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Croatian mountains and inland - habitats and birds

Croatian islands - habitats and birds

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Croatian lakes, rivers and deltas - habitats and birds

Croatian fields, plains and meadows - habitats and birds (coming soon)

Our programs:

Spring migrations tour

Autumn migrations tour

Rock Partridge quest

Weekend birding break

Bird-a-day 

Trip report spring 2011   - by Liza and Robert Weissler

featured by:

VAL TOURS travel agency

birding(at)val-tours.hr

Trg hrvatskih velikana bb

23210 Biograd n/m

Croatia

tel: +385 23 386 479

fax: +385 23 386 478

ID CODE HR-AB-23-13060100423

Photos by Robert Crnkovic, Dare Sere, Tomaz Miheli, Al Vrzec and Davorin Tome, Zeljko Kelemen, Val Tours

We give you...  

Croatia

an emerging birding destination!

Croatia as a tourist destination is well known for its coastal summer holiday resorts, with many popular attractions such as visits to historical and cultural sites, boating, diving or just relaxing, but many of  these resorts are also close to a number of excellent birdwatching areas. 

Here you can learn about birding sites in Croatia, read descriptions of the various Croatian habitats, discover reasons to bird in Croatia - including a complete bird check list - and last, but not least, be introduced to local birding programs. 

General information

Croatia lies on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Its area of just over 56.000 km² (a bit less than 22.000 ml²) contains a surprisingly varied range of landscapes of four major types: inland lowlands, a chain of inland mountains, coastal, and the archipelago of more than 1000 islands in the Adriatic Sea. Croatia has two distinct... read more

Reasons to bird in Croatia

Since Croatia extends over the central European migration corridor, and partially over the western one, heavy migrations (especially of birds of prey) take place during Spring and Autumn in much of the coastal region. The coast is also an important wintering...read more

Nature protection in Croatia

There are eight national parks in Croatia: four of them are uplands (Risnjak, Northern Velebit, Paklenica and Plitvice Lakes); one (Krka River) is near the coast, and the town of Sibenik (home of the famous UNESCO protected St. Jakob's Cathedral) and three of them cover the island and marine habitats (Kornati, Mljet and Brijuni). Furthermore, there are eleven nature parks and several reservations, and as many as 23 IBA-s ... read more

Croatian avifauna consists of 387 bird species, of which 233 species are nesters; 178 species are classed as threatened on the national level, 69  on the European level and 21 on the global level.

Croatia is the only eastern European country that has breeding Cory's and Yelkouan Shearwaters, Audouin's Gull and Eleonora's Falcons.

There are as many as 23 IBA-s in Croatia

 Observe  a rare combination of impressive mountain ranges, flat plains and picturesque sea coast,

 all still unspoiled and wild,

on areas not bigger then

300 km² (120 ml² ).