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The Belgrade Amazon Campaign or the House of the Eagle

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Annex II of the Bern Convention lists 45 of Beljarica’s bird species, with a further 91 species in Annex III. The Convention on Migratory Species (the Bonn Convention) lists two of these species – the Ferruginous Duck and the White-tailed Eagle – in Annex I, with a further 64 species in the Annex II.

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Birding Beljarica in August

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August is possibly the best month there, because you gradually observe the rise and fall of numbers of various migrating species, which use it as a stopover site to fatten up ahead of the long hauls further south. On several occasions, early in the morning a Brown Hare would greet me, and once a Wild Boar waved me goodbye.

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

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It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5 In August 2016, the newly planned Chinese Belt and Road harbour development inside the most valuable 9 km2 / 3.5 mi2 of the proposed reserve was announced.

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