Which bird species do you think is the biggest attraction to visitors to your lodge (please name only one species)?
Saker Falcon
What is the name of your lodge, and since when has your lodge been operating?
Ecotours Kondor Ecolodge, since 2008.
How best to travel to your lodge?
It is a 1-hour drive from Budapest airport, we can provide a private transfer
Great Bustard
What kind of services – except for accommodation and food – does your lodge offer to visiting birders?
- Full-day guided tours, private or for groups
- Several fixed and popup photography blinds,
- Several bird feeders
- Transfers
Golden Oriole
What makes your lodge special?
We are at the center of the huge Kiskunsag National Park, each day it is possible to visit different areas, but even the garden and the surrounding areas are full of attractive species; we cater to only birders and nature lovers
Red-footed Falcon
What are the 10 – 20 most interesting birds your lodge offers good chances to see?
- Saker Falcon
- Red-footed Falcon
- Eastern Imperial Eagle
- Great Bustard
- Eurasian Roller
- Syrian Woodpecker
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Middle Spotted Woodpecker
- Montague’s Harrier
- European Nightjar
- Eurasian Scops Owl
- Squacco Heron
- Purple Heron
- Eurasian Penduline Tit
- Bluethroat
- Golden Oriole
- Tawny Pipit
- Ferruginous Duck
- Nightjar
- Spoonbill
- Hawfinch
Syrian Woodpecker
What is the best time to visit your lodge, and why?
- May – all migratory birds arrive back, singing, displaying, mating
- June – all birds are busy feeding, good for photography
- Beginning of July – Roller, Hoopoe, Bee-eater feeding large chicks – excellent for photos
- September-October – 10s of thousands of geese, cranes, etc.
Eurasian Roller
Eurasian Hoopoe
Eurasian Bee-eater
Is your lodge involved in conservation efforts? If yes, please describe them.
Yes, we have put out more than 500 specially designed nestboxes for Rollers, Hoopoes, Scops and Little Owls
Eurasian Scops Owl
What other suggestions can you give to birders interested in visiting your lodge?
Our area is generally dry, June, July can be hot.
Eurasian Penduline Tit
Do you have activities for non-birders? If so, please describe.
We know a wide variety of wildlife around us, butterflies, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and wildflowers. We run a professional moth trap and have a bat detector.
Squacco Heron
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is interested in staying at your lodge, how can they best contact you?
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