Opening hours in June

On Monday 1st of June opening hours will change as follows:

-> NATURE RESERVE (nature trail, observatories, parking for visitors during the visit) OPEN every day from 6 am to 9 pm; 
-> VISITOR CENTRE (reception, bar and shop) OPEN from to Tuesday to Sunday from 9 am to 7 pm, CLOSED on Monday
-> CENTRAL OBSERVATORY still CLOSED till further notice.

Please still respect the following instructions:
– Wash your hands and cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
– Avoid close contact with other visitors. Stay at least 2 meters from other people.
– Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face cover/ protective mask when you enter in the visitor centre.
– Enter and exit from the visitor centre individually, one at a time.
– Browsing through brochures/magazines is forbidden.
– Respect the instructions of the employees.

Interesting observations, 27th of 2020

🐦Turnstone/Arenaria interpres: 1 ind., lagoon
🦅Hobby/Falco subbuteo: 1 ind., bonifika

🐦Squacco Heron/Ardeola ralloides: 1 ind., bonifika
🐦Purple Heron/Ardea purpurea: 1 ind., bonifika

🐥Avocet/Recurvirostra avosetta: 5 laguna ind., (3 juv)
🐦Kentish Plover/Charadrius alexandrinus: 6 ind., lagoon
🐦Common Sandpiper/Actitis hypoleucos: 1 ind., lagoon
🐦Common Tern/Sterna hirundo: 47 ind., lagoon
🐦Little Tern/Sternula albifrons: 20 ind., lagoon & bonifika
🐦Whiskered Tern/Chlidonias hybrida: 1 nd., bonifika

🐦Zitting Cisticola/Cisticola juncidis: 3 ind., bonifika
🐦Melodious Warbler/Hippolais polyglotta: 3 ind., bonifika & lagoon
🐦Golden Oriole/Oriolus oriolus: 2 ind., bonifika

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Mala čigra/Fratticello/Little Tern/Sternula albifrons, photo: Iztok ŠkornikLittle Tern/Sternula albifrons, photo: Iztok Škornik

 

 

Interesting observations, 19 & 20 May 2020

❗️ Turnstone/Arenaria interpres: 1 os./ind., laguna (second record for Škocjanski zatok Nature Reserve)
▶️ Ringed Plover/Charadrius hiaticula: 1 os./ind., laguna
▶️ Kentish Plover/Charadrius alexandrinus: 4 laguna
▶️ Little Ringed Plover/Charadrius dubius: laguna

▶️ Whiskered Tern/Chlidonias hybrida: 1 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Little Bittern/Ixobrychus minutus: 2 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Squacco Heron/Ardeola ralloides: 4 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Purple Heron/Ardea purpurea: 2 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Sand Martin/Riparia riparia: 5 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Zitting Cisticola/Cisticola juncidis: 2 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Melodious Warbler/Hippolais polyglotta: 3 os./ind., bonifika & laguna
▶️ Lesser Whitethroat/Sylvia curruca: 1 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Golden Oriole/Oriolus oriolus: 2 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Avocet/Recurvirostra avosetta: 4 laguna (3 speljani mladiči/juv)

▶️ Common Tern/Sterna hirundo: 47 os./ind. laguna
▶️ Little Tern/Sternula albifrons: 23 os./ind., laguna & bonifika

Mala čigra/Fratticello/Little Tern/Sternula albifrons & Little Ringed Plover/Charadrius dubius, photo: Domen Stanič

Nature Reserve will be reopened for visitors on 21st of May

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Škocjanski zatok Nature Reserve will be reopened for visitors on Thursday 21st of May 2020.
Until further notice the opening hours will be as follows:
VISITOR CENTRE (reception, shop, bar): 9am – 4pm, closed on Monday
NATURE RESERVE (nature trail, observatories, parking for visitors): 7am – 5pm
CENTRAL OBSERVATORY: CLOSED until further notice

Please respect the following instructions:
– Wash your hands and cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
– Avoid close contact with other visitors. Stay at least 2 meters from other people.
– Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face cover/ protective mask when you enter in the visitor centre.
– Enter and exit from the visitor centre individually, one at a time.
– Browsing through brochures/magazines is forbidden.
– Respect the instructions of the employees.

Interesting observations, 13th of May 2020

▶️Pygmy Cormorant/Microcarbo pygmaeus: 1 ind., laguna
▶️Spoonbill/Platalea leucorodia: 2 ind., bonifika
▶️Little Bittern/Ixobrychus minutus: 3 ind., bonifika
▶️Squacco Heron/Ardeola ralloides: 4 ind., bonifika
▶️Purple Heron/Ardea purpurea: 2 ind., bonifika
▶️Shelduck/Tadorna tadorna: 3 ind., laguna

▶️Marsh Harrier/Circus aeruginosus: 1 ind., bonifika

▶️Black-winged Stilt/Himantopus himantopus: 33 ind., laguna & bonifika
▶️Avocet/Recurvirostra avosetta: 4 ind., laguna
▶️Kentish Plover/Charadrius alexandrinus: 6 ind., laguna
▶️Common Sandpiper/Actitis hypoleucos: 2 ind., laguna
▶️Wood Sandpiper/Tringa glareola: 2 ind., bonifika

