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Guide to birding the Forgotten Road in the Djerdap National Park, Serbia

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And in order to evaluate its potential, my agenda was to spend whole two days in the park and to produce the best possible evaluation based on that visit. But your reason to check the canyon is a White-throated Dipper that breeds there and with some luck, you may even encounter a Rock Bunting.

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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I chalked up 132 species in a pretty relaxed eight days, during which birds shared the agenda with culture. Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. In some years, Spanish Sparrows were reported breeding inside White Storks nests in Sakule. eBird bar chart. #2 2 Baranda fish farm. eBird bar chart. #1

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010. Lots to think about.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

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The population decline is generally blamed on habitat destruction and introduced predators, but inter-breeding may also be to blame. Furthermore the migratory shorebirds that leave our shores to travel to their breeding grounds in the north risk habitat loss on their stopover feeding grounds. … Extinction is forever.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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Lesser Spotted Eagles breed regularly with around 100 pairs in Germany, but unless you know where the territories are you are unlikely to see them. Shore Larks were therefore very high on my agenda during the last few days of the year as I found myself on the island Sylt, where they can frequently be found in salt marshes along the coast.

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