Feral Serbia Species 
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
With binoculars around my neck, I am leaving home, wondering which will be the first species on my year list. Obviously, I am talking of Feral Pigeons (also called city, town or street pigeons). The scientific name of the Feral Pigeon is Columba livia domestica and that last world tells the story. New Year’s Day 2014.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2015
Two Feral Pigeons. Three Feral Pigeons. One more Feral Pigeon. One Feral Pigeon. Serbia has a large number of pigeon fanciers and a long history of lack of law enforcement in the field of wildlife crime ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). Conservation Peregrine Falcon poisoning Serbia Switzerland'
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2014
These days I am busy with something called the “avitourism product“ of Belgrade, Serbia. Defining Belgrade bird specialties is the hard part – there is no defined criterion, beside attractiveness which often comes from how uncommon some species is. Pygmy Cormorant – winter (it breeds in Serbia, but overwinters in Belgrade).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
This section of the river is known as the Labudovo okno reserve, a Ramsar site and the most important waterbird wintering area in the whole of Serbia. Scanning the water for rarer species… S. Labudovo okno reserve, photo (2) by Marko Sciban. warns me of two locally rare Bean Geese. Watch for the dark beaks.” Yeah, right.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2019
The other day I counted my favourite section of the Danube River, the wide and shallow Labudovo okno Ramsar site in Serbia. The biggest count ever was less than 10 birds in the whole of Serbia. Here in Serbia, in the south of the continent, this species is a proper rarity. And this one chose to fly right in front of us.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
I had just a split-second glimpse of this species – my only second ever – yet immediately knew what is it, but I was driving through a snowbound countryside and had another car behind me, therefore I stopped a good 50 metres later to eBird it. Feral Pigeon – Columba livia. Fortunately, B. managed to see it, his largest owl ever.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2017
Bank Swallow) holes, among 60+ other bird species. They are declining in Serbia and in these lowlands, they are nowadays commonly spotted only on migration, but have mostly retreated from the plains (except some steppe pastures) and in the breeding season are common in the mountains above the upper forest line.
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