As you know, I started to bird from a canoe, exploring the Danube backwaters in Belgrade, Serbia. Those foreland backwaters stretch all along the...

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...

Turning off the asphalt, I enter the Deliblato Sands steppe, between the Danube and the Carpathian Mountains in the northeast of Serbia, where the...

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...

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

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

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

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