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Beli Orao (Serbo-Croatian for 'White Eagle') was a royal yacht built in 1938–39 or the Yugoslav Royal Navy, which intended her to serve as a patrol boat, escort, or guard ship in war time. Upon completion, she was pre ssed into service as the yacht – used by senior admirals for transport and to review fleet exercises . She was captured in April 1941 by t he Italians during the World Wa r II Axis invasion of Yugoslavia. he Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy ) replaced her guns and used her as a gunboat for harbour protection a nd coastal escort duties, briefly as Alba then Zagabria. She was the n used to train anti-submarine war fare specialists from the naval ba se at La Spezia.
   After the Italia n armistice with the Allies in Se ptember 1943, Zagabria escaped ca pture by the Germans and was retu rned to the Yugoslav Royal Navy-i n-exile in December that year. Re fitted, and under her original na me of Beli Orao, she became a ten der for a flotilla of motor gunbo ats that had been loaned to the Yugoslav Royal Navy-in-exile b y the British Royal Navy.
   When Beli Orao was completed, Yugoslavia had not yet been drawn into the war, but she was immediately pressed into service to replace the admiralty yacht Vila, which was used by senior admirals for transport and to review fleet exercises. This changed with the April 1941 German-led Axis invasion of the country.[3] At the time of the invasion, Beli Orao was located at the main navy fleet base at the Bay of Kotor.[6]

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The Cape Starling, red-shouldered glossy-starling or Cape glossy starling (Lamprotornis nitens) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Southern Africa, where it lives nraad Jacob Temminck in 1820.[10] In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description f the Cape starling in his Ornithologie sed on a specimen collected in Angola. He used the French name Le merle verd d'Angola and the Latin Merula Viridis olensis.[6]
   The Cape starling is a gregarious bird and forms large flocks in the non-breeding season. It usually feeds on the ground often foraging alongside other species of starlings such as the pied starling, the common starling, the greater blue-eared starling, the lesser blue-eared starling, the wattled starling and Burchell's starling.[1]It is habituated to humans and its diet includes fruit, insects and nectar. It sometimes feeds on ectoparasites that it picks off the backs of animals and it sometimes visits bird tables for scraps.[14]Breeding mainly takes place between October and February but may continue into April in Namibia.

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