Birdwatching Tours
in North-West Poland and North-East Germany
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The
north west of Poland and the north east of Germany is acclaimed for its
sunny Baltic beaches, ancient churches, manor houses, and woods, lakes
and rivers. But birders know of other reasons to visit this lovely
area— a 80,000-acre national park situated in the very heart of the
vast Oder river delta, and in the surrounding of 50miles east or west
you find another 4 national parks, together with UNESCO Biosphere
reserves, RAMSAR nature reserves and numerous local nature and
landscape parks in Poland and Germany.  For groups & individuals, advanced & beginners For the majority of our nearly 14 years of operating nature and birding tours, we have acted as the ground (inbound) operator for American and European nature and birding tours companies. We also offer our services directly to the public. This means you can take the same birding tours, with the same guides, often for substantially less expense. We are also able to offer you tours on your 
schedule, and design them to meet your specific needs.
English-speaking naturalists guide all of our nature and birding
tours. We invite you to take some time to browse through this site, and keep in mind that the schedule of tours does not cover all of what we will be offering; be sure to check back with us once you know when you would like to travel. and feel free to contact us to let us know what we can do for you in North west Poland and in North east Germany Please take a look at our LIST OF BIRDS and at our SPECIAL TOURS. |
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BREAK's and GUIDED TOUR's for groups and individuals, advanced and beginners Here you will find a choice of birding short breaks and guided day tours. The birding short brakes are each featuring two nights at a warm and welcoming hotel, one in the city of Szczecin and the second one in the old cloister of Cedynia, 50 km northeast from Berlin at the Oder river valley. From this places we will take you out to your birdwatching tour exploring the best and most interesting sites of birdlife in the northwest of Poland: Warta River Nationalpark Lower Oder River Valley Wolin Nationalpark and Karsibor Island Szczecin Lagoon and Ramsar Reserve Swidwie Winter Special:
Observe White Tailed Eagle hunting in groups of 15 and more birds for water fowl and fish at the Szczecin lagoon |
There is an impressive list of very easy to watch Central - European birds, which will be a delight to bird-watchers, especially to those, taking their first bird-watching journey to the eastern part of the continent. You will find Black Redstart, Icterine Warbler, Golden Oriole, Red backed Shrike, Hawfinch, Crested Tit, both Nightingale and Thrush Nightingale, Hooded Crow, Serin, Crested Lark and even Red Kite, Hobby, Marsh Warbler, Penduline Tit and White spotted Bluethroat, all within the cities boundary. Half an hour by car away from Szczecin the breeding common cranes are the most attraction. About twenty pairs nest here, but even during the breeding season flocks builds up of 300 birds and during autumn migration up of 10.000s. Here you most likely get a look at little bittern and the more common bittern. Lesser spotted Eagle is a breeding specialty, but the bird of prey which most people want to see here is the White tailed Eagle which breeds near by. They are common in this part of Poland and you are likely to catch sight of one. | |||||||||||
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Birding Day Tours Flying in today, but want
to tour tomorrow?
No problem. Just call us and we will arrange the rest. We may take you from and to your hotel as a complimentary service. Call to order: +48 -601 85 68 94 Dedicated to bringing the great Pomeranian birdlife closer to you, we take you out on a journey of discovery to the most interesting birdwatching sites in Pomerania.
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days birdwatching Karsibor Island Szczecin Lagoon, Ramsar Reserve Swidwie and Wolin Nationalpark This can be an exciting birding tour. Cranes, Lesser spotted Eagle, Little Bittern, Bearded Tit, Aquatic Warbler, Corncrake, • In September/October: Migration with thousands of cranes and huge skeins of geese. And accompanying persons not interested in birding, will have a great time discovering the city of Szczecin. |
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| Main Details > 2 nts BB at the 4 star Radisson SAS Hotel in the city center of Szczecin > 3 days guided tours to different birdwatching places > Transfer from and to Szczecin airport - included. |
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| Price 229,- €
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Transport & Accommodation 4WD vehicle, van for airport shuttle, on foot. 4 star city hotel (2nts). 2 breakfasts at the hotel included. Flights not included. (Direct flight with Ryanair from London Stansted to Szczecin. Available on request: Transfer from Berlin airports. |
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| Notes: Single room option
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| the very best on Berlin's door steps On request: Transfer from Berlin airports. |
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days birdwatching Lower Oder River and Warta River Valley Black or white Stork, Cranes, Lesser spotted Eagle, Corncrake, Hawfinch In September and October: Migration with thousands of cranes and huge skeins of geese. |
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| Main Details > 2 nts B/HB at the cozy 3 star Hotel Klasztor Cedynia > 3 guided tours to different birdwatching places including the National Park around Slonsk > Transfer from and to Szczecin airport included. |
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| Price: 249,-€ p.p.
