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vicinity of Jagodina. The first is about 15 km downstream 
in the Velika Morava valley, near Bagrdan (Radaković, 
2009), also at the gravel pond where one pair nested in 
2019 (pers. obs.).
Boban Stanković, Department of Environmental Protection, Kralja 
Petra I, No. 6, 35000 Jagodina, Serbia,  
e-mail: boban.stankovic035@gmail.com
Navadna čigra Sterna hirundo
Common tern – on small Mišnjak island near 
the village Mandre on the island of Pag (Croatia), 
10–15 pairs of Common Terns observed nesting in 
2011 and up to 20 in 2012.
Otok Mišnjak (centroid: 44,499622o, 14,896130o), okoli 
0,6 ha zelo skopo poraščene kopnine pri naselju Mandre 
na otoku Pagu (Hrvaška), je znano gnezdišče navadne 
čigre. Otok sem obiskal dvakrat. 30.  5.  2011 sem med 
kamenjem naštel 10 gnezd, na podlagi števila ptic, ki so 
me obletavale, sem ocenil, da jih je bilo takrat na otoku 
morda celo 15, a vseh nisem našel. V dveh gnezdih so 
bili sveže izvaljeni mladiči. Ob obisku 22. 5. 2012 sem 
našel 5 gnezd, na podlagi ptic, ki so me obletavale, pa 
sem ocenil, da je tisto leto na otoku verjetno gnezdilo do 
20 parov čiger. Mladiči se še niso izvalili. Nekoliko stran 
od kolonije navadnih čiger je bil tudi en par male čigre 
Sternula albifrons, vendar gnezdenja te vrste nedvoumno 
nisem mogel potrditi.
Davorin Tome, Trnovska 8, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija,  
e-mail: davorin.tome@gmail.com
Navadna čigra Sterna hirundo
Common tern – in 2017, at least 18 breeding 
Common Tern pairs started to nest in the Ulcinj 
Salina. Due to constant changes in the water level, 
not a single egg hatched.
Med 22.5. in 1.6. 2017 sem na Ulcinjskih solinah preštel 
54 navadnih čiger in našel 18 gnezd z valečimi pticami, 
večinoma na solinskem polju 31 in na Jezeru 1. V dneh med 
19. 6. in 22. 6. je bilo solinsko polje 31 povsem brez vode, 
gnezda čiger so propadla. Na Jezeru 1 je bilo še 7 gnezd. 
Kasneje so s povišanjem vodostaja zaradi črpanja morske 
vode, propadla tudi ta gnezda. Od skupaj najmanj 18 
gnezd v letu 2017 torej ni bilo uspešno nobeno. Po propadu 
gnezd so čigre iz območja izginile, tako da nadomestnih ni 
bilo. Starejša poročila za to območje govorijo o 30 do 80 
gnezdečih parih navadne čigre v obdobju 2003 do 2006 
(Štumberger in sod. 2008) in 5 do 10 parih v letu 2015 
(Schwarz in Sackl 2017), nič pa ni objavljenega o tem, 
koliko gnezd je bilo uspešnih.
Davorin Tome, Trnovska 8, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija, e-mail: davorin.
tome@gmail.com
DRUGE ČIGRE / OTHER TERNS
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
Belolična čigra  – največje zabeleženo število na 
eni lokaciji v Sloveniji: 74 in 86 osebkov v parih 
dne 17. in 18. 5. 2009 na Ptujskem jezeru. Zaradi 
majhne oddaljenosti najbližjih gnezdišč v sosednjih 
državah in gnezditvenih navad vrste takšna 
opazovanja na panonskem delu Drave niso povsem 
nepričakovana.
Whiskered Tern occurs on regular basis at large reservoirs 
in the Pannonian part of the Drava River in Slovenia 
(NE Slovenia). In a decade of systematic waterbird 
counts (2009–2018) the species was registered in most 
10-day periods between mid-April and early July, while 
observations are somewhat less frequent during the 
summer months (N = 102 records). Most records include 
small groups, with few observations of more than 20 
individuals at one site in a single count (own unpubl. 
data). Thus, the following observations deserve special 
mentioning: at Lake Ptuj, 74 and 86 individuals were 
counted on 17 and 18 May 2009, respectively. Birds were 
obviously paired and very active, constantly flying around 
in twos low above the water surface of the widest section 
of the reservoir. In days prior and after this observation, 
no Whiskered Terns or only small numbers were present 
at the site. This is by far the highest number of individuals 
registered during a single count on the Drava River, 
with no similar records existing elsewhere in Slovenia 
as well as Austrian Styria (e.g. Bordjan & Božič 2009, 
Bordjan 2012, Albegger et al. 2015). Even at well-
watched and internationally important Lake Neusiedl, 
the largest flock of migrating Whiskered Terns registered 
in the years 1992–2009 was substantially smaller (22 ind.) 
(Dvorak et al. 2010). However, occasional occurrence 
of significant numbers along the lower Drava in Slovenia 
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