10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Right: Water Pipits landing on my car and sliding down the windscreen. Yet, Bosnia and Herzegovina was the very heartland of former Yugoslavia, with Sarajevo in its geographical centre. The scorching sun was right above my head. Overhearing that, the waiter came and introduced himself “I am from Kosovo”.

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Bosnia Croatia Herzegovina Slovenia 137

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). Two years ago I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”,

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Serbia Owls Slovakia Bosnia 243

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Somewhere between the latest TV footage from Bosnia, I saw a pair of ornithologists, one a biology student, the other one the Natural History Museum director, birding the nearby mountain. I still believe that choosing the right approach may be the most important phase of any research.

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Serbia Bosnia Research Lions 189

Critter News

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Right now, I am frustrated with the EU and the UN. This whole mess reminds me of other similar situations.Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda. The rebel forces in the Congo have controlled the gorilla sector of Virunga since 2007. Clearly, I haven't been following this as I should have been.

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Congo Gorillas Bosnia Rwanda 100