Author Archives: Dragan

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

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

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

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

Sitting on a beach under a coconut tree (but not under the very crown, I know that), I am contemplating…

I have just returned from Costa Rica, the country about which I knew very little, despite it coming under my…

Starting in the mid-1990s, there was a “where to watch birds in…” series of five site guides written by Nigel…

Hi, my name is Dragan and I do not know my shorebirds. If I were to give a speech at…

Do you ever feel that you do not know your birds anymore? I had that feeling today. Usually I do…

Ah, late summer mornings, fresh, yet warm and sunny, when fields are rich-yellow and the river Danube so tranquil (so…