10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

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). And where to look for the Ural Owl in Serbia?

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Serbia Owls Slovakia Bosnia 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

Some five years ago I was involved in a project of ecotourism evaluation of the river Danube in Serbia, which included the city of Belgrade, founded at the bank of this river. Cranes breed in very small numbers in UK but are always impressive en masse. Black Storks migrate along and breed in the Danube flood zone.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 250

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2016

Over a few obstacles, we follow the dirt track into an abandoned and overgrown claypit. Although quite a few species will have a second brood ( European Starlings among them), in the lowlands, mid-June is the end of the breeding season for many small passerines. Yet, Starlings cannot dig and are happy to use abandoned cavities.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Serbia 156

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2017

Paving of the road across the Reva Pond started and was abandoned several months later: only the sidewalk was paved. Having mobility issues, I bird by car only (or by canoe, but that is another story , of friendship and loss). And most of my local patches, the best ones – at least, are not accessible by car any more.

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Rights Serbia Collecting Abandon 122