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
(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/et_EE/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’)); Pygmy Owl call close to …
Brown bears are preparing for winter hibernation
At the end of October brown bears are done with crowing fat layer under their skin. Brown bears start hibernate in November and couple of weeks before they are less …
Raised bog
About 23% of Estonia is covered with peat land soil and about 8% is covered with raised bogs. You will find raised bogs all over Estonia. Bogs started to develop …
Western Capercaillie
The speculated number of male Capercaillies in Estonia is about 1000-1500 birds. They live in big forest areas like Soomaa and Alutaguse but we can’t find them in Estonian islands. …
Estonian Brown Bears in discoverwildlife.com page 19.12.2013
In the DiscoverWildlife.com two photographers Remo Savisaar and Neil Aldridge ´s photos were published- http://www.discoverwildlife.com/gallery/estonian-wildlife-photo-gallery-neil-aldridge-and-remo-savisaar Some of the pictures were made from Natourest Alutaguse bear hide- https://natourest.ee/brown-bear-2/brown-bear-photography/ In the first picture you …