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On Saturday, 20 September 2014, 14 DOPPS’ volunteers, among them many young –elementary school and university students, cut down this year’s vegetation on the artificial island on the Lake Ptuj, that was constructed in 2004 and created conditions for nesting of black-headed gulls and common terns in the next year. The action of removing vegetation was done within the project LIVEDRAVA. More



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Interesting bird sightings from our regular water birds monitoring on the Drava river – 27th decade: More


In the scope of project LIVEDRAVA we started to build basic infrastructure for the visitors in the establishing Ormož Basins Nature Reserve. We bought 4 ship containers, that we will reuse as observation points and put into the natural reserve. We will arrange the entrance to the natural reserve and provide parking space for visitors. More



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On Wednesday, 17th September 2014 we did a review of the area for the preparation of spot for bird ringing in the Ormož Basins Nature Reserve in establishment. Mr. Franc Bračko gave us advice on where and how to prepare the area. More



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The presence of hamster (Cricetus cricetus) in Slovenia was confirmed in 1980 for the first time, when two specimens were found close to village Obrež. After that no data about his presence was available. 34 years later we confirmed the presence of hamster (Cricetus cricetus) in Središče ob Dravi. The location is on the far edge of its areal and is the only known in Slovenia. More



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