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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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Also, it is a part of the international ecological corridor and the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA), already proposed for a nature reserve by the Government’s Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy.

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The 701 Long-eared Owl of Kikinda

10,000 Birds

Have you heard of a small town in Serbia graced by the presence of its 700 communally roosting Long-eared Owls ? Rightfully, this town centre doubles as a nature reserve – an officially protected owl habitat. Many social network protesters found it obscene. Actually, the numbers are even higher.

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