10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2023

A Bulgarian conservationist Emilian Stoynov told me that this vulture hatched in 2021 in Spain and, rehabilitated, was transferred to neighbouring Bulgaria, acclimatised and released in Vrachanski Balkan Nature Park in 2022. It has never visited these parts of Serbia before. And the Cinereous Vulture is a lifer to me!

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Bulgaria McDonalds Eagles Serbia 260

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2020

First, 800 km of driving from Belgrade through Bulgaria to very NE corner of Greece and the Dadia Forest National Park with its 36 species of diurnal raptors, out of Europe’s 38. This was only my seventh observation of this species in Europe (3 in Greece, 4 in Serbia).

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Greece Bulgaria Birds Serbia 225

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The sun rises over the village of Chrysochorafa, by Kerkini Lake in the north of Greece, not far from the triple border with Bulgaria and FYRO Macedonia. In my native Serbia, I observe them every few years, but… I cannot see its bill. Early September morning. Showing only its nape with a winter, salt ’n pepper cap.

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Greece Pelicans Serbia Eagles 181

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

“I would certainly recommend Serbia to visiting birders. Nonetheless, I visited some excellent habitats, especially the flooded wetlands, and saw some good birds,” wrote the UK Birdwatch Magazine journalist Mike Unwin of his bird tour of northern Serbia 15 years ago. A birding year in Serbia. What has changed in the meantime?

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Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For example, I simply cannot comprehend how such seemingly common species such as the Common Pochard (yes, for the third time, the common), still allowed for shooting in Serbia and many other countries, found its way into the Red List of Threatened Species. There are many reasons for their decrease and yet, all of them (but one?)

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Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 198