The floodplains of Beljarica, north of the Pupin’s Bridge, are the home of the very best birding in Belgrade. Located between the River Danube and the levee, Beljarica is a spacious flood retention basin (2.1 km at its widest point) of seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, with stands of oak and ash, yet largely under industrial black poplar plantations, river arms and ponds. 60 mammal (Wild Boar, Roe Deer, Wildcat, Golden Jackal, Eurasian Otter, Eurasian Beaver) and 185 190 bird species (155 of (160 of them strictly protected) were recorded here. Among them are breeding Black Storks and no less than 3 pairs of White-tailed Eagles.
SPRING: Waterbirds recorded in Beljarica include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck, Black-crowned Night Heron and the Squacco Heron. Marsh Harrier is present year-round. Common Kingfisher, Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. In spring, look out for the Alpine Swift (breeding in the city). Also, breeding Red-backed Shrike, Penduline Tit, Icterine Warbler, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler and Barred Warbler certainly deserve a mention. Black Woodpecker is characteristic of the area, as well as the Eurasian Hobby.
In WINTER months, there would be numerous Great Egrets, ducks and cormorants, Hen Harrier and Marsh Harriers, an extrovert Eurasian Sparrowhawk, possibly a more introvert Northern Goshawk too, half a dozen to a dozen White-tailed Eagles. Also, a rare Greater Spotted Eagle was spotted here in December (only about a dozen of them overwinter in Serbia). Other notable species are Great Grey Shrike, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Water Pipit and Meadow Pipits, flocks of Bramblings, Hawfinches and Yellowhammers…
PROTECTION STATUS: Beljarica is a part of the international ecological corridor along the Danube River, the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA) and, from August 2022, part of the new, backwaters nature reserve "Foreland of the Left Bank of the Danube near Belgrade", also known as the Belgrade Amazonia.
THREATS: Despite the fact that Beljarica is protected within the Danube Foreland Reserve, in April 2023 the Minister of Construction, Goran Vesić, announced its total annihilation through the construction of the new Port of Belgrade inside and instead of Beljarica Reserve!
The floodplains of Beljarica, north of the Pupin’s Bridge, are the home of the very best birding in Belgrade. Located between the River Danube and the levee, Beljarica is a spacious flood retention basin (2.1 km at its widest point) of seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, with stands of oak and ash, yet largely under industrial black poplar plantations, river arms and ponds. 60 mammal (Wild Boar, Roe Deer, Wildcat, Golden Jackal, Eurasian Otter, Eurasian Beaver) and 185 bird species (155 of them strictly protected) were recorded here. Among them are breeding Black Storks and no less than 3 pairs of White-tailed Eagles.
SPRING: Waterbirds recorded in Beljarica include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck, Black-crowned Night Heron and the Squacco Heron. Marsh Harrier is present year-round. Common Kingfisher, Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. In spring, look out for the Alpine Swift (breeding in the city). Also, breeding Red-backed Shrike, Penduline Tit, Icterine Warbler, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler and Barred Warbler certainly deserve a mention. Black Woodpecker is characteristic of the area, as well as the Eurasian Hobby.
In WINTER months, there would be numerous Great Egrets, ducks and cormorants, Hen Harrier and Marsh Harriers, an extrovert Eurasian Sparrowhawk, possibly a more introvert Northern Goshawk too, half a dozen to a dozen White-tailed Eagles. Also, a rare Greater Spotted Eagle was spotted here in December (only about a dozen of them overwinter in Serbia). Other notable species are Great Grey Shrike, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Water Pipit and Meadow Pipits, flocks of Bramblings, Hawfinches and Yellowhammers…
PROTECTION STATUS: Beljarica is a part of the international ecological corridor along the Danube River, the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA) and, from August 2022, part of the new, backwaters nature reserve "Foreland of the Left Bank of the Danube near Belgrade", also known as the Belgrade Amazonia.
THREATS: Despite the fact that Beljarica is protected within the Danube Foreland Reserve, in April 2023 the Minister of Construction, Goran Vesić, announced its total annihilation through the construction of the new Port of Belgrade inside Beljarica!and instead of Beljarica Reserve!
The floodplains of Beljarica, north of the Pupin’s Bridge, are the home of the very best birding in Belgrade. Located between the River Danube and the levee, Beljarica is a spacious flood retention basin, 2.basin (2.1 km at its widest point and some 9 km2 of point) of seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, with stands of oak and ash, yet largely under industrial black poplar plantations, river arms and ponds. 60 mammal (Wild Boar, Roe Deer, Wildcat, Golden Jackal, Eurasian Otter, Eurasian Beaver) and 185 bird species (155 of them strictly protected) were recorded here. Among them are breeding Black Storks and no less than 3 pairs of White-tailed Eagles.
