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Birding Gir National Park, India

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while herbivores are represented by Chital and Sambar (above) deer, Wild Boar , Nilgai antelope, etc. Wild Boar stands next to the road, watching us without nervousness or fear. We’re here for the birds!” Lions aside, carnivores are represented by Leopard , Striped Hyena , Jackal , etc., There is barely enough light for a photo.

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

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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 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5 Golden Jackals in Beljarica.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three wild boars , appearing all black because they had just swam through the swamp to reach the bottom of the levee. I think all were males, at last two huge ones certainly were.

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Freeze-birding down the Danube

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A shot or two coming from the opposite bank, but they do not sound like geese shooting – more like boar hunting. Yeah, right. Also, Little and Great Crested Grebes , Pygmy and Great Cormorants , Eurasian Coots and Common Moorhens , Black-headed and Caspian Gulls … And a lot more birds further in the background.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. I am curious to see whatever awaits us in the Nagzira Tiger Reserve. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us.

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The Lion Forest of India

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while herbivores are represented by Chital (above) and Sambar deer, Wild Boar, Nilgai antelope, etc. Wild Boar stands next to the road, watching us without nervousness or fear. We’re here for the birds!”. Lions aside, carnivores are represented by Leopard, Hyena, Jackal, etc., The largest reptile is the Indian Mugger Crocodile.

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Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park and Lower Peirce Reservoir-Singapore

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There were wild boars and monitors rustling through the leaves as well as the plantain squirrels that we had become so accustomed to. We had not been expecting to see a Banded Woodpecker and there we had one right in front of us. The walk trail at Lower Peirce Reservoir is only 900 metres long and it is a boardwalk.

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