{"id":999,"date":"2025-01-30T23:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/?p=999"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:06:14","slug":"international-waterbird-census-iwc-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/international-waterbird-census-iwc-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"International Waterbird Census (IWC) 2025"},"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-974\"><\/span><span id=\"more-871\"><\/span><span id=\"more-751\"><\/span><span id=\"more-705\"><\/span><span id=\"more-623\"><\/span>In 2025 the period of observations was between 10<sup>th<\/sup> and 30<sup>th<\/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_1000\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/topolyai.to_.4.Photo_.Sihelnik.J..jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1000\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1000\" title=\"Zobnatica lake (Photo: Sihelnik J\u00f3zsef)\" src=\"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/topolyai.to_.4.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\/2025\/02\/topolyai.to_.4.Photo_.Sihelnik.J.-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/topolyai.to_.4.Photo_.Sihelnik.J.-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/topolyai.to_.4.Photo_.Sihelnik.J..jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1000\" 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 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0till 27<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0January. The whole area of the Ba\u010dkotopolsko lake was observed, as well as the Krivaja creek completely to \u0110ur\u0111in. Also, the Krivaja creek was observed from Ba\u010dka Topola to Baj\u0161a and on to Lov\u0107enac (which belongs to Municipality of Mali I\u0111o\u0161) and the whole area of the artificial accumulation lake \u201cKrivaja\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In our observation area the most important waterbird species were the following: <strong>Mallard<\/strong> (<i>Anas platyrhynchos<\/i>) 1203,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Eurasian Teal<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Anas crecca<\/i>) 135,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Common<\/span><\/strong> <strong>Reed Bunting<\/strong> (<i>Emberiza schoeniclus<\/i>) 53,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Common Crane<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Grus grus<\/i>) 42,\u00a0<strong>Eurasian<span class=\"fontstyle0\"> Coot<\/span><\/strong> (<em>Fulica atra<\/em>) 40,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Common<\/span><\/strong> <strong>Moorhen<\/strong> (<em>Gallinula chloropus<\/em>) 38,\u00a0<strong>Mute Swan<\/strong> (<i>Cygnus olor<\/i>) 23,\u00a0<strong>Grey Heron<\/strong> (<i>Ardea cinerea<\/i>) 11, <strong>Eurasian<\/strong> <strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Wigeon<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Anas penelope<\/i>) 10,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Bearded Reedling<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Panurus biarmicus<\/i>) 6,\u00a0<strong>Hen Harrier<\/strong> (<i>Circus cyaneus<\/i>) 5,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Common<\/span><\/strong> <strong>Shelduck<\/strong> (<i>Tadorna tadorna<\/i>) 5, <b>Little Grebe<\/b> (<i>Tachybaptus ruficollis<\/i>) 4, <strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Greylag Goose<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Anser anser<\/i>) 2, <strong>Great Egret<\/strong> (<em>Ardea alba<\/em>) 2,<strong> <span class=\"fontstyle0\">White Wagtail<\/span><\/strong> (<em>Motacilla alba<\/em>) 2, <strong>Eurasian<\/strong> <strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Penduline Tit<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Remiz pendulinus<\/i>) 2,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Grey Wagtail<\/span><\/strong> (<i>Motacilla cinerea<\/i>) 1 and <strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Eurasian Woodcock<\/span><\/strong> (<em>Scolopax rusticola<\/em>) 1. Totally 1585 birds belonging to 19 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-2025\/\" 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":780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcus.org.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}