10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

They may have been disturbed by the presence of hunters in the Danube backwaters. When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there.

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Serbia Otters Boars Hunters 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

These birds have already left my native Serbia, further north, and this is not just the only one I have seen in Greece, but my last bee-eater of the season. I can still hear the gunshots and hope that the hunters really do shoot only the flying birds. On a wire by the road, one European Bee-eater awaits me. Saxicola rubetra.

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Greece Serbia Hunters Cows 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2014

More of a hunt? Satisfying the most ancient need in one hunter-gatherer’s mind? Birding Europe Serbia wetlands' Being a birder redefines ones travel views and arrangements – unlike old churches, birding tourist attractions have wings and tend to use them, which makes locating them more of a game. To be… alive?

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Serbia Farming India Europe 258

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

These birds have already left my native Serbia, further north, and this is not just the only one I have seen in Greece, but my last bee-eater of the season. I can still hear the gunshots and hope that the hunters really do shoot only the flying birds. On a wire by the road, one European Bee-eater awaits me.

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Greece Serbia Hunters Cows 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I am preparing for the new census of one of the rarest birds of Serbia, the globally threatened Great Bustard , taking place two days from now. Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds. m–8 ft 10 in).

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Serbia Romania Hungary Hunting 111