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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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Birding Beljarica in August

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Last month, I birded my favourite local patch, Beljarica – the best eBird hotspot in Belgrade city and the 3rd best in Serbia – four times. On several occasions, early in the morning a Brown Hare would greet me, and once a Wild Boar waved me goodbye. but because this large spillway protects the city from flooding.

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The Belgrade Amazon Campaign or the House of the Eagle

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While Serbia claims to strive towards the EU membership, it is back to the Chinese credit and Chinese environmental standards. Were the hydrologists of 1920s worried where the fish will spawn, Wild Boars fatten and eagles nest? Annex II of the Bern Convention lists 45 of Beljarica’s bird species, with a further 91 species in Annex III.

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