Interesting bird sightings from our regular waterbirds monitoring on the Drava river – 24th 10-day period:
Lake Ormož:
- Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) – 4 ind.
- Great Egret (Ardea alba) – 51 ind.
- Garganey (Anas querquedula) – 210 ind.
- Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana) – 1 ind.
- Avoset (Recurvirostra avosetta) – 2 ind.
- Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) – 17 ind.
- Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) – 517 ind.
- Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) – 45 ind.
Lake Ptuj:
- Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) – 15 ind.
- Garganey (Anas querquedula) – 198 ind.
- Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca) – 12 ind.
- Temminck’s Stint (Calidris temminckii) – 2 ind.
- Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata) – 3 ind.
- Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) – 1 ind.
- Mediterranean Gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) – 1 ind.
- European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) – 1 ind.
- Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida) – 2 ind.
- White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus) – 2 ind.
