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Serbia – birding overview of a year in the Central Balkans

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Serbia has 317 eBirded species so far, or 89% of the 356 in the national checklist. Among travel guides, due to its extensive coverage of natural history and birding sites, recommendation goes to Laurence Mitchell’s Serbia: The Bradt Travel Guide (5th edition, 2017). Glossy Ibises are localized, as well as Griffon Vultures.

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Morning Coffee with Eastern Imperial Eagle

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Actually, I am not waiting for them, but for the Eastern Imperial Eagle to come here to hunt Susliks – an eagle from one of the last two remaining nests in Serbia. Alas, there is no eagle to be seen either. Not an eagle in sight. Blackcap , European Stonechat … no eagles.

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Planning and executing birding plans in the times of corona-virus

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The first thing to appear was its yellow bill – a locally rare Cattle Egret ! This was only my seventh observation of this species in Europe (3 in Greece, 4 in Serbia). Farther on along the levee, there was a huge White-tailed Eagle standing on a big, old poplar. I am a stranger in his realm.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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During my lifetime, this species was rare in my native Serbia, too. That was not all, a few days later, by one village rubbish dump, not far from Ahmedabad, we had more than 100 Egyptian Vultures (above); plus 20 more at the dead cattle dumping site at the outskirts of the city.

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All my patches

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Consequently, my first local patch becomes a largish Danube River floodzone opposite to Belgrade (Serbia) city centre (cover photo: April 1992). It is a winter trap for rare gulls and that is where I found the 4th Great Black-backed Gull for Serbia this winter, as well as the 6th Pallas’s Gull two winters ago.

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Collaborative List ? May 2020

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7 beats contributed their sightings from 7 countries (Hong Kong, UK, China, USA, Serbia, Australia and, of course, Costa Rica). Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis). Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). 149 checklists were submitted, accounting for 465 species. Accipiter sp.

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Collaborative list November – 2021

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Thank goodness that the rest of the beats have been busily birding,that’s what they like to do… 9 of them submitted 114 checklists via eBird and amassed 525 species from 7 (China, Australia, Mexico, Costa Rica, UK, Serbia and USA) countries during November. 156 Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis.

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