Saugūniškės is a village in Vilnius District Municipality, eastern Lithuania. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, it has 8 inhabitants.
Surroundings of Saugūniškės are famous for crane roost. Village is known as one of the northernmost known points of Tachytes panzeri distribution in Europe.Naujos ir retos Lietuvos vabzdžių rūšys. T. 19. P. 64.
History Bishop Ignotas Jokūbas Masalskis and Teodora Sapiegienė built a church and a manor house in Sudervė (village south of Saugūniškės). Saugūniškės was assigned to the church. From 1797 to 1820, the village was leased to a nobleman Simonas Baginavičius who worked as the church organist.
During the Soviet era in Lithuania (1960-1970), a drainage system was built in the area. cranes bread in the undeveloped areas of the village. The village has a logn stream which flows into the Gnesvianka.
Notable people (born 1942) is a hydrobotanist and a scientist.
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