Visit to our next national park in Greece started with an excellent fish dinner in the Porto Lagos harbour, overlooking the pine forest with...

Lake Kerkini National Park in the north of Greece is the very best birding area in the Balkan Peninsula and definitely among the top...

I am in a state of shock: late May, warm weather and fog! In the morning in the lowlands, fog out of season! However,...

Before starting Birdingplaces.eu, Chris van der Heijden worked for BirdLife in The Netherlands. During his birding travels through Europe, he came up with the...

I woke up this morning and checked social media before the coffee, only to notice a post: “MEGA – a Cinereous Vulture [a.k.a. Eurasian...

Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia, offers several great birding spots and here are some recommendations for areas to go birding in and around...

Never trust a field guide publisher’s claim of a definitive text, because each new edition is certain to bring more a definitive text than...

I see myself as an old school birder, which means that I do remember the times when good bird photos were rare and far...