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On or around lake Plav, look for grey heron, great crested grebe, black-necked grebe, little grebe, great bittern and corncrake. The lake is home to the largest breeding population of corncrake in Montenegro.

Journey to Valbona have prepared a very useful checklist of birds in the Valbona Valley, based on information from the Albanian Ornithologist Dr Taulant Bino, which can be downloaded from www.journeytovalbona.com (select ‘About’, then ‘Birds’).

Butterflies

The Prokletije mountains are incredibly rich in butterflies, with 130 species having been recorded in Prokletije National Park in Montenegro alone, and 129 species recorded the area of Prokletije in Kosovo (to put these figures in context, there are just 67 species of butterfly in the UK!). Butterfly species recorded along the Peaks of the Balkans Trail include common swallowtail, scarce swallowtail, twin-spot fritillary, lesser-spotted fritillary, small tortoiseshell, mountain apollo and several species of blue including northern blue, turquoise blue and mazarine blue.