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About Us:

Wildlife And Birdwatching Tours Slovenia

We are a young and new company, which has in 2018 started working in the field of photo tourism. The Fotonatur team is comprised of young and experienced birding Slovenia adventurers, which all have something in common: the love of nature and animals.

The owner of the company, Janez Žalig, is also an experienced photographer. He travelled across numerous photo tourism destinations around the World. His biggest wish is to present Slovenia to the World. With its numerous animal species and diverse nature, it’s one of the more beautiful countries in the World.

Our Mission: To care about nature and wildlife. To introduce birding Slovenia to photographers and show him all the secret corners of our beautiful country. We want to work together with NGO’s, which are working towards the preservation of animal species and nature. With the help of photo tourism, we want to raise awareness and be a socially responsible company, which will help NGO’s and work towards the preservation of nature and animal wildlife.
Wild Slovenia: Capture the beautiful wilderness of Slovenia. Imagine spending time in a photographer’s paradise, hunting photos in peaceful, pristine natural surroundings. Joined by an experienced local guide, you patiently wait for your next great picture, be it of a bear, in the vast forests of Loški Potok, a chamois, deer, capercaillie or black grouse in the mountainous Koroška region or rare birds such as the hoopoe, European bee-eater, little bittern, common moorhen or black-winged stilt in the lagoons of Ormož or the landscape park Rački ribnik.
You smile as you remember the exquisite homemade food and pleasant dreams in your comfortable accommodation. You can have all that in just three days. Come photo-hunting in Slovenia!

Slovenia is small but perfectly formed, encompassing different environments within its borders. In a relatively small area, you can find wildlife from the Alpine, Mediterranean, Karstic and Pannonian world, and photograph them. Pristine and preserved nature offers an abundance of animal species, including some that are rare and endangered. Photo-hunting in the eastern part of Slovenia, known for its outstanding beauty and tranquillity, is special: it’s a wonderful experience that no-one should miss. Local guides with years of experience in photo hunting will give you the best advice on getting incredible footage of the wildlife while you enjoy the comfort of spacious and thoughtfully placed photo-hunting grounds that give you all you need for the ultimate photo experience.

In addition to the incredible wildlife footage, you will be able to enjoy our diverse gastronomic offer as every region showcases its specialties and flavours. In the Koroška region, you will be offered “štruklji”, (local dumplings), and smoked meat delicacies, and when you are in Prlekija, you will be able to taste its exquisite wine and other culinary specialties, such as “tünka” (preserved pork). And then you can take a well-deserved good night’s rest after such a tiring, but also the exceptional day, rest in accommodation such as tourist farms or a unique glamping environment with a hint of tradition, surrounded by pristine nature.

Tours:

Slovenia Floating Hide Bird Photography Tour

Slovenia 5 Days

Starting From EUR 990 / per person

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Spring Bear & Birding Tour Slovenia

Slovenia 7 Days

Starting From EUR 1,520 / per person

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Birdwatching Slovenia Tour in Spring

Slovenia 8 Days

Starting From EUR 1,490 / per person

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Wildlife:

Brown bear

The Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is one of the most common subspecies of the brown bear and is found in much of Eurasia. It is also known as the European brown bear, common brown bear, common bear, and colloquially by many other names.

Western capercaillie

The western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), also known as the wood grouse, heather cock, or just capercaillie, is a member of the grouse family and its largest member. The largest known specimen, recorded in captivity, had a weight of 7.2 kilograms (16 pounds). Found across Europe and the Palearctic, this ground-living forest bird is renowned for its mating display.

Black Grouse

The black grouse or blackgame or blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) is a large game bird in the grouse family. It is a sedentary species, breeding across the Palearctic in moorland and bog areas near to woodland, mostly boreal. The black grouse is closely related to the Caucasian grouse.

Hoopoe

Hoopoes are colourful birds found across Africa, Asia, and Europe, notable for their distinctive "crown" of feathers. Three living and one extinct species are recognised, though for many years all of the extant species were lumped as a single species—Upupa epops. In fact, some taxonomists still consider all three species conspecific. Some authorities also keep the African and Eurasian hoopoe together but split the Madagascar hoopoe.

Common cuckoo

The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals. This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult is a mimic, in its case of the sparrowhawk; since that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so.

Bee-eater

The bee-eaters are a group of near passerine birds in the family Meropidae, containing three genera and twenty-seven species. Most species are found in Africa and Asia, with a few in southern Europe, Australia, and New Guinea. They are characterised by richly coloured plumage, slender bodies, and usually elongated central tail feathers. All have long downturned bills and medium to long wings, which may be pointed or round. Male and female plumages are usually similar.

Wallcreeper

The wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) is a small passerine bird found throughout the high mountains of the Palearctic from southern Europe to central China. It is the only extant member of both the genus Tichodroma and the family Tichodromidae.

Ibex

An ibex (plural ibex, ibexes or ibices) is any of several species of wild mountain goat (genus Capra), distinguished by the male's large recurved horns, which are transversely ridged in front. Ibex are found in Eurasia, North Africa, and East Africa.

Little owl

The little owl (Athene noctua) is a bird that inhabits much of the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, the Palearctic east to Korea, and North Africa. It was introduced into Britain at the end of the nineteenth century and into the South Island of New Zealand in the early twentieth century. This owl is a member of the typical or true owl family, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl, the other grouping being the barn owls, Tytonidae.

Three-toed woodpecker

The three-toed woodpecker (Picoides Tridactylus) is a medium-sized woodpecker that is found from Northern Europe across northern Asia to Japan. The Eurasian three-toed woodpecker was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.

Conservation:

Fotonatur is highly committed to conservation, we are working on various biodiversity projects.

Our guides are all member of DOPPS-Birdlife Slovenia, which is an independent and non-profit Slovenian nature conservation and ornithological organisation, acting in the public interest of nature conservation, environment protection and research. As a member we all do participate in several projects in a way to help improve natural habitats;
We already have Installed over 140 nest-boxes for different bird species, Ural Owl, Little owl, Hoopoe, little forest birds, Kestrel etc.;
We manage and clean Bee-eater breeding walls;
Spend considerable time and resources to create feeding habitat for birds;

In the future we are looking forward to contributed and participated in several projects which are helping the environment.

We will keep on working on environmental projects and in most help birds as we are doing that already. We do understand strong notice to take care of nature. In 2 years time we hope that we will be dealing with a parallel project which will work only on conservation.

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