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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 a field researcher, an ecotourism consultant, a bird guide and a guy who always think that birding must be better around the next bend in the road, and that the best bird ever is – the next lifer.

Africa – Birding down Memory Lane

Gaborone, Botswana; June 1999 Marvellous orange-pink sunrise high over the Indian Ocean… Then, landing on a small airport at Gaborone,…

Birding from a Hide

What do you think makes for a good bird hide? I have asked myself that same question many times over…

Chilling out with Rollers and Hoopoes

Quiet morning on the Danube, paddling again after too long a time. It is a workday morning and despite being…

Birding on Steroids or the Kerkini Lake – Greece – in 10 Pictures

Instead of waiting for the spring to come to me, I prefer to travel south to greet it. (One may…

Those Sea Serpents

One Common Raven is disappearing towards its nest among the branches of the poplar plantation, only to reappear a few…

Kamikaze Pigeons and a War to Extinction

A Hooded Crow. Two Feral Pigeons. Three Feral Pigeons. One more Hooded Crow. And so on… not much of a…

Just a Few More Days…

While February offers some good birding (wintering waterbirds, gulls), it is a kind of an anticlimax after the intensive and…

My eBird Citizen Science Experiment

Two years ago, I was counting active nests of Rooks in the flat agricultural landscape north of Belgrade, Serbia. We…

Some Yummy-scented Winter Birding

Not so long ago, there was a question on this blog: which is the most interesting gull in the world?…

Is my Rhino Still Alive?

The annual number of rhino poached in South Africa last year rose to 1,215, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa told…

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