Tour Diary - Georgia & Armenia, Birds & Wildlife of the Caucasus

25th April - 5th May 2025

We couldn’t have asked for our inaugural tour to Georgia and Armenia to be any more successful. Our 12-day tour explored the best they had to offer from the high Caucasus to semi-desert, expansive wetlands, steppe grassland, rich forests and alpine meadows and produced an incredible array of species with over 200 birds, 10 mammals and a plethora of plants and invertebrates. Highlights came daily, but standouts were four Brown Bears, a pack of four Grey Wolves, Caspian and Caucasian Snowcock, Caucasian Black Grouse, incredible views of Eastern and Western Rock Nuthatch together, White-throated Robin, Güldenstädt’s Redstart, Great Rosefinch, Pale Rockfinch, a subtly beautiful and rare orchid called Steveniella satyrioides, fields of Poppies, impressive volcanoes, Bezoar Goats, Grey-necked Buntings, Scorpions, European Widow Spiders, huge vistas, ancient monasteries, Wallcreepers, migrating raptors, Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters against a rainbow and many, many more highlights. We even found Georgia’s third (and Azerbaijan’s first) Bateleur! As if this abundance of superb wildlife wasn’t enough every day revealed more incredible vistas and there was always a table of mouth-watering food at every meal.

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