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Trips

Finding birds in Deliblato Sands, part 3/3: along the eastern edge of the reserve

April 9, 2020 by Dragan No Comments

Stevanove Ravnice (cover photo) and the flooded mouth of the Karas River, Labudovo okno Part of the Labudovo okno Ramsar Wetland and protected within...

Trips

Finding birds in Deliblato Sands Reserve, part 2/3: the Labudovo okno Ramsar Wetland

March 26, 2020 by Dragan No Comments

LABUDOVO OKNO Ramsar Site and an Important Bird Area represents a section of the Danube floodplain downriver from Belgrade, Serbia, and situated in the...

Birding

Post Apocalyptic Steampunk Birding

February 19, 2020 by Faraaz Abdool No Comments

Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes,...

Trips

Going Medieval: Waterfowling the Two Towers of Serbia

February 13, 2020 by Dragan 4 Comments

Cover photo: Ram Fortress by Ilija Jacanovic In the chill morning of late January, I am driving east of Belgrade towards the Two Towers...

Conservation

The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

December 19, 2019 by Dragan 5 Comments

In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention:...

Birding

How to bird by kayak

February 14, 2019 by Dragan No Comments

I started to bird from a kayak. Paddling around the Veliko Ratno Island Reserve in almost downtown Belgrade was such a liberating experience of...

Birds

The European Christmas Bird Count

January 17, 2019 by Dragan No Comments

I remember studying the map of countries participating in the international mid-winter waterbird census, where the USA wasn’t marked. How can it be, I...