Brown Bear
The European brown bear is a subspecies of brown bear that was once widespread in Eurasia and North America.Part of population lives in Croatian part of Dinaric massive and after Carpathians is second largest in Europe.In Western Europe the brown bear is almost extinct and the remeaning populations are small, separated and disappearing.
Wild Boar
Wild Boar (lat. Sus scrofa) is very common in Croatia. He lives in packs mostly around humid forests. Wild boar is hunt with chasing dogs, drive, stalking and waiting.
Roe Deer
Roe (ordinary roe deer, lat. Capreolus capreolus) is a wild animal that is geographically widespread in Central Europe.
In Croatia, roe is most widespread in the continental part (Slavonija, Baranja and Gorski Kotar), and is rare in coastal areas. Distribution by countries of the region ranges as follows: Croatia 29%, Slovenia 23%, Bosnia and Herzegovina 14% and Macedonia 19%.
Red Deer
Red deer (lat. Cervus elaphus)
Widespread in Europe, mostly in the forest complexes of major river streams – Dunav, Sava, Drava and mountain forests of Hungary, Romania, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovenia, Germany, Austria, and in smaller numbers in Poland, Europian parto of Russia, Norway, Sweeden, Spain, France and Denmark.
Woodcock
Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola L.) is traditional game in Croatia. During the spring and autumn migration, woodcock remain for a short period of time in our hunting grounds. While in migration, they search for moist soil in hornbeam and oak forests, because of its characteristic diet.
Wild Duck
Wild Duck (lat. Anas platyrhynchos). Duck hunting, most often the mall, (Duck Hunting, Caccia alle Anatra), is very popular, especially among Italian hunters. The ducks are hunted by waiting to fly over, before and after sunset, when leaving the water and fly in the inland looking for food, duck still love it will look for the dogs.
Hunting seasons of major game species in Croatia
Main game | Season by months | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | XI | XII |
Red Deer "stag" | from 16. VIII. to 14. I. | ||||||||||||
Female | from 1. X. to 14. I. | ||||||||||||
Calf | from 1. X. to 31. I. | ||||||||||||
Wild Boar |
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Female | from 1. VII. to 31. I. | ||||||||||||
Male, Gilt and Piglet | all seasons (no closed season) | ||||||||||||
Roe Deer |
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Male | from 1. V. to 30. IX. | ||||||||||||
Female and Calf | from 1. X. to 31. I |