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Trips

Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries

April 26, 2018 by Dragan 1 Comment

Morning at the slopes of Mt. Povlen, a quick stop filled with a song that sounds familiar, but I haven’t heard it since last...

Birding

Go for the jugular!

March 29, 2018 by Dragan No Comments

Who else, but a birder, would drive with windows down in subzero temperatures? Just ahead of the final cold spell this winter (-10 C...

Birding

Computer-modelled Range Maps

March 15, 2018 by Dragan No Comments

During the final stages of the Pan-European bird-atlassing work last year, computer models of Serbian ranges for some 150 bird species were produced for...

Conservation

The Great Bustard Search is On (2)

March 1, 2018 by Dragan 6 Comments

I woke up at 5 am, a good two hours before the sun (and I really hate to be up before the sun). And...

Conservation

The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

February 15, 2018 by Dragan 2 Comments

I am preparing for the new census of one of the rarest birds of Serbia, the globally threatened Great Bustard, taking place two days...

Birding

I screamed: Ural Owl!

February 1, 2018 by Dragan 6 Comments

I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”, all the time pointing with my right hand while holding the steering wheel with my left, and the hardest thing, keeping...

Trips

The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

January 18, 2018 by Dragan 4 Comments

With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my...

Birds

Talking of woodpeckers…

December 21, 2017 by Dragan 2 Comments

As tree crowns grow thinner, Autumn becomes the true woodpecker season. September in the Balkans started with the usual unruly bunch of Lesser Spotted,...

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