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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.

You Gotta Fight When You Think it’s the Right Thing to Do

I bird, therefore I am. Birding defines me, that much is clear. Yet, for the last month and a half…

The Belgrade Amazon Campaign or the House of the Eagle

Beljarica backwaters cover the 900 ha of wilderness on the eastern bank of the Danube, between the river and the…

Why good birders are like old elephants

Cover photo: Brian Stoneman was a living proof that some good birders do wear white. I do not know how…

Those magnificent places down the Danube

Cover photo: Black-headed Bunting by Mark S. Jobling / Wikimedia Commons This year, the first heat of the season came…

Checking the news

I start my day with a coffee, a strong Turkish coffee without sugar – it is the stuff that makes…

Birding in the rain

Are you stubborn enough to go out on Sunday morning even if it’s raining? Some of us are. In May,…

City Guide: Finding Birds in Belgrade

Is Belgrade the New Berlin is a question recently raised in Vogue by Marry Holland. Her article starts with a bold…

A River Runs Through It

Rainy Sunday morning, the type of weather that will keep most people in bed, but those who know the secret…

Beaten by an Angry Bird

Noisy wing beats, heavy landing behind the stern, water splashing everywhere and then, a hit of a heavy wing on…

Morning Coffee with Eastern Imperial Eagle

May 2009 After a wakeup call at highly uncivilised 3.45 am, at the crack of dawn I am sitting in…

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