Author Archives: Dragan

Summer is normally the vacation season, for ordinary tourists at least. Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their…

As you know, I started to bird from a canoe, exploring the Danube backwaters in Belgrade, Serbia. Those foreland backwaters…

Who is eyeing gulls? I sure didn’t, for many years. Too simple. White and grey? Colouristically mediocre. Not even 60…

The beginning of the northern summer is a good time (as any) to dream of some of the most biodiverse…

White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings, I heard a…

What was the weirdest place you ever birded? Some smelly sewage ponds? Oh, don’t bother responding. A war zone? Then you…

Turning off the asphalt, I enter the Deliblato Sands steppe, between the Danube and the Carpathian Mountains in the northeast…

Morning at the slopes of Mt. Povlen, a quick stop filled with a song that sounds familiar, but I haven’t…

Who else, but a birder, would drive with windows down in subzero temperatures? Just ahead of the final cold spell…

During the final stages of the Pan-European bird-atlassing work last year, computer models of Serbian ranges for some 150 bird…