HORROR: Train hit endangered Black Eagle, the rarest species in Serbia

Tim for rescuing protected animals of the Provincial Institute for Nature Protection of Vojvodina took care of the Black Eagle, who is one of the rarest species of eagles in Europe, after it was hit by a train near Bogojevo, an ornithologist of Institute warns that it is necessary to devise a way to deter birds from nesting near the railway infrastructure.

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Provincial Institute for Nature Protection of Vojvodina on Wednesday was informed that big bird is injured at the train station in Bogojevo, then it turned out that it was a black eagle.

According to the statements of employees in the railway railways, the bird was found on the railway line next to the aforementioned railway stations, and according to injuries it was clear that it has crashed after colliding with the train, which was later also confirmed, according to the Provincial Institute for Nature Protection.

Bird was immobilized and transferred to the Shelter for animals which works withing the Zoo in Palic. Unfortunately, as they say in the Provincial Institute for Nature Protection, the bones of her right wing were so broken that the only option for rescuing the animal was amputation of that wing, which was done. The bird is in the aforementioned shelter, where it is recovering. After treatment will be kept at the zoo since it is not capable of flying anymore.

Foto: Saša Preradović

Marko Tucakov, the ornithologist at the Provincial Institute for Nature Protection, stated that the black eagle is the rarest species of eagle that lives in Europe, where there is more than half of its habitat.

- In Europe, it only nests in northeast, the Baltic countries, Poland and Belarus, European Russia and Ukraine. It regularly moves, European populations spend the winters in southern Europe, the Middle East and part of central Africa. It spends winters in Serbia regularly but from autumn to spring we failed to record more than 7 black eagle birds, which makes it our rarest eagles - says Tucakov.

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He adds that the place where this bird almost died is very close to the Danube and the Special Nature Reserve "Upper Danube", where it most likely spent the previous day, but ornithologists do not exclude the possibility that it was standing right next to the railroad, on some of the wooden pillars of the railway .

- Although collisions with trains in some countries very important cause of mortality of large birds, with us this was not the case. For this reason, security guards of nature remains the task to devise a way in which the birds can be distracted from the need to live on and near the railway infrastructure. Because of its size and inertia, they find it very difficult to avoid a collision with the train - says Tucakov.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Tanjug)