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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

10,000 Birds

Yet, Bosnia and Herzegovina was the very heartland of former Yugoslavia, with Sarajevo in its geographical centre. The road was new, the only sign of the recent times were bullet holes in a few abandoned houses, but that was a rare sight. Overhearing that, the waiter came and introduced himself “I am from Kosovo”.

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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

10,000 Birds

The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia).

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