The common nightingale is an amazing singing bird, having the most complex and melodically pleasant bird song, which consists of up to 250 sound combinations. Nightingale chicks reproduce the sounds heard from their father. The richer father’s repertoire, the more complex the singing of the grown birds will be. Because nightingales learn singing form each … Continue reading Common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) singing tour

After twisting its way through northern Russia gaining volume, the Volga River splits into a fan of more than 250 channels that flow through the arid steppes of southern Russia before spilling into the Caspian Sea. Roughly the size and shape of the state of California, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest inland sea, … Continue reading Astrakhansky Nature Preserve (Zapovednik)

One of the most interesting individual and group tours is to the North-Western part of Russia not far from the Finnish border. This tour offers a several day stay in St. Petersburg, the largest city in the world located above the 60th parallel. It includes excursions to the Hermitage, St. Petersburg zoological museum, which is … Continue reading Olonetsky Wildlife and Nizhnesvirsky Nature Preserves