Tag: city birds

Trips

The Biggest Urban Pygmy Cormorant Roost is Finally Protected!!

January 12, 2023 by Dragan 2 Comments

It all started during the icy February of 1996. The night temperatures in Belgrade, Serbia, were already below minus 10 Celsius / 14 degrees...

Trips

December birding in Belgrade

November 18, 2021 by Dragan No Comments

In Belgrade, Serbia, winter months offer surprisingly good birding possibilities. Winter is a season of extremes – opt for the very top and the...

Trips

The 20 best birds of Belgrade and where to find them

March 14, 2019 by Dragan 3 Comments

Some five years ago I was involved in a project of ecotourism evaluation of the river Danube in Serbia, which included the city of...

Trips

The 701 Long-eared Owl of Kikinda

November 22, 2018 by Dragan No Comments

Have you heard of a small town in Serbia graced by the presence of its 700 communally roosting Long-eared Owls? You may have read...

Birding

Urban birds, urban birding… is there a future?

June 7, 2018 by Dragan No Comments

White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings, I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough...

Trips

City Guide: Finding Birds in Belgrade

April 27, 2017 by Dragan 1 Comment

Is Belgrade the New Berlin is a question recently raised in Vogue by Marry Holland. Her article starts with a bold claim that “no city...

Birding

A “Thank You” is All You Need

June 23, 2016 by Dragan 2 Comments

Birders are utterly suspicious characters. By Greek law enforcement officers, I had already been taken for a spy. But, seen from the opposite angle,...

Conservation

How to create an IBA and get a permanent headache in five easy steps

May 26, 2016 by Dragan 5 Comments

First: Dream about it As a teenager in Yugoslavia, I used to buy National Geographic in secondhand bookshops. Fascinated with New York’s Jamaica Bay,...

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