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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. He tweets as @albicilla66

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 –…

The great green Caribbean lowlands – Costa Rica

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

An Absolute Beginner in Costa Rica

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

“The Birder’s Guide to Africa” by Michael Mills

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

Shorebirds in Action: An introduction to waders and their behaviour, by Richard Chandler

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

About gulls and panic

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

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