comprehensive online guide to birding in Poland. Poland is a great country for birds and birders: there are vast marshes, dense coniferous and deciduous forests, a long coastline, thousands of lakes, old riverine forests, high mountains, and mile after mile of traditionally worked farmlands. The site offers hotspot information on:
• Babia Gora
• Bialowieza PrimevalForest
• Biebrza Marshes 
• Bug River Lower Valley
• Goczalkowice Reservoir
• Narew River Upper Valley
• Siemianówka Reservoir
• Warta River Mouth

....Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park - 212 bird species have been

recorded in this park.

parks. Of particular importance to birders are the following, both of which are recognized as RAMSAR sites:
• Biebrzanski National Park - Biebrzanski National Park was established on September 9, 1993. This National Park covers a large part of the Biebrza proglacial valley, including the Biebrza Marshes and most of the area of the peatland.
• Slowinski National Park - About 255 species of birds, that is ca. 70% of those found in Poland, have been recorded here. Such a great number and variety results from the fact, that many environments have preserved their natural features within the Park. The Park, sitting by the sea-side, is located on the most important way of annual bird migrations. Another site on this park.

information (and a clickable map) regarding bird habitats (and the birds to be found there) in Poland. Follow the "Sites" link on the main page.

of Poland's Karsiborska Kepa, home to some of Europe's rarest bird life, looked bleak. Now, with the help of Swarovski Optik, it is thriving. Article by Laurence Weinberger.

.....PTOP(Polnocnopodlaskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Ptakow Bialowieza)

the North Podlassian Society for Birds Protection is the oldest Polish Bird Protection society. Here you can find a simple clickable map of interesting places, as well as checklist of birds in the area. 

.....Jerzy Dyczkowski's Birding Pages - this great website provides 

information on:
• Bialowieza Forest
• Siemianówka Lake
• Biebrza Marshes
• Vistula Valley
• Milicz Ponds
• Tatra Mountains
• Bieszczady Mountains
• Gdansk Bay
• Warsaw

a great country for birds and birders: there are vast marshes and forests, a long coastline, thousands of lakes, high mountains and mile after mile of traditionally worked farmlands. But Poland is a large country needing several visits to do it justice. Most birders head from Warsaw straight to the forests and wetlands of the north-east or the Baltic Coast, though the country is dotted with great birding areas

really is like going back in time. Peaceful villages, flower meadows, unspoilt forest, grazing marshes and tiny traditional farms. And in mid-May it's simply alive with birdlife.

birdwatcher and naturalist, as it possesses superb untouched forests and enormous areas of marshland that hold remnant strongholds of many rare and interesting birds and animals. This outdated commercial tour itinerary outlines a detailed itnierary for birding Poland.

July 15-18 1997 - by P. William and Susan A. Smith, Florida, USA

- by Paul Rakow. This is a trip report of a weekend spent in the Swina delta in Western Poland. The Swina is a channel that takes part of the water from the Oder river (the one with the recent floods) and delivers it to the Baltic sea. This area wasn't affected by the floods, the flood-water dissipated in the lagoon North of Szczecin. 

by Haynes Miller, June 10--19, 1994. I attended a conference in Warsaw, took a couple of early-morning walks in a park in the university district, a day-trip with other participants to the Swietokrzyskie Mountains (some 3 hours from Warsaw, past a potentially interesting area at the crossing of the Pilice River), and two days in the Biebrza National Park. 

Budapest (Hungary), July 23 - August 6, 1997, by Terry Witt. My wife and I recently returned from an 18 day tour af Eastern Europe. This was a tourist type trip run by Grand Circle Tours. I had been birding in Europe several times before but hoped to slip away from the group when possible and perhaps even see a few new birds. Using this strategy, I took an early AM walk on most days, and despite being lodged in the middle of 4 large cities still had a modest amount of success. 

agency Ro-Travel) Antwerpen on July 19th, as a guide for a Wielewaal-excursion, I knew that there were some problems with the river Odra in the West and South-West Poland. An extremely high water level, the highest since 300 years, caused a total disruption of life. Some 60 victims were already counted. What will this trip bring us? 

Peter Jones. The festival was held in the North East of Poland near to good birdwatching locations at Lake Siemianowka, Bialowieski Forest and, further afield, the Narew and Biebrza Marshes. The festival attracted over 50 birdwatchers from great Britain and a smaller number of birdwatchers fron other countries. Polish Birdwatchers had previously staked out the forests and several woodpecker nest sites were located prior to the festival. Each day, particpants had the choice of guided tours to the forest, lake or marshes, or could make their own arrangements.

This is a summary of a 172-species birding trip to eastern Poland in May 2000, and should be of interest to birders planning to visit Bialowieza Forest and Biebrza Marshes. 

Summer 2003 - by: Rob van Bemmelen, Kasper Hendriks, Wesley Overman, and Ben Wielstra. July 2003 was the moment for 4 young birders from The Netherlands to do some interesting birding in the eastern part  of Europe. July is of course not the best time to go birding because most birds are relatively non-active in summer. But, as all the participants attain some sort of school during the rest of the year, a trip this long in spring was no option. The  group departed on Saturday the 28th of June and returned on Sunday the 27th of July 2003.

(Park Narodowy Ujcie Warty) and in its Surroundings (District Gorzów, Poland). June 14 – 15, 2003, by Hans Schick. See also Han's 2004 trip report from the same area. This is one of the most interesting birding sites within a radius of about 100 km around Berlin.

BirdTours website by following the Europe/Poland links from the main page.

has a decade of experience (over 100 group tours alone) in finding and showing visiting birders from all over the world eastern Europe's special and sought after birds. All types and styles of birding can be catered for, from hard-core listers, twitchers and target birders to those into habitat birding and those with a more relaxed generalist approach. Birding by ear is a speciality and remember Gerard wrote the books that others use (Where to watch birds in Eastern Europe and The Birds of Hungary)! Four new Hungary tours this year! Personal Guiding, Group Arrangements, Itinerary Design, Target Birding All levels of ability and experience catered for.

Whilst our reputation is as an 'ecological' travel agency, and birdwatching remains an important part of our activity, BST now offers considerably more, for the general-interest traveller as well as the special interest group. Poland is known as superb destinations for birdwatchers. Places like Biebrza Marshes and Bialowieza Primaeval Forest are well known. Only here you can easy observe all ten European woodpeckers. four flycatchers, further specialities like Great Snipe, Aquatic Warbler and at least hundred other interesting bird species. Organizing birdwatching tours? Of course we are 'No. 1' in Poland where this matter is concerned.