{"id":974,"date":"2024-01-22T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/?p=974"},"modified":"2025-02-10T01:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T00:50:22","slug":"international-waterbird-census-iwc-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/international-waterbird-census-iwc-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"International Waterbird Census (IWC) 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2011, The International Waterbird Census (IWC) in Serbia is coordinated by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pticesrbije.rs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bird Study and Protection Society of Serbia<\/a><\/em>. The IWC is coordinated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wetlands.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wetlands International<\/em><\/a> and it is organized every year in most countries of the world. <!--more--><span id=\"more-871\"><\/span><span id=\"more-751\"><\/span><span id=\"more-705\"><\/span><span id=\"more-623\"><\/span>In 2024 the period of observations was between 9<sup>th<\/sup> and 31<sup>st<\/sup> of January and the results of waterbird counting had to be provided the IWC until 10<sup>th<\/sup> of February.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_707\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/zobnatica.lake_.2.Photo_.Sihelnik.J..jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-707\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-707\" title=\"Zobnatica lake (Photo: Sihelnik J\u00f3zsef)\" src=\"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/zobnatica.lake_.2.Photo_.Sihelnik.J.-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Zobnatica lake (Photo: Sihelnik J\u00f3zsef)\" width=\"265\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/zobnatica.lake_.2.Photo_.Sihelnik.J.-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/zobnatica.lake_.2.Photo_.Sihelnik.J.-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/zobnatica.lake_.2.Photo_.Sihelnik.J..jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zobnatica lake (Photo: Sihelnik J\u00f3zsef)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ornithologists from Ornithological work group of Arcus Ecological Association participate in national survey since 2012. This year, the activities took part from 12<sup>nd<\/sup> till 13<sup>rd<\/sup> January. The whole area of the Zobnatica lake was observed, as well as the Krivaja creek completely to \u0110ur\u0111in. Later the Krivaja creek was observed from area near Ba\u010dka Topola to Baj\u0161a.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In our observation area the most important waterbird species were the following: <strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Common Crane<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Grus grus<\/i>) 831,\u00a0<strong>Mallard<\/strong> (<i>Anas platyrhynchos<\/i>) 743,\u00a0<strong>Eurasian<span class=\"fontstyle0\"> Coot<\/span><\/strong> (<em>Fulica atra<\/em>) 159,\u00a0<strong>Mute Swan<\/strong> (<i>Cygnus olor<\/i>) 55,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Common<\/span><\/strong> <strong>Moorhen<\/strong> (<em>Gallinula chloropus<\/em>) 51,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Eurasian Teal<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Anas crecca<\/i>) 40,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Common<\/span><\/strong> <strong>Reed Bunting<\/strong> (<i>Emberiza schoeniclus<\/i>) 33,\u00a0<strong>Goosander<\/strong> (<i>Mergus merganser<\/i>) 9,\u00a0<strong>Eurasian<\/strong> <strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Penduline Tit<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Remiz pendulinus<\/i>) 8,\u00a0<span class=\"aCOpRe\"><strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Great Cormorant<\/span><\/strong><\/span> (<i>Phalacrocorax carbo<\/i>) 7,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Bearded Reedling<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Panurus biarmicus<\/i>) 5,\u00a0<strong>Eurasian<\/strong> <strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Wigeon<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Anas penelope<\/i>) 3,\u00a0<span class=\"aCOpRe\"><strong>White-Tailed Eagle<\/strong> (<em>Haliaeetus albicilla<\/em>)<\/span> 2,\u00a0<strong>Marsh Harrier<\/strong> (<em>Circus aeruginosus<\/em>) 1,\u00a0<strong>Great Egret<\/strong> (<em>Casmerodius albus<\/em>) 1 and\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Green Sandpiper<\/span><\/strong> (<em><span class=\"aCOpRe\">Tringa ochropus<\/span><\/em>) 1. Totally 1949 birds belonging to 16 species were observed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/international-waterbird-census-iwc-2024\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\" show-faces='false' width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2011, The International Waterbird Census (IWC) in Serbia is coordinated by Bird Study and Protection Society of Serbia. The IWC is coordinated by Wetlands International and it is organized every year in most countries of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}