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Transport & Accommodation 4WD vehicle, small bus, on foot. 4 star city hotel (2nts). 2 breakfasts at the hotel, 2 lunches will be picnics & 2 dinners at the hotel included. Flights not included. (Direct flight with Ryanair from London Stansted to Szczecin. Depart UK 12:05 Return UK 16:35 and 23:15). Available on request: Transfer from Berlin airports. |
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| Please note: For groups of 4 and more participants we offer a wide range of special, escorted birdwatching and nature holidays in the Oder river estuary. Birdwatching groups are escorted by experienced, English speaking local guides and we cater for all levels of expertise. |
How to come here |
Weekend-Special:
Individual Escorted Birding Tours Around The Oder River Estuary Every
weekend you are welcome:
Arrival:
Friday
evening - Departure: Sunday evening includes
2 full day birding excursions to the most
interesting
sites escorted by a local guide 2 nights BB at a comfortable middle
class hotel, all transfers hotel - birding
sites - hotel by car
Price:
222,- EUR per person in double room
On request: Shuttle service Airport - Hotel see our information how to get here |
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Where & What ?
5 National Parks and numerous bird sanctuaries are waiting to be discovered  Just two
hours north of Berlin there is an impressive list of very
easy
to watch Central - European birds, which will be a delight to
bird-watchers,
especially to those, taking their first bird-watching journey to the
eastern
part of the continent. Here you will find Black Redstart, Icterine
Warbler,
Golden Oriole, Red backed Shrike, Hawfinch, Crested Tit,
both
Nightingale
and Thrush Nightingale, Hooded Crow, of course, Serin, Crested Lark and
even Red Kite, Hobby, Marsh Warbler, Penduline Tit and White spotted
Bluethroat,
all within the cities boundary. Half an hour by car away from Szczecin
the breeding cranes are the most attraction. About ten pairs nest here,
but after the breeding season flocks builds up of 300 birds and during
autumn migration up of 10.000. Lesser spotted Eagle is a breeding
specialty.
But the bird of prey which most people want to see here is the White
tailed
Eagle which breeds near by. They are common in this part of Poland and
you are likely to catch sight of one.
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NW Poland - Szczecin and Swinoujscie area (July 2000), Gruff Dodd Just got back from a long weekend to NW Poland, around the Szczecin and Swinoujscie area. Despite only managing one full day birding (Sunday 16.7.00), plus a few hours in the evening of Saturday 15.7.00 and a brief excursion on 17.7.00, I managed some great birds, largely thanks to excellent field assistance from local birders. Sincere thanks also to all the following who provided me with a great deal of help and information We flew on the morning of Saturday 15.7.00 from London Stansted (depart 06:40) with Ryanair On Sunday 16.7.00 I went birding all day with local birders, firstly at the Karsiborska Kepa reserve near Swinoujscie, then at various sites through the Wolin National Park to Kamien Pomorski, south through Sibin and Wolin to Swieta and Stepnica before returning to Miedzyzdroje. Sara spent the day exploring Miedzyzdroje, and enjoying the glorious sunny weather on the beach. I had 3 target birds for the trip, and managed good views of 2 of them and a brief but sadly untickable glimpse of the third. The main target bird was Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola), and after several hours hunting for this bird at the OTOP reserve at Karsiborska Kepa, we eventually managed to find and get excellent views of 2 singing birds. We were searching mid-morning, and they are likely to be much easier in the evening, although we were very lucky that it was a nice sunny still day - they are much harder to find in windy or wet conditions. The best area to find these birds is the eastern part of the reserve, i.e. away from the entrance and observation tower. Park the car at the entrance of the reserve, and walk down the main track. Don't take the track to the left towards the observation tower, but follow the track around to the right along a dyke overlooking large expanses of reed beds. This track was very overgrown with reeds and long grass in July, and pretty hard going in places, although they can also be found in a few other places nearby. Eventually you will reach a brick pumphouse, overlooking an area on your left of sedge and grasses with much fewer reeds - this is the best area to look for the AW. Thanks to Mikkel and Jonathan for the excellent directions! We picked up two separate birds by their short buzzy song, singing quite low down on grass stems. They stayed put for a reasonable length of time, and gave good views. Most of the breeding birds have been colour-ringed - if you see any send your records to OTOP. The other highlight of the trip was Corncrake (Crex crex). On 16.7.00 Pawel and Piotr took me, among other places, to a site between Szczecin and Swinoujscie, where we heard a Corncrake calling several times from tall grass quite near an overgrown track, relatively early in the afternoon (about 4 p.m.). As the site was only a short detour from my route back on 17.7.00 I decided to pay a repeat visit, as I had never heard this bird before, and wanted to hear more if possible. The timing wasn't brilliant, about 9.30 a.m., but as I walked up the path towards where it had been calling the previous day, to my disbelief the bird flushed alongside me from long grass about 4 metres from the path, flew a short way further along, where it landed out of sight again in more long grass, and started calling. Quite superb and totally unexpected! I hadn't intended to get quite so close to one, so I beat a hasty