OTHMAR REISER – ORNITHOLOGICAL RECORDS FROM KARST POLJES OF

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Livno 30.09-2-10.2013

DR. OTHMAR REISER 1888 - 1936

Collection of birds from the Balkan Peninsula - 9528 skins and a collection of 5000 eggs

REISER AND KARST POLJES 1888.-1910. Itinerer 1888. Livno,Mostarsko blato, Čapljina-Dračevo, Ljubinje, Zavala-Trebinje, Gacko 1889 Hutovo blato 1891. Mostarsko blato, Bos. Petrovac, Rama, Rama 1892. Hutovo blato, Mostarsko blato, Mokromblato, Kupres, Plasa, Duvanjsko polje 1893. Ljubuški, Hutovo blato, Dabarsko polje, Kupres, Livno, Roško polje, , Trebinje, Mostarsko blato 1895. Hutovo blato 1896. Hutovo blato, Kupres, Ždralovac (Livanjsko polje) 1900. Hutovo blato, Zavala, Blidinje jezero 1901. Grahovo, Kupres 1902. Hutovo blato 1903. Dabarsko polje 1904. Livanjsko polje (Ždralovac), Hutovo blato 1905. Hutovo blato 1906. Hutovo blato, Gacko 1907. Hutovo blato, Trebinje, Gacko 1908. Hutovo blato, Rama, , Kupres

VULTURES

“Besides Bosnia and Herzegovina, only Greece and Spain can be proud by the fact that within their animals (fauna) they have all the species of vultures which exist in Europe” (Reiser, 1889)

Photo: Saša Marinković

Gyps fulvus-Zavala Aegypius monachus-Mostarsko blato Gypaetus barbatus-Kupres, Popovo polje Neophron percnopterus-Blidinje

SPOONBIL (Platalea leucorodia)

Photo: Borut Stumberger

COMMON CRANE (Grus grus)

Photo: Mirko Šarac

Last breeding site in B&H – Ždralovac in Livanjsko polje

EUROPEAN ROLLER (Coracias garrulus)

Photo: Mirko Šarac

Extinct breeding species, but it was again recorded in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2010, after more than a hundred years

...AND SOME OTHER IMPORTANT DATA

of excint or rare species Otis tarda (Glamoč, Livno, Posuško polje)

Cercotrichas galactotes (Sutorina in Montenegro-Popovovo polje in B&H)

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