As part of the action ‘European Counting of Waterfowl Birds 2014’, members of the Association for Research and Conservation of Biodiversity in Banja Luka are carrying out an action of counting the birds in aquatic habitats in the lower reaches of the River Bosna.
President of the Company Jovica Sjeničić said that the counting of birds is being done at several locations in the areas of Doboj, Modrič and Šamac, and on the River Sava and Pond Tišina in Šamac.
Sjeničić stressed that the ultimate goal of the action, which is organized at the B&H level by the Ornithological Society ‘Our Birds’ from Sarajevo, is the popularization of protection of nature.
The action is organized throughout Europe every year during the winter, when waterfowl birds arrived to their settling places.
The Bosna River, its tributaries, ponds and sand excavations on the area of Modrič are the permanent or winter habitat for numerous species of birds, waterfowls, and various types of herons, ducks, kingfishers and cormorant.
For the first time this year in the area of Modrič, there are a smaller number of great white heron, ducks, coots and cormorants, and at the beginning of December a large number of white swans settled.
(Source: klix.ba)