SPRING: Waterbirds recorded in Beljarica include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck, Black-crowned Night Heron and the Squacco Heron. Marsh Harrier is present year-round. Common Kingfisher, Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. In spring, look out for the Alpine Swift (breeding in the city). Also, breeding Red-backed Shrike, Penduline Tit, Icterine Warbler, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler and Barred Warbler certainly deserve a mention. Black Woodpecker is characteristic of the area, as well as the Eurasian Hobby.
In WINTER months, there would be numerous Great Egrets, ducks and cormorants, Hen Harrier and Marsh Harriers, an extrovert Eurasian Sparrowhawk, possibly a more introvert Northern Goshawk too, half a dozen to a dozen White-tailed Eagles. Also, a rare Greater Spotted Eagle was spotted here in December (only about a dozen of them overwinter in Serbia). Other notable species are Great Grey Shrike, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Water Pipit and Meadow Pipits, flocks of Bramblings, Hawfinches and Yellowhammers…
PROTECTION STATUS: Also, Beljarica is a part of the international ecological corridor along the Danube River, the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA) and, from August 2022, part of the new, backwaters nature reserve "Foreland of the Left Bank of the Danube near Belgrade", also known as the Belgrade Amazonia.
THREATS: Despite the fact that Beljarica is protected within the Danube Foreland Reserve, in April 2023 the Minister of Construction, Goran Vesić, announced the construction of the new Port of Belgrade inside Beljarica!
The floodplains of Beljarica, north of the Pupin’s Bridge, are the home of the very best birding in Belgrade. Located between the River Danube and the levee, Beljarica is a spacious flood retention basin of Belgrade, basin, 2.1 km at its widest point and some 9 km2 of seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, with stands of oak and ash, yet largely under industrial black poplar plantations, river arms and ponds. 60 mammal (Wild Boar, Roe Deer, Wildcat, Golden Jackal, Eurasian Otter, Eurasian Beaver) and 185 bird species (155 of them strictly protected) were recorded here. Among them are breeding Black Storks and no less than 3 pairs of White-tailed Eagles.
SPRING: Waterbirds recorded in Beljarica include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck, Black-crowned Night Heron and the Squacco Heron. Marsh Harrier is present year-round. Common Kingfisher, Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. In spring, look out for the Alpine Swift (breeding in the city). Also, breeding Red-backed Shrike, Penduline Tit, Icterine Warbler, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler and Barred Warbler certainly deserve a mention. Black Woodpecker is characteristic of the area, as well as the Eurasian Hobby.
In WINTER months, there would be numerous Great Egrets, ducks and cormorants, Hen Harrier and Marsh Harriers, an extrovert Eurasian Sparrowhawk, possibly a more introvert Northern Goshawk too, half a dozen to a dozen White-tailed Eagles. Also, a rare Greater Spotted Eagle was spotted here in December (only about a dozen of them overwinter in Serbia). Other notable species are Great Grey Shrike, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Water Pipit and Meadow Pipits, flocks of Bramblings, Hawfinches and Yellowhammers…
PROTECTION STATUS: Also, Beljarica is a part of the international ecological corridor along the Danube River, the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA) and, from August 2022, part of the new, backwaters nature reserve "Foreland of the Left Bank of the Danube near Belgrade", also known as the Belgrade Amazonia.
THREATS: Despite the fact that Beljarica is protected within the Danube Foreland Reserve, in April 2023 the Minister of Construction, Goran Vesić, announced the construction of the new Port of Belgrade inside Beljarica!
The floodplains of Beljarica, north of the Pupin’s Bridge, are the home of the very best birding in Belgrade. Located between the River Danube and the levee, Beljarica is a spacious flood retention basin of Belgrade, 2.1 km at its widest point and some 9 km2 of seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, with stands of oak and ash, yet largely under industrial black poplar plantations, river arms and ponds. 60 mammal (Wild Boar, Roe Deer, Wildcat, Golden Jackal, Eurasian Otter, Eurasian Beaver) and 185 bird species (155 of them strictly protected) were recorded here. Among them are breeding Black Storks and no less than 3 pairs of White-tailed Eagles.
SPRING: Waterbirds recorded in Beljarica include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck, Black-crowned Night Heron and the Squacco Heron. Marsh Harrier is present year-round. Common Kingfisher, Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. In spring, look out for the Alpine Swift (breeding in the city). Also, breeding Red-backed Shrike, Penduline Tit, Icterine Warbler, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler and Barred Warbler certainly deserve a mention. Black Woodpecker is characteristic of the area, as well as the Eurasian Hobby.
