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...

There should be thousands of birds at this time of the year, Dimitris Michalakis from the Karla Lake management authority told me. In early...

Beljarica backwaters cover the 900 ha of wilderness on the eastern bank of the Danube, between the river and the embankment, by the suburb...

Cover photo: Black-headed Bunting by Mark S. Jobling / Wikimedia Commons This year, the first heat of the season came late, only with early...

Are you stubborn enough to go out on Sunday morning even if it’s raining? Some of us are. In May, morning bird lists here...

Have you read my blogs on birding Greece? Presuming that you live somewhere in Europe and plan a car trip to Greece, let me...

Photo: This area holds 3 to 4 breeding pairs of White-tailed Eagles, which represents the biggest density per square mile anywhere in the country....