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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.

Message in a bottle

Did you ever get a message in a bottle? Completely meaningless gibberish from an entirely unknown guy (from my experience,…

No two scaups are equal

January is sort of a birding sprint – you start fresh and, all of a sudden, head for them all….

Flight of a Red-tailed Hawk

I can imagine how you hate to see a Bald Eagle in a movie and hear the Red-tailed Hawk screech….

Borderline of Countable

As usual at this time of year, I visited the city landfill to look for gulls. To be honest, mostly…

Snowbound Birding

The entire world, it seemed, was buried under two feet of snow. I was checking weather forecasts for days looking…

We are Just Money Grubbers

Out of just under 200 bird species I observed this year in SE Europe, there are 6 threatened species. Some…

That Time of the Year Again

How many species have I observed this year? The malicious eBird answers: only 186! Yuck! Yes, I know, I’ll reach…

Cry “Havoc!” or a Birding Movie before the Birding Movie

Can you remember any birding movie before Schrodinger’s Cat? Probably not. For me, the only “birding” movie that I knew…

I Remember Elephants

Late last month, while searching for bears, woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from…

The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

I dipped a bird recently – possibly a lifer. While crossing Gramos Mountain in northern Greece, a Dendrocopos woodpecker flew…

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