In WINTER months, there would be numerous Great Egrets, ducks and cormorants, Hen Harrier and Marsh Harriers, an extrovert Eurasian Sparrowhawk, possibly a more introvert Northern Goshawk too, half a dozen to a dozen White-tailed Eagles. Also, a rare Greater Spotted Eagle was spotted here in December (only about a dozen of them overwinter in Serbia). Other notable species are Great Grey Shrike, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Water Pipit and Meadow Pipits, flocks of Bramblings, Hawfinches and Yellowhammers…
PROTECTION STATUS: Beljarica is a part of the international ecological corridor along the Danube River, the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA) and, from August 2022, part of the new, backwaters nature reserve "Foreland of the Left Bank of the Danube near Belgrade", also known as the Belgrade Amazonia.
THREATS: Despite the fact that Beljarica is protected within the Danube Foreland Reserve, in April 2023 the Minister of Construction, Goran Vesić, announced the construction of the new Port of Belgrade inside Beljarica!
The floodplains of Beljarica, north of the Pupin’s Bridge, are the home of the very best birding in Belgrade. Located between the River Danube and the levee, Beljarica is a spacious flood retention basin of Belgrade, 2.1 km at its widest point and some 9 km2 of seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, with stands of oak and ash, yet largely under industrial black poplar plantations, river arms and ponds. 60 mammal (Wild Boar, Roe Deer, Wildcat, Golden Jackal, Eurasian Otter, Eurasian Beaver) and 185 bird species (155 of them strictly protected) were recorded here. Among them are breeding Black Storks and no less than 3 pairs of White-tailed Eagles.
SPRING: Waterbirds recorded in Beljarica include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck, Black-crowned Night Heron and the Squacco Heron. Marsh Harrier is present year-round. Common Kingfisher, Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. In spring, look out for the Alpine Swift (breeding in the city). Also, breeding Red-backed Shrike, Penduline Tit, Icterine Warbler, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler and Barred Warbler certainly deserve a mention. Black Woodpecker is characteristic of the area, as well as the Eurasian Hobby.
In WINTER months, there would be numerous Great Egrets, ducks and cormorants, Hen Harrier and Marsh Harriers, an extrovert Eurasian Sparrowhawk, possibly a more introvert Northern Goshawk too, half a dozen to a dozen White-tailed Eagles. Also, a rare Greater Spotted Eagle was spotted here in December (only about a dozen of them overwinter in Serbia). Other notable species are Great Grey Shrike, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Water Pipit and Meadow Pipits, flocks of Bramblings, Hawfinches and Yellowhammers…
PROTECTION STATUS: Also, Beljarica is a part of the international ecological corridor along the Danube River, the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA) and, from August 2022, part of the new, backwaters nature reserve "Foreland of the Left Bank of the Danube near Belgrade", also known as the Belgrade Amazonia.
THREATS: Despite the fact that Beljarica is protected within the Danube Foreland Reserve, in April 2023 the Minister of Construction, Goran Vesić, announced the construction of the new Port of Belgrade inside Beljarica!
The floodplains of Beljarica, north of the Pupin’s Bridge, are the home of the very best birding in Belgrade. Located between the River Danube and the levee, Beljarica is a spacious flood retention basin of Belgrade, 2.1 km at its widest point and some 9 km2 of seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, with stands of oak and ash, yet largely under industrial black poplar plantations, river arms and ponds. 60 mammal (Wild Boar, Roe Deer, Wildcat, Golden Jackal, Eurasian Otter, Eurasian Beaver) and 185 bird species (155 of them strictly protected) were recorded here. Among them are breeding Black Storks and no less than 3 pairs of White-tailed Eagles.
SPRING: Waterbirds recorded in Beljarica include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck, Black-crowned Night Heron and the Squacco Heron. Marsh Harrier is present year-round. Common Kingfisher, Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. In spring, look out for the Alpine Swift (breeding in the city). Also, breeding Red-backed Shrike, Penduline Tit, Icterine Warbler, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler and Barred Warbler certainly deserve a mention. Black Woodpecker is characteristic of the area, as well as the Eurasian Hobby.
In WINTER months, there would be numerous Great Egrets, ducks and cormorants, Hen Harrier and Marsh Harriers, an extrovert Eurasian Sparrowhawk, possibly a more introvert Northern Goshawk too, half a dozen to a dozen White-tailed Eagles. Also, a rare Greater Spotted Eagle was spotted here in December (only about a dozen of them overwinter in Serbia). Other notable species are Great Grey Shrike, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Water Pipit and Meadow Pipits, flocks of Bramblings, Hawfinches and Yellowhammers…
PROTECTION STATUS: Also, Beljarica is a part of the international ecological corridor along the Danube River, the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA) and, from August 2022, part of the new, backwaters nature reserve "Foreland of the Left Bank of the Danube near Belgrade", also known as the Belgrade Amazonia.
THREATS: Despite the fact that Beljarica is protected within the Danube Foreland Reserve, in April 2023 the Minister of Construction, Goran Vesić, announced the construction of the new Port of Belgrade inside Beljarica!
