10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Europe: The sun is scorching the area, and the birds are nowhere to be seen. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. The closer one raises her head, than lies back.

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Wildlife Tigers Asia Europe 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2021

Not just mine, but all the most active birders of Belgrade, Serbia, were visiting this site at least 2-3 times a month: it is so conveniently close to the city, and even reachable by the city bus 108. Reva Pond was my favourite local patch until, a few years back, construction works started there. Photo by Branislav Dencic.

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Otters Protest Protesting Protesters 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. So, the perfect country to move to needs to have at least twice as many species as Serbia.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman understands how to set