Nature Tours Pygmy Owl Arek Szymura

19/06/2024

The closed zone is only 200 m from the border and not in every part of the forest. Where the zone is wider there is no hiking access anyway. All hiking trails are accessible. You are welcome :)

14/06/2024

He, she and the cleaning of the breeding hole

07/07/2022

On the road... in the Strict Reserve...

10/06/2022

In study (published online 3 June 2022) in Science of The Total Environment, we discovered that due to the recreational use of forest paths by humans, fewer deer are seen in the proximity—up to 20 metres—of these paths. This leads to a drastic decrease (by 62%) in the number of ticks near paths, and therefore also in the risk of people getting bitten by ticks. Our study reveals an unexplored effect of human activities on ecosystems and how this knowledge could be potentially used to mitigate zoonotic disease risk.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722033198?via%3Dihub=

Altered interactions between pathogens, their hosts and vectors have potential consequences for human disease risk. Notably, tick-borne pathogens, man…

23/04/2022

A humid spring offers a chance to look in the mirror...

22/04/2022

Dancing with the camera around a tree blown by the wind...

15/04/2022

Three-toed woodpecker on a good branch can drummer as loud as black ...

16/02/2022

Pre springtime... Which means it's time to change your fur...

24/01/2022

about pygmy and tengmans owls

Erkki Korpimäki is Emeritus Professor of Animal Ecology in the Department of Biology at the University of Turku, Finland. For 50 years, he has studied Boreal...

31/12/2021

Such a birdlike ending to 2021 ... :-)

27/11/2021

herds...

27/11/2021

Males only...

05/11/2021

Suny morning :)

21/09/2021

There are various observers in the reed deer rut...

19/08/2021

Wszystkie dzieci są takie same... ;)

13/08/2021

14/07/2021

How many European bison do you see here?

02/06/2021

And in the evening such a concert :-)

02/06/2021

There was also a female :-)

02/06/2021

In the morning over head :-)

09/05/2021

For such views it is worth getting up early in the morning :)

26/04/2021

Lets hunt ;)