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Tara Mountain National Park

Western Serbia  >  Serbia

Tara Mountain slopes are clad in dense forests with numerous high-altitude clearings and meadows, steep cliffs, deep ravines and many limestone caves.

Ajouté* par Dragan Simic
Dernière actualisation 3 octobre 2024

Description

In Tara Mountain National Park 80% of the area is covered by forest, 85% of it consisting of Norway Spruce, Silver Fir and the European Beech. Altitude ranges from medium 1000 m up to the 1591 m high Kozji Rid peak.

There are 140 bird species recorded within the national park, 96 of them breeding in recent years. Among the reasonably frequent in the right habitat (= possible and, with some focused effort, realistic) to even common species are Gélinotte des bois (beech and mixed forests), Râle des genêts (larger meadows), Chouette de l'Oural (with over 70 territories, the commonest owl in the park’s mixed forests), Pic cendré (mixed forests), Pic vert (forest edges) and Pic noir (all forests), Cassenoix moucheté (conifer and mixed forests), Mésange noire, Mésange huppée, Mésange boréale, Mésange lugubre, Roitelet huppé, Roitelet triple-bandeau, Grive draine, Bouvreuil pivoine, Serin cini and Bec-croisé des sapins. Also, breeding Merle à plastron and Bécasse des bois. The rarest species are Gobemouche nain, Pic à dos blanc , Chevêchette d'Europe and Chouette de Tengmalm.

Some of the mammalian highlights of the national park are brown bear (relatively numerous, but rarely seen), chamois (frequent), roe deer (common), wildcat, European pine marten, and Eurasian otter.

Photos by Mileta Cekovic and Dragan Simic.

Détails

Accès

Tara National Park lies three and a half hours southwest / 205 km away from the capital of Serbia, Belgrade (260 km by the new highway, or 3 and a half driving hours in both cases) . Access to Tara is possible from three directions: via Bajina Bašta - Kaluđerske bare 16 km, Kremna - Kaluđerske bare 9 km, Bajina Bašta - Mitrovac 27 km.

There are 290 km of marked dirt roads and hiking trails in the park, as well as 75 km of mountain biking routes (most of these tracks are also passable by ordinary cars). Excellent and constantly updated 1:50,000 hiking maps of the park are obtainable at the visitor’s centre in Mitrovac (find the NP authorities at www.nptara.rs, see the link below). The one of many possible routes, circular route shown on the map is about 20 km long.

For driving directions, zoom in on the map and click on the "P" (parking) sign.

Terrain et Habitat

Forêt , Montagnes , Canyon/falaise , Lac , Prairie

Conditions

Montagneux , Rocailleux

Boucle

Oui

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Saison idéale pour observer

Printemps , Eté

Meilleure période pour une visite

Printemps

Itinéraire

Route pavée , Route non pavée

Niveau de difficulté de l'itinéraire

Intense

Accessible via

A pied , Vélo , Voiture

Observatoire/hutte d'observation

Non

Informations supplémentaires

To be properly explored, Tara National Park requires at least four days or, better, a week.

Liens

Voir les sites d'observation voisins publiés sur Birdingplaces

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