Estonia: One Of The World’s Strongest Populations Of Wolves And Lynxes

Several good reasons to visit Estonian nature:

• Estonia’s population of wolves and lynxes is one of the strongest in the world.
• Estonia has the world’s leading role in organising the protection and restoring of the European mink
• We have 3-5 times more bears per km² than our neighbouring countries.
• About 10 per cent of the whole Common Crane population in Europe visit Estonia every autumn.
• Black Stork, Hazel Grouse, Capercaillie and Nutcracker. 40,000 pairs Hazel Grouse nesting here
• Brown bears, wolves, lynxes, European beavers and flying squirrel
• Flocks of Steller´s Eider
• 8 species of woodpeckers
• Compared with Poland, four times as many Ural Owls and six times as many White-backed Woodpeckers breed in Estonia.
• More White-backed Woodpeckers may nest in one national park in Estonia than in the whole of Sweden!
• Atmospheric pine forests – habitats to Ural and Pygmy Owls
• 36 species of Orchids have been found in…