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About Dragan

Dragan Simic is obsessively passionate about two things – birding and travelling in search of birds, and that has taken him from his native Balkans to the far shores of Europe and the Mediterranean, southern Africa, India and Central America. His 10,000 Birds blog posts were Highly Commended in the International Category of the 2015 BBC Wildlife Blogger Awards. Birder by passion and environmental scientist by education, he is an ecotourism consultant, a field researcher and a bird blogger who always thinks that birding must be better behind that next bend in the road, and that the best bird ever is – the next lifer.

Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries

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

Go for the jugular!

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

Computer-modelled Range Maps

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

The Great Bustard Search is On (2)

I woke up at 5 am, a good two hours before the sun (and I really hate to be up…

The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

I am preparing for the new census of one of the rarest birds of Serbia, the globally threatened Great Bustard,…

I screamed: Ural Owl!

I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”, all the time pointing with my right hand while holding the steering wheel with my left, and…

The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. Birdwise, it turned out to be a…

Talking of woodpeckers…

As tree crowns grow thinner, Autumn becomes the true woodpecker season. September in the Balkans started with the usual unruly…

Snow in Costa Rica!

It was already dark in mid-October when we arrived to the Costa Rican birding mecca of Rancho Naturalista to have…

The Scarlet Pacific of Costa Rica

The Crocodile Bridge on the Tarcoles River is a strange place. Cars stopped at the bridge itself, people walking –…

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