10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2015
Two years ago, I was counting active nests of Rooks in the flat agricultural landscape north of Belgrade, Serbia. In the northern Backa region of Serbia, in the mid-1970s there were more than 37,000 active nests of Rooks, while in 2009 there were less than 8500, indicating a loss of more than 76% over a time span of 35 years ( source ).
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. eBird bar chart.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
The good side of this popularity is presence of restaurants and inns (from personal experience I can recommend a place for carnivores called Vodopad – By the waterfall). To get there, after you pass Despotovac drive through Dvoriste and Strmosten villages, following the signs for the Lisine Valley, an area popular with weekend crowds.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
I observe them, but feel I still lack experience to tell with certainty the SEO from LEO in flight. Back in November, one group of British birders visited Serbia and, as one of them later wrote in his blog, their local guide promised them the GGS – “That one is guaranteed“, the guide declared. ‘He Long-eared Owls are irresistibly cute.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2014
even before I took binoculars, I was always chasing, hmm… impressionable experiences. The intensity of experience is not the same, but, e.g. focusing on a single bird and trying to solve the puzzle… or finding the rarest owl of India , that was a mind-blowing one. Birding Europe Serbia wetlands' Town squares?
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2015
I have asked myself that same question many times over the last six months, until last week, when I was involved in an opening ceremony of five new bird hides at the Palic Lake, by the town of Subotica in the very north of Serbia, along the border with Hungary (all photos are from that area). They got the message right. And so did I.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
I was canoeing the Danube backwaters inside Belgrade, Serbia, on a warm and sunny November day when a Northern Goshawk tried to catch one of two Pygmy Cormorants. Northern Goshawk in Serbia, (c) Szekeres Levente. Entering some old data at eBird, I found myself puzzled with one record. This Goshawk was actually drowning its prey!
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