The owl monument is seen in Kikinda, Serbia, November 14, 2018. Picture taken November 14, 2018. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
KIKINDA, Serbia (Reuters) - Thousands of keen bird-watchers flock to Serbia's northern town of Kikinda every winter to see one of the world's largest roosting populations of long-eared owls.
But the small town on Serbia's border with Romania is now trending on social media for a different reason: a protest over a statue aiming to brand it as the city of owls which many say resembles a phallus rather than an owl.
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