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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

10,000 Birds

I chalked up 132 species in a pretty relaxed eight days, during which birds shared the agenda with culture. In some years, Spanish Sparrows were reported breeding inside White Storks nests in Sakule. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, wildlife is still more commonly sold to foreign hunters. eBird bar chart. #1

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

10,000 Birds

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?

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