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Reviews

“Birds of Cyprus” field guide review

February 27, 2020 by Dragan No Comments

For the last two decades, Europe and the greater Mediterranean have been covered by one of the best field guides anywhere: “Collins Bird Guide”...

Trips

Going Medieval: Waterfowling the Two Towers of Serbia

February 13, 2020 by Dragan 4 Comments

Cover photo: Ram Fortress by Ilija Jacanovic In the chill morning of late January, I am driving east of Belgrade towards the Two Towers...

Reviews

Wild Sri Lanka

January 30, 2020 by Dragan No Comments

As Bill Oddie noticed in his foreword to ‘Wild Sri Lanka’ (2nd edition) by Gehan De Silva Wijeyeratne, this island paradise is probably the...

Birds

How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

January 16, 2020 by Dragan No Comments

The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely...

Reviews

Birds of Japan by Otani Chikara

January 2, 2020 by Dragan No Comments

It’s the festive season and I am holding the new Lynx Edicions’s Birds of Japan, thinking what a perfect gift to any international birder...

Conservation

The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

December 19, 2019 by Dragan 5 Comments

In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention:...

Trips

12 countries with the greatest bird species density

December 5, 2019 by Dragan 6 Comments

The Species per Square Mile Approach While Colombia may have almost 2000 bird species, it is a huge country with, still, complicated long-distance travel...