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Description
While the sugar plant between Kovin and the Danube, about 50 km east of Belgrade, is closed, the triangular ponds are nowadays filled up by the pet food factory effluents, and can be quite smelly. Yet, being next to the Danube floodzone, the area is rich in wildlife and has more natural feel about it.
Local waders include Curlew Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Black-winged Stilt, Avocet, Eurasian Oystercatcher (rare so deep in the continent), Grey Plover, Northern Lapwing, Common Ringed Plover, Ruddy Turnstone (rare so deep in the continent), Ruff, Dunlin, Little Stint, Common Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Wood Sandpiper, Common Redshank. Among the breeding Black-headed Gull, there are few pairs of Mediterranean Gull. Due to the closeness of the river Danube, terns on migration are diverse: Little Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Caspian Tern, Black Tern, White-winged Tern and, in the breeding season, Whiskered Tern.
Other species include Cattle Egret and Squacco Heron, European Honey-buzzard, Syrian Woodpecker, Eurasian Green Woodpecker, Black Woodpecker, Red-backed Shrike, Lesser Grey Shrike (uncommon), Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Marsh Warbler and Great Reed Warbler.
Photo (2) by Aleksandar Urosevic
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Access
While an asphalt road passes next to the pond, the turn-off is somewhat unusual and I marked it as a route on the map. If you reach the ponds by car, park at the beginning of the route (driving along the levee is prohibited and the barrier is often closed and locked). For driving directions, zoom in on the map and click on the "P" (parking) sign.