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A Balkan Top Ten

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The Balkans, by the way, is a loose term for Europe’s south-eastern peninsula, covering the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece.) It is these Balkan specials that are the target species… Source

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

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Yet, Bosnia and Herzegovina was the very heartland of former Yugoslavia, with Sarajevo in its geographical centre. My friend is an ornithologist at the National Museum, Bosnia’s biggest and best-endowed museum of ancient and, especially, natural history. Overhearing that, the waiter came and introduced himself “I am from Kosovo”.

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Paws For The Balkans

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Catastrophic floods following three days of extremely heavy rain this month have left large portions of Bosnia and Serbia submerged and millions of people and animals in desperate need of help. Please join BlogPaws, Pet 360 and World Vets in the global disaster response effort to the Bosnia and Serbia flooding. Image: Reuters.

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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

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McMullan had some sort of spiritual awakening in Bosnia when he saw a woman weeping outside her destroyed home. The coon wasn’t scared, McMullan explains, because it can hold its own with a fox in a fight. But the coon wanted the fox to know, nevertheless, that the coon was aware of its presence.

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Emerging birding destinations: Serbia

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Along the Drina River, which marks the border between Serbia and Bosnia, lies the 6 km / 4 mi long and 500 m / 1600 ft deep Tresnjica River Gorge, on a small tributary of the Drina – and a Griffon Vulture Sanctuary. Only since an English birder Geoff Laight moved to a nearby village has the dam received more attention.

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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

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The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia).

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Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries

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Our destination lies further west, along the Drina River, which marks the border between Serbia and Bosnia. Povlen, a quick stop filled with a song that sounds familiar, but I haven’t heard it since last year. Checking it on my phone – yes, it is an Ortolan Bunting !

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