10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2020

The coronavirus has locked us all in, literally, doing something that was totally unthinkable only a few months ago: it has prevented us from birding abroad! I am talking of the very heart of the Balkans and the final birding frontier of Europe: Serbia. Serbia – the big picture. Birding overview. Top-20 birds.

Serbia 317

Serbia Sanctuary Birds Bosnia 317

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). Photo DmitrySA/Wikimedia Commons.

Serbia 246

Serbia Owls Slovakia Bosnia 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2018

Our destination lies further west, along the Drina River, which marks the border between Serbia and Bosnia. Common Chaffinches and Great T**s are calling from several directions at once, but even such extrovert birds are surprisingly hard to spot among young leaves. And the cliff was white with bird droppings.

Serbia 111

Serbia Herzegovina Bosnia Sheep 111

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Even the first bird club was founded several years later. Two years passed before I found myself looking for a new outdoor pursuit, something to do from a sitting position… And took birding? And from the kayak cockpit, I started to bird. I knew nothing of it – but the fact that it had a geriatric image.

Serbia 190

Serbia Bosnia Research Lions 190