One-day Birding Along the Northern Black Sea Coast
One-day Birding Along the Northern Black Sea Coast
Highlights
This birding tour is intended for more or less experienced birders or nature enthusiasts. It will bring you to a region with great variety of birds throughout the year.
• Key species of birds to be seen during the tour in spring and summer: all the European herons and egrets, Little Bittern, Ferruginous Duck, Whiskered Tern, Black Tern, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Red-footed Falcon, Collared Pratincole, Stone Curlew, Eagle Owl, Alpine Swift, Syrian Woodpecker, Grey-headed Woodpecker, Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Greater Short-toed Lark, Calandra Lark, Tawny Pipit, Isabelline Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Paddyfield Warbler, Barred Warbler, Semi-collared Flycatcher;
• The numerous flocks of Red-breasted Goose are the focus of this tour in winter.
Itinerary
Lake Durankulak
2 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeThe tour starts at 8 a.m. from Varna or any of the nearby resorts. We drive north to Coastal Dobroudzha - the northernmost part of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, locked between the Romanian – Bulgarian border and cape Kaliakra. Here the green plain gradually rolls on towards the coastal sand dunes and beaches. Two old riverbeds cut the lowland. Their former estuaries are occupied by the lakes of Durankulak and Shabla. In winter hundreds of thousands of wild geese, among which almost the whole population of the globally threatened Red-breasted Goose, choose this area as their wintering grounds.Lake Shabla
2 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeNext we visit the second firth lake in the area - Shabla Lake and the Shabla-Tuzla salty lagoon. Over 80 bird species breed in the region of the lakes, the most interesting of them being the Western Marsh Harrier, the Collared Pratincole, the Ferruginous Duck, the Red-footed Falcon. The two lakes are one of the few places in Europe where the Paddyfield Warbler, a typical Asian species, can be seen.Cape Kaliakra
2 hoursAdmission Ticket Not IncludedTo the south the plain flows more and more steeply towards the expanse of the sea and at Cape Kaliakra the sea cliff towers up to 70 m. Here are the last remnants of the Great Steppe, formerly occupying the bigger part of Dobr0udzha. The kaleidoscopic hues of the wild peonies, irises and adonises in spring, the silver-greentints of the absinthe and thristles in summer and the light movements of the feather-grass in autumn, gracefully sweeping among the remnants of the ancient fortress of Kaliakra, create the special appeal of this area. Cape Kaliakra is one of the few places in Europe hosting the Rose-colored Starling, the Pied Wheatear and all five lark species, typical for the Balkan Peninsula. The Stone Curlew, the Lesser Grey Shrike and the Isabelline Wheatear find refuge in steppe vegetation, while the coastal cliffs are animated by the European Shags (ssp. desmarestii).
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