retreat to avoid further disturbance, and when I'd got round the corner and out of sight, I waited and listened to it calling for a bit longer. Before the trip I would have been very happy just to hear one - to see one was absolutely brilliant. Interestingly, the call it made just after flushing was very different to that it made afterwards, and the previous day - much harsher and more strident - some sort of "warning off" call, as opposed to the normal "marking my territory" call? The third target bird for the trip was Lesser Spotted Eagle (Aquila pomarina). After a good deal of searching and a few false alarms, we did manage a very brief view of one which flew over the road and disappeared behind some trees not far from the village of Sibin, south of Kamien Pomorski. Sadly it didn't reappear, and the view was too brief to be able to tick it, but I wasn't complaining too much. The supporting cast was also pretty good - Little Bittern at Swidwie (NW of Szczecin), Black-necked Grebes at Police, Red-breasted Flycatcher at Wolin National Park on the outskirts of Miedzyzdroje, 3 separate Goshawks, 4 Marsh Harriers, Red and Black Kites, plenty of Red-backed Shrikes, Tree Sparrows, Corn Buntings, Yellowhammers and other farmland birds, Black Redstart, Hooded Crow, Blue-headed and White Wagtails, a huge colony of tree-nesting Cormorants near Swieta, White and Black Storks, and heard records of Crane, Golden Oriole, Bearded Tit, Savi's and Grasshopper Warblers. All in all, a very successful and pleasant short break, and I can't wait to visit Poland again soon! GRUFF DODD Poland May - 2004 152 Bird Species recorded • A short drive to another locality for lunch and a very smart White-spotted Bluethroat was quickly found. Another bird with a completely blue throat was of the eastern form magna, our second rarity. Walking on into the marsh we had nice views of Common Crane and Western Marsh Harrier.... Tim Marlow report for Birdseekers Western Poland19 – 23 May 2004 • Near the border with Germany is an important wetland in western Poland teeming with birds. This is the Ujscie Warty National Park (“Warta River-Mouth” National Park) situated in the historical delta of the Warta River mouth in the area of the Lubuskie Voivodship....Jan Vermeulen reports. NW Poland, around the Szczecin and Swinoujscie area. 15-17/7/00 • Just got back from a long weekend to NW Poland, around the Szczecin and Swinoujscie area. Despite only managing one full day birding (Sunday 16.7.00), plus a few hours in the evening of Saturday 15.7.00 and a brief excursion on 17.7.00, I managed some great birds....Gruff Dodd reports Birdwatching trip to Poland August 1999 • This is the birdwatching trip report of a trip done in Poland by four Catalan birdwatchers, from the 15th until the 28th of August of 1999...We slept in a tent, in camping sites or free camping, depending on the site. In Poland, it was quite complicated to eat for reasonable prices outside of big cities...Arnau Bonan Barfull reports Western Poland July 19-27 1997 • Already during that evening, along the road to Gorzow Wlkp., it was clear that something was going on with the population of White Storks and Cranes. Several birds were spotted along the road and also from the bus...Belgian birder Dirk Raes reports from a flooded Poland Karsiborska Kepa NR, NW Poland 15-18 July 1997 • Karsiborska Kepa Nature Reserve in the Swiny Estuary in far NW. Poland is the first reserve of OTOP, the Polish Society for the Protection of Birds, established in 1995 to protect a major breeding ground of the Aquatic Warbler as well as other wetland species. It is also a good area for White-tailed Eagle, another species we wanted to see...Bill Smith reports on his brief stopover in Poland. |
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How
To Come Here ?
 From November 2005
daily: direct Flights London - Stansted to Szczecin - more information you find at Ryanair The new opportunity for all Birdwatchers from Great Britain to reach the continent. Our special offer: Birdwatching including guided tours to the Baltic coast (Wolin National Park), the Szczecin lagoon, the Oder valley National Park and the Warthe estuary National Park inclusive all transfers from the airport to the hotel and to all birding sites. Please note:
For groups of 4 and more participants we offer a wide range of special,
escorted birdwatching
holidays
in the Oder river estuary. Birdwatching groups are escorted by
experienced,
English speaking local guides and we cater for all levels of expertise.
Please mail us for futher details. |
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details of our group arrangements, we will be delighted to receive your
inquiry. mtm@inet.pl
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Dates on request: Birding
and Nature Tours for groups and individuals, advanced and beginners from 3 to 7 days. The region of the Oder river lagoon and the lower Oder river valley is not only a very significant breeding ground, but also an important resting area during bird migration in spring and autumn. Rivers, lakes, the Oder river estuary, the Szczecin lagoon, the Warthe and the Oder river valley and the Baltic Sea all reflect the glacial history of the Pomeranian landscape. Szczecin is surrounded by some of the largest natural forests west of the Vistula river. Please note: For groups of 4 and more participants we offer a wide range of special, escorted birdwatching and nature holidays in the Oder river estuary. Birdwatching groups are escorted by experienced, English speaking local guides and we cater for all levels of expertise. |
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MTM - ul. Czorsztynska 14, PL 71-163 SZCZECIN, MTM - Ueckerstraße 122, D 17373 Ueckermünde Fax: 0048 - 91 - 48 723 89 Phone: 0048 - 601 85 68 94 |
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