10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica. Serbia has a right-centre Government that for years avoided protecting any of the already proposed areas, heavily pushing the development at whatever cost and miserably failing the environment. It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 Golden Jackals in Beljarica.

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Serbia Protection Deer Boars 277

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

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. You can park by the side and check the Boljetinska River Canyon at your right, a true geological history book. Somrda Peak (810 m a.s.l.)

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Romania 248

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

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. Common Kingfisher , Common Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river.

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Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

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. Here’s the view of the owl: Note the eye on the right, a tiny slit is open and you can see the pupil.

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Owls Barn Owls Agenda Zoos 266

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

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. Thanks, Marsh Sandpiper (seen on the right with a redshank on the pic below), your presence was highly appreciated!

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Here’s a tidbit from the NRA’s Hunters’ Rights website: “Sandhill cranes are hunted much like geese, with decoys set in fields and hunters stationed in blinds. AND you can use lead shot, which will impact any scavenger like a bald eagle that happens to feed on the carcass you leave. Wicked, right?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 250