The year of the Western Capercaillie is ending in about a week. Now it’s a good time to look back at some of the encounters we had with this forest …
Some positive notes for Estonian forests and biodeviersity
Today it was announced that the Estonian Naturalist’s Society (LUS) is leading a project which aims to carry out the inventory of Woodland Key Habitats (WKH) in Estonia and to …
Alutaguse – Estonia’s youngest national park
We are happy to announce that Estonia has now one more national park – Alutaguse. The idea of establishing Alutaguse National Park was already considered at the beginning of 1920s, …
New winter guests have arrived
The thermometer has shown degrees below zero now for more than a month. One night the thermometer on one of our tracking cameras even showed -31°C. This means that all the …
A rare encounter with the Western Capercailllie
The first month of the year has flown by, bringing snow and temperatures below zero. Watching the snowstorm behind the windows of our NaTourEst office in Tallinn, it feels a …
Winter guests near the new brown bear hide
December means that all the bears, who gave us unforgettable emotions from early spring to late autumn, have become dormant. The last active Brown Bear was captured by our camera …
Young Ural Owl
Our group managed to see nice Ural Owl nest with one chick on nest. Jarek got this young one on the photo waiting for a food.
Good Pygmy Owl year
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first brown bear tracks in Alutaguse
On Sunday I saw the first brown bear tracks in Alutaguse. If most of Estonia is already without snow then in N-E of Estonia I was able to track bears …
Alutaguse bear camera season is on
Brown bear camera season starts and the first brown bears were seen in the 7 th of April. Camera can be seen from page http://www.looduskalender.ee/node/19682. Camera is just next to …
