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

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White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica. Yet, the environmental problems are pulling people together, uniting the people with very different political views with the simplest of all agendas: “We want to breathe clean air, we want clean tap water.” It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1

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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. Among the possible species there are Rock Bunting , Eurasian Wryneck , Grey-headed and Eurasian Green Woodpeckers , European Honey Buzzard , Lesser Spotted Eagle.

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How Close Is “Too Close” To An Owl?

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For a much larger Eurasian Eagle Owl, it compresses to look like a branch, even aiming it’s more bark like wing feathers towards the predator and closes its eyes, to complete the disguise, small owls will do that with us too. They don’t know that’s not on your agenda. We love those eyes.

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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. My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. eBird bar chart. #4 eBird bar chart. #1

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

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AND you can use lead shot, which will impact any scavenger like a bald eagle that happens to feed on the carcass you leave. Those opposed have anti-hunting agendas and can not be allowed to dictate what game species are hunted. You don’t have to buy a special license to hunt a crane. It’s free!

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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Lesser Spotted Eagle , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. 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. This allowed for my first very nice views at this species since the year 2001, which made me very happy.

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