10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2024

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

Herzegovina 193

Herzegovina Bosnia Albania Macedonia 193

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2018

After the first two vulture restaurants were opened in Western Serbia in 1990s, the population recovered, they even attracted birds from the then war-torn Herzegovina to move in. And the vulture restaurant attracts other guests, such as ravens. Nowadays there are about 140 pairs in the country, about 25 of them in the Tresnjica Gorge.

Serbia 105

Serbia Herzegovina Bosnia Sheep 105

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Yet, Bosnia and Herzegovina was the very heartland of former Yugoslavia, with Sarajevo in its geographical centre. One evening in Brussels, we realized that people from all countries that came out of former Yugoslavia were around the same table once again – all countries but Kosovo.

Bosnia 139

Bosnia Croatia Herzegovina Slovenia 139

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Or Bosnia and Herzegovina. Notice that had I not used the Oxford Comma there, you’d be thinking “Costa Rica and Panama” was a country like Trinidad and Tobago. Or Antigua and Barbuda.

Antigua and Barbuda 114

Antigua and Barbuda El Salvador America Costa Rica 114