Experiments Protection Serbia 
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2018
“I would certainly recommend Serbia to visiting birders. My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. Serbia is a cheap and accessible destination, with some real surprises in store for the visiting birder and some excellent guides to show you around.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
The world record holder is the town of Kikinda, further north, with 700 birds in their town square which has recently become an officially protected owl habitat – a small, urban nature reserve. I observe them, but feel I still lack experience to tell with certainty the SEO from LEO in flight. Birding city birds Europe owls Serbia'
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2019
I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. The next specialty is the Red-footed Falcon in the Deliblato Sands Nature Reserve in the east of Serbia: “Two European Rollers await us on the wires, while one Eurasian Hoopoe flies by. Then 20 more joined them, so I entered 100 in my notebook.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2015
No, I took a paddle and discovered the Danube backwaters (cover photo: 1995), the very same area I am fighting to protect now, but the Government, it seems, has an interested investor… Seeing the most valuable habitats disappearing in front of our eyes, environmentalists are quite prone to depression, but that is another story.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2018
Have you heard of a small town in Serbia graced by the presence of its 700 communally roosting Long-eared Owls ? Rightfully, this town centre doubles as a nature reserve – an officially protected owl habitat. Actually, the numbers are even higher. The best decorated single tree had 145 owls in its crown.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2018
As you know, I started to bird from a canoe, exploring the Danube backwaters in Belgrade, Serbia. What I have always missed there and what I still miss is to experience presence of the European Beaver. The proposal to protect 1860 ha was sent to the City Assembly, which conveniently forgot about it in some dusty drawer.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2014
My best bird of the weekend was a Great Black-backed Gull , a rarity in a land-locked Serbia, with less than 10 observations so far. Before I acquired my own Swarovski binoculars, I had the chance to test both ELs and CLs for months at a time and so, from my own experience I knew what level of quality this brand guarantees.
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