Bird Watching Botany tour Nature tours Birds and Botany

Interesting species for the bird watchers:

Nyxticorax nyxticorax, Little Owl, Egretta Garzetta,Phalacrocorax Pygmeus, Ixobrychus Minutus, Griffon Vulture, Black Stork, Black-eared wheatear, Subalpine Warbler, Masked Shrike, Western Rock Nuthatch, Roller, Blue Rock Thrush, Black Headed Bunting, Short-toed Eagle, Black Stork, Chukar, Subalpine Warbler, Cirl Bunting, Monticola Saxatilis, BlueRock Thrush, Woodchat Shrike, Booted Eagle, Sombre Tit, Long-legged Buzzard, Rock Nuthatch.

A special show will be watched at the vultures’ feeding place. Griffon Vulture, Egyptian Vulture, Black Vulture, Golden Eagle, Imperial Eagle, Raven, and White Tailed Sea Eagle will be the participants.

In the area of Ivaylovgrad – Black Vulture, Booted Eagle, Masked Shrike, Olive-tree Warbler.

Interesting for botanists:

Black pine (Pinus Nigra), Populus nigra, Salix alba, Alnus Glutinosa, Black maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris), Verbascum Rupestre, Lathrea rhodopea, Carpinus Orientalis, Hypericum rumeliacum, Galium velenovskyi, Potentilla regis-borissii. Quercus frainetto, Carpinus orientalis, Fraxinus ornis, Syringa vulgaris, Orchis pailionacea, Verbascum Humile, Carduus thracicus, Cornus mas, Crataegus monogyna, Juniperus oxycedrus, Scila bifolia, Verbascum humile, Verbascum roripifolia, Fritilaria pontica, cardius thracicus, etc. Some of the plant species included in the Red list of Bulgaria are: Lathraea rhodopaea, Haberlea Rhodopensis, Hippomaratum cristatum, Stachys serbica, etc. Endemic plants include Potentilla regis-borissii, Carduus thracicus, Armeria rumelica.

Wildlife Island

Sightings of common interest – Land Tortoises (Testudo graeca), Stone Marten, Wild Boar, Wolf, Fox, Roe Deer, Fallow deer, Montpellier snake, Common Tree-Frog, Green Lizard, Balkan Wall Lizard, Otter, Cobitis rhodopensis, Balkan terrapin, Snake-eyed lizard, Lesser Horseshoe Bat, etc.