three species of Marsh Terns, Mediterranean, Yellow-legged, Pontic, Little, Common and Slender-billed Gulls can be spotted.

RED-BREASTED GEESE

Branta Birding Lodge offers you the unique opportunity to visit the world wintering site of the stunning and very endangered Red-breasted Goose.

Large concentrations of White-fronted Geese plus a few of the exceedingly rare Lesser White-fronted Goose also feature in the programme, plus a large array of waterfowl including divers, grebes and ducks. There is good chance of an Eagle Owl and outside possibility of Greater Black-headed Gull. Little and Pontic Gulls, desmaresti sub-species of Shag, Syrian Woodpecker, Calandra Lark and Bearded Tit are also on the agenda. Raptors are well represented too including White-tailed, and Spotted Eagles, Rough-legged and Long-legged Buzzards, Marsh and Hen Harriers, Merlin, Peregrine, and, with a good luck, Saker Falcon.

The best time of year to see Red-breasted Geese is during months of January and February.

PADDYFIELD WARBLER

The only chance to view in Europe this long distance migrant from Asia, coming to nest at the westernmost limit of its breeding range. The lake Durankulak is the breeding home to around 120 pairs of this delightful eastern melodious mimic.

In May you can also see, Pygmy Cormorant, the desmaresti sub-species of Shag, Glossy Ibis, Purple and Squacco Herons, Little Bittern, Ferruginous Duck, Bee-eater, Roller, Hoopoe, Red-backed and Lesser Grey Shrikes, Penduline and Bearded Tits, Balkan Wagtail, Tawny Pipit, Calandra and Short-toed Larks, Red-footed Falcon, Long-legged and Honey Buzzards, Levant Sparrowhawk, Booted and Lesser Spotted Eagles, Little Crake, Moustached, Marsh, Savi’s, Olive-tree, Olivaceous and Barred Warblers, Red-Rumped Swallow, Alpine Swift, Syrian Woodpecker and other unusual passerines like Rose-coloured Starling, Pied, Isabelline and Black-eared Wheatears, Ortolan, Blackheaded and Corn Buntings, thousands of waders including Collared Pratincole, Stone Curlew, Black-winged Stilt, Kentish Plover, Marsh, Curlew and Broad-billed Sandpipers, Temminck’s Stint, Gull-billed, Caspian, Little, Sandwich and the three species of Marsh Terns, Pontic and Mediterranean Gulls, Yelkouan Shearwater etc.

Rate:

7-day holidays from 169 Pounds (199 Euro) only.

Price includes:

• Six nights Full-board staying at Branta Birding Lodge.

• Transport from and to Varna or Constantza airports.

We provide comfortable and clean accommodation at Branta Birding Lodge overlooking Durankulak Lake and Black Sea in Bulgaria.

It is highly recommended to hire an experienced  English-speaking local bird guide for some part of your holiday. Programme may be adapted to your schedule.

Bird Guide Fee (including transportation) :
Full Day (sunrise to sunset) - 1 birder: Euro 75
Full Day - Additional birders: Euro 15

Half Day (sunrise - Noon or 1:00 PM to sunset) - 1st birder: Euro 40
Half Day - Additional birders: Euro 10

For more information, please email us at info@branta-tours.com

or just give a call: +359 887 308753 / +359 888 476601