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About Dragan

Now 50, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – barely more than half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing. In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia to the four corners of the Old World: England and Spain, southern Africa and India. Birder by passion and environmentalist by education, he is a field researcher and a bird guide, an ecotourism consultant, a bird blogger and a guy who always think that birding must be better behind that next curve of the road, and that the best bird ever is the – next lifer. His 10,000 Birds blog posts were Highly Commended in International Category of the 2015 BBC Wildlife Blogger Awards.

Playback or Birding in the Dark

It is a cold night in early March and the young moon barely visible through the thick branches of the…

GARBO TALKS!

Don’t you hate those people who say “I told you so”? But – I did tell you. While birding the…

My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around…

Trump or Cruz? Clinton or Sanders? NOA! Vote for me!

Yes, none of the above. Vote for me! But what do I stand for? What do I want to deliver?…

Freeze-birding down the Danube

At the snowy Danube riverbank, we are waiting for geese to come to their roost inside the mostly submerged island….

The Ross Sea – the Last Intact Marine Ecosystem on Earth – and I

“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and…

Swarovski 8×30 CL Companion: Blue Birds in 3D

I like 8x30s. I started with one such pair, until I capsized my kayak and had to swim to the…

THE BIGGEST URBAN PYGMY CORMORANT ROOST IN THE WORLD DECREASED!

Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post), this year I invited…

How I dipped the Horned Grebe

…or, how critical are you in twitch or dip situations? Here is one example. In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian)…

How I Become a Birder

I think I was 19 when I made my first bucket list of things I’d like to do, from horse-back…

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