Expert led field butterfly workshops for butterflies and plants lovers!
Summer is a fantastic time to look for rare butterflies and Poland is fantastic country for a suite of highly desirable species. A tour not to be missed!
This exclusive tour explores the unspoilt and under-watched countryside of Poland, in search of Europe’s rarest, most beautiful butterflies and highly sought-after species.
Unforgettable week exploring the best habitats in Poland during daily walks to the wild meadows on a full bloom and full of butterflies. You will also get a chance to watch some rare moths during night sessions and learn using UV light and white screen. All set in a timeless landscape that you wont find elsewhere in Europe!
Overview
This excellent butterfly workshops has been designed to get the most from watching butterflies in Poland, when your time is limited to a week or so. You will enjoy unforgettable, slow paced wildlife trip, encounter rare butterflies and explore some of Europe’s premier habitats.
On night sessions you will also learn how to use white screen and UV lamps to attract moths that you will identify with a help of your guide.
Seniors friendly trip, easy trails suitable for everyone, including older people. It does not require any skills in mountain climbing or traversing difficult terrain. Most of the time you’ll be driven and dropped off as close as possible and walk along dirt paths and/or forest trails. Raincoat and comfy trekking boots are required, waterproof preferably.
Workshops are organized in two locations (depending on the date – ask us for details).
- Northeastern Poland:
Bialowieza Primeval Forest national park – a very last, untouched, old riverine European forest, where hiking is like stepping back thousand years! Hard to believe in fact that average age of the forest stands are far over 130 years and 400-600 years old trees are not rare! Even more incredible is the biodiversity of fauna – approx. 9200 species of insects, 13 species of amphibians, 58 species of mammals and nearly 250 bird species.
Biebrza Marshes national park – biggest national park of Poland and greatest wetlands in Europe, under RAMSAR protection. Mazes of river channels, flooded meadows, peat-bogs, overgrown swamps and endless areas of wild marshes make a home to over 750 species of moths and butterflies!2. Southern Poland:
Cracow region, including Low Beskid and Swietokrzyskie Mountains – one of the best areas to spot rarest European butterflies. Swietokrzyskie Mountains are well known for their unique boulder fields (also called stone rubble or rock debris) which came into being due to weathering of quartzitic sandstone under the influence of climatic conditions.
Low Beskid – part of Carpathians – is one of the wildest corners of Poland, very loosely populated mountain area with picturesque valleys where only old, feral fruit trees, isolated traces of house foundations or Orthodox churches and overgrown gravestones suggest that humans life once existed here. All of this makes an incredibly scenic landscape and truly unique atmosphere! This area has been recently inscribed by Unesco in its World Heritage List.
Key species
- Clouded Apollo, Tufted Skipper, Black-veined White, Purple-edged Copper
- Eastern Short-tailed Blue, Marsh Fritillary, Lesser Marbled Fritillary, Eastern Bath White
- Scarce Swallowtail, The Swallowtail, Small White/Cabbage White, Wod White, Orange Tip
- Violet Copper, Sooty Copper, Green Hairstreak, Black Hairstreak, Reverdin's Blue
- Scarce Fritillary, The Wall, False Heath Fritillary, Glanville Fritillary, Speckled Wood, Woodland Brown
- Mammals include: European bison, Pine marten, Racoon dog, Beaver, Otter, Moos/Elk and a big chance to see elusive lynx and wolf!
- And much, MUCH more...
