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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. It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1

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Seeking the Bahama Nuthatch

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A series of devastating hurricanes in 2016, 2017 and 2019 may have sounded its death knell. It’s hard to ‘prove’ extinction, as we have seen with the continued push to ‘find’ the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.”. If the nuthatch is now extinct, we’ve lost a species that might have been saved with a greater effort to study and protect it.”.

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The Smell of Napalm in the Morning

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Other species of special significance are herons and egrets (this is very important foraging area), Ferruginous Duck, as well as Lesser Spotted and European Green Woodpeckers , Spotted Flycatcher and the Icterine Warbler. Out of these 136 bird species, 108 are strictly protected and further 28 protected by Serbian legislation.

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I Remember Elephants

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Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. But the shocking voice that made the difference and prevented the full protection of elephants was even less expected than the WWF’s stance – the EU vote. And it gave me a hope.

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Birding in Honduras, Part II: Pico Bonito Lodge

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Cuery y Salado Preserve protects a coastal mangrove system full of wildlife from monkeys to trogons. Originally founded in 1925 to test the adaptability and marketability of the plantain, it also protects 1,281 hectacres of tropical lowland forest rich in birds such as Rufous-tailed Jacamar and Pale-billed Woodpecker.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” Tintaya’s woodpeckers also nicely feature tree (and cactus!)

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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So, how do you find the species account for Kestrel if falcons are not placed between woodpeckers and parakeet? WildGuides, Princeton University Press, summer 2016. and population estimate above the map and the bird’s most likely habitats below the map. .” ISBN-10: 0691158894; ISBN-13: 978-0691158891. 560pages, 6.3

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