10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
Twenty years ago, flocks consisting of a thousand European Turtle Doves were a common sight in Serbia in spring. As we speak, in Serbia these birds are still hunted in August and September. In all European Union countries to the north and east of Serbia (except Romania), Turtle Doves are strictly protected.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2019
When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there. The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season. All in the name of progress.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
Nearby, the Karas River is anything but a river – in this section, it is a water body that was killed by cutting off its curves, covering banks with rocks and concrete and forcing the former river to flow in the straight line. Trips Europe Serbia wetlands' A lot of Mallard on the river, some Eurasian Coots and a few Common Goldeneyes.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2023
She accompanies Luke on his Barn Owl counting, a heartening and optimistic chore now that British farmers have learned to prefer owls, as a pest control method, to strychnine, which kills rats but also the owls that feed on them.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
I am preparing for the new census of one of the rarest birds of Serbia, the globally threatened Great Bustard , taking place two days from now. Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds. m–8 ft 10 in).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2019
The other day I counted my favourite section of the Danube River, the wide and shallow Labudovo okno Ramsar site in Serbia. The biggest count ever was less than 10 birds in the whole of Serbia. Several poachers were waiting in ever thickening darkness (Serbian legislation forbids night hunting). we will kill it!”,
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2018
As you know, I started to bird from a canoe, exploring the Danube backwaters in Belgrade, Serbia. 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. Nevertheless, Nagy was right.
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