▶️Common Tern/Sterna hirundo: 56 ind., laguna
▶️Little Tern/Sternula albifrons: 18 ind., laguna & bonifika
▶️White-winged Tern/Chlidonias leucopterus: 1 ind., bonifika

▶️Sand Martin/Riparia riparia: 2 ind., bonifika
▶️Yellow Wagtail/Motacilla flava: 10 ind., laguna & bonifika
▶️Zitting Cisticola/Cisticola juncidis: 2 ind., bonifika
▶️Great Reed Warbler/Acrocephalus arundinaceus: 20 ind., bonifika
▶️Reed Warbler/Acrocephalus scirpaceus: 15 ind., bonifika
▶️Sedge Warbler/Acrocephalus schoenobaenus: 12 ind., bonifika

▶️Melodious Warbler/Hippolais polyglotta: 1 ind., bonifika
▶️Garden Warbler/Sylvia borin: 1 ind., bonifika
▶️Spotted Flycatcher/Muscicapa striata: 1 ind., bonifika
▶️Red-backed Shrike/Lanius collurio: 2 ind., bonifika
▶️Golden Oriole/Oriolus oriolus: 2 ind., bonifika

🐸Tree Frog/Hyla arborea: 1 ind., bonifika
🦌Roe Deer/Capreolus capreolus: 1 ind., bonifika
🦊Fox/Vulpes vulpes: 1 ind., bonifika

Photo: Bia Rakar
Roe Deer/Capreolus capreolus, photo: Domen Stanič

Interesting observations, 7th of May 2020

▶️ Squacco Heron/Ardeola ralloides: 1 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Purple Heron/Ardea purpurea: 2 os./ind., bonifika

▶️ Shelduck/Tadorna tadorna: 4 os./ind., laguna

▶️ Black-winged Stilt/Himantopus himantopus: 33 os./ind., laguna & bonifika
▶️ Recurvirostra avosetta: 2 laguna
▶️ Kentish Plover/Charadrius alexandrinus: 2 os./ind., laguna
▶️ Ruff/Calidris pugnax: 19 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Common Sandpiper/Actitis hypoleucos: 1 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Wood Sandpiper/Tringa glareola: 2 os./ind., bonifika

▶️ Mediterranean Gull/Larus melanocephalus: 24 os./ind., laguna
▶️ Common Tern/Sterna hirundo: 52 os./ind., laguna
▶️ Little Tern/Sternula albifrons: 15 os./ind., laguna & bonifika

▶️ Turtle Dove/Streptopelia turtur: 1 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Sand Martin/Riparia riparia: 30 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Yellow Wagtail/Motacilla flava: 8 laguna & os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Nightingale/Luscinia megarhynchos: 9 os./ind., bonifika & laguna
▶️ Zitting Cisticola/Cisticola juncidis: 2 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Great Reed Warbler/Acrocephalus arundinaceus: 25 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Marsh Warbler/Acrocephalus palustris: 2 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Reed Warbler/Acrocephalus scirpaceus: 28 os./ind., bonifika

Photo: Bia Rakar
Mediterranean Gull/Larus melanocephalus, photo: Domen Stanič

Interesting observastions, 24&30 April 2020

▶️ Night Heron/Nycticorax nycticorax: 2 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Little Bittern/Ixobrychus minutus: 2 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Squacco Heron/Ardeola ralloides: 2 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Purple Heron/Ardea purpurea: 3 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Spoonbill/Platalea leucorodia: 1 os./ind., laguna
▶️ Shelduck/Tadorna tadorna: 3 os./ind., laguna

▶️ Spotted Crake/Porzana porzana: 1 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Black-winged Stilt/Himantopus himantopus: 31 os./ind., laguna & bonifika
▶️ Avocet/Recurvirostra avosetta: 3 os./ind., laguna

▶️ Common Sandpiper/Actitis hypoleucos: 8 os./ind., laguna
▶️ Spotted Redshank/Tringa erythropus: 1 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Marsh Sandpiper/Tringa stagnatilis: 1 laguna
▶️ Wood Sandpiper/Tringa glareola: 4 os./ind., bonifika

▶️ Mediterranean Gull/Larus melanocephalus: 14 laguna
▶️ Common Tern/Sterna hirundo: 54 os./ind., laguna
▶️ Little Tern/Sternula albifrons: 16 laguna & os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Whiskered Tern/Chlidonias hybrida: 1 os./ind., bonifika

▶️ Upupa/Upupa epops: 1 laguna
▶️ Wryneck/Jynx torquilla: 1 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Sand Martin/Riparia riparia: 10 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Nightingale/Luscinia megarhynchos: 12 os./ind., bonifika & laguna
▶️ Common Redstart/Phoenicurus phoenicurus: 1 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Zitting Cisticola/Cisticola juncidis: 2 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Great Reed Warbler/Acrocephalus arundinaceus: 15 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Sedge Warbler/Acrocephalus schoenobaenus: 5 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Reed Warbler/Acrocephalus scirpaceus: 5 os./ind., bonifika
▶️ Red-backed Shrike/Lanius collurio: 2 os./ind., bonifika

Squacco Heron/Ardeola ralloides, photo: Domen StaničČOPASTA ČAPLJA/Sgarza ciuffetto/Squacco Heron/Ardeola ralloides, foto: Domen Stanič