The entire world, it seemed, was buried under two feet of snow. I was checking weather forecasts for days looking for a window of...
Out of just under 200 bird species I observed this year in SE Europe, there are 6 threatened species. Some of them were always...
How many species have I observed this year? The malicious eBird answers: only 186! Yuck! Yes, I know, I’ll reach 190, but 200? No...
Can you remember any birding movie before Schrodinger’s Cat? Probably not. For me, the only “birding” movie that I knew of were the Dogs...
Late last month, while searching for bears, woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. Every...
I dipped a bird recently – possibly a lifer. While crossing Gramos Mountain in northern Greece, a Dendrocopos woodpecker flew over the road and...
In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. It has become extinct,...
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