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The best-kept birding secrets of Belgrade

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The very best wetland birding around Belgrade, Serbia, is not to be found in the locally famous and tourist-promoted Obedska or Carska Bara Ramsar areas, but at Beljarica Backwaters and the fish farm triangle of Centa, Baranda and Sakule villages, in the Tamis River floodplain. If there were rains recently, this section of 0.3

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Birding northern Serbia, or a sudden bird tour

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One Roe Deer buck ran across our path. Passing by the Ecka fish farm, the largest inland fish farm of Europe, we visited the Belo Jezero Lake to pick Ferruginous Duck , Black and Whiskered Terns , Pygmy Cormorant , Squacco Heron , Eurasian Spoonbill , Great Reed and Savi’s Warblers. Brown Hares were everywhere. who dipped it).

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Summer Birding at Conboy Lake NWR

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Fish and Wildlife Service cannot effectively restore the lake or other natural hydrology. A deer watches me as I watch it from the observation platform. The namesake “lake” generally only exists when there is enough runoff during the spring, as the area was extensively modified for farming years ago.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic. So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was. Slaght in the film version?

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Gaur Morning

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Grey-headed Fish Eagle Copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj. In the north of the reserve, by the Tadoba Lake, a herd of Chital Deer is grazing, with a familiar sight of Cattle Egrets around them. A Mugger Crocodile swims in the middle of the lake, while at the jungle edge three Sambar Deer rise and walk away as we approach.

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Returning to St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge

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A giant alligator lolled near a pond, herons and egrets stalked the shallow mudflats for prey, Black Skimmers flew low over the surface of the water to scoop up tiny fish. Deer wade into the shallows to munch on marsh grass, trailing fawns behind them. The highlight for me in the inland wetlands remains a Marbled Godwit , my first.

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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

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Travel onto the world famous Kaziranga National Park and you will have very good chances of more endangered species such as Pallas’s Fish Eagle , vultures, Swamp Francolin , and both species of Adjutant Storks. You are certain to see Greater One-horned Rhinoceros , Water Buffalo and Hog Deer , and with a bit of luck Smooth-coated Otters.

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