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The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

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Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds. The Pastures of Great Bustard occupy 6770 ha of extensive steppe, bordered by meadows, pasture, arable fields and seasonally inundated depressions in the north of the country, towards the triple border with Romania and Hungary.

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Eastern Imperial Breakfast

10,000 Birds

Curiously, some eagles were also observed by the Ada Ciganlija Island, within Belgrade – in the breeding season! But persecution, killing and poisoning in the late 20th century has led to their demise and at the beginning of the new millennium, Serbia had only two to three pairs of Imperial Eagles. We must be doing something wrong?

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary. The helper birds play an important role in the survival of the chicks as well as assisting in excavating a suitable cavity for the breeding pair. Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System.

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The Danube Backwaters

10,000 Birds

The last beaver in the area was killed ten miles to the east – near Pancevo around the year 1900, but, reintroduced some dozen years ago, there are some 150 of them in the country nowadays. But, published in 1921 in Budapest, Hungary, it was written in Hungarian. Yet, I never heard the splash of a beaver tail when it dives.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. The Russians began by breeding a group of foxes according to one simple rule: they would walk up to a cage and put a hand on the bars. Foxes that slunk back in fear and snapped their teeth didn’t get to breed.

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