Year: 2024

After our Romania Mammal Tour we will have an extension where our friend and mammal expert Zsolt Hegyeli will be looking for the Grey Dwarf Hamster (Nothocricetulus migratorius) which has been found at a few locations in Romania. It is a widely distributed species in the Palearctic but there is no chance to see it in Europe west of Romania. Zsolt has been on the field in April 2024 and managed to see a single individual (see image below), so our chances are really good as we now have an exact location to try and not only locations where it has been found in owl pellets. Come and join us for this 6 days (5 nights) tour from 1-6 September 2024. If you interested to join this adventure please let us know, send an email to our office for more informations! Tour price is 990 euro including single room. A great opportunity to look for a rare European mammal!

Grey Dwarf Hamster in Romania, 2024 (image by Zsolt Hegyeli)

It is a rare event nowadays to launch a new nature (bird and mammal) photography tour in Europe! We have succesfully tested and run three of our new photography tours in January and February 2024. Our guests enjoyed this new adventure and despite the very mild weather in the winter of 2023-2024 they all had great experience photographing Golden Jackals in winter coat, Wildcats in winter coat, Dalmatian Pelicans in breeding dress, fishing White-tailed Eagles and a few more extras! A fantastic new tour for nature photographers! Come and joins us for next winter (2025 )though because of our small group size limit, and the very short possible window for this tour only very limited places still available. Check out the full tour!

Finally we got around to create a fantastic tour for butterfly lovers who are after some exciting species in Europe. We have been testing this tour in the last two years and our main focus is to find the rare False Comma. It is definitely not guaranteed that we will find one, but certainly we will visit the best place for this species in Europe in the best period to maximize our chances. Of course there will be many other exciting butterflies on the wing such as Balkan Copper, Bog and Freyer’s Fritillary, Bulagrian Ringlet, Russian and Eastern Large Heath etc. If you like butterflies this is a wonderful tour for you!

Sakertour team

This amazing mammal tour we created and run the first time in 2020 is certainly amongst the top mammal tours to Europe at the moment. Our first tour recorded 46 species in 2020, the next one recorded 49 species in 2021 and eventually we had 50 species in 2022! We knew if weather and luck is on our side this tour is capable to reach even more mammal species but we never dreamed of seeing 60 species on such a shrot tour. This is what happened in 2023 and surely it was an amazing tour even though we missed the European Mink in the Danube Delta. You can read the report here! As far as we know this is by far the longest mammal list on any 9 days (8 nights) tour in Europe! I am almost certain the record will not be broken by us easily and the regularly doable realistic number is a 45-55 mammals on this tour. It is still an amazing result and a great adventure! For those who like to be out at night and experience some superb starry skies (like in the Danube Delta) as well as mammal watching this is a fantastic adventure. Come and join us! Here you can check dates and avaialabilities! Zoltán Gergely Nagy

Our long standing Hungary, Slovakia & Transylvania tour was running in this 12 days form the last time in 2023. Now our report of the 2023 tour is available and from 2024 it will be reduced to 11 days and we will not have a scheduled visit to Slovakia. We will keep it optional depending on the year and especially the owl breeding situation. If we believe it is good to go we may visit Slovakia within the current itienary. We hope to achive the same general result for this remarkable tour which has recorded between 213 to 230 species in the last ten tours, but with one less day! Sakertour team