Where can you see the Thrush Nightingale?
Some of the best places to see the Thrush Nightingale in the wild include Söderåsens National Park (Sweden), Valdaysky National Park (Russia) and Białowieża National Park (Poland) — among 11 wildlife hotspots across Russia, Poland, Sweden and Germany. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Białowieża National Park
Bialowieza, Poland
+105 birds+29 mammals
Ancient woodland sprawls across the Polish-Belarusian border where primordial forests have escaped the axe for centuries. This 198-square-kilometre sanctuary harbours […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBiebrza National Park
Goniądz, Poland
+130 birds+25 mammals
Where wetland and water merge across northeastern Poland’s vast floodplain, one of Europe’s most pristine riverine ecosystems unfolds across nearly […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKLosiny Ostrov National Park
Balashikhinsky District, Russia
+120 birds+30 mammals
Ancient pine and birch forests sweep across undulating terrain where the Moskva River winds through Moscow’s northeastern reaches, creating a […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKLower Oder Valley National Park
Schwedt/Oder, Germany
+124 birds+30 mammals
Where two nations’ borders converge along the Oder River, a landscape of wetlands, floodplain forests and oxbow lakes unfolds across […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKNizhnyaya Kama National Park
Yelabuzhsky District, Russia
+118 birds+9 mammals
Where the middle Volga River carves through the ancient steppes of Tatarstan, a sprawling 1,100-square-kilometre sanctuary unfolds across meadows, wetlands, […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKPolesie National Park
Michałów, Poland
+96 birds+10 mammals
Where the Narew River winds through Poland’s eastern borderlands, pristine wetlands and ancient forests converge in one of Europe’s most […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSöderåsens National Park
Skåne län, Sweden
+130 birds+26 mammals
Dramatic limestone gorges slice through beech and oak forest where the Helge River carves its way southward across Skåne’s rolling […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKStenshuvuds National Park
Skåne län, Sweden
+136 birds+18 mammals
Where windswept cliffs plunge toward the Baltic and ancient beech forests cling to limestone slopes, southern Sweden reveals one of […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKTsentralno-Lesnoy Gosudarstvennyy Prirodnyy Biosfernyy Nature Reserve
Nelidovsky District, Russia
+82 birds+8 mammals
Ancient spruce and fir forests stretch across undulating terrain in western Russia, where primordial taiga landscape remains largely untouched by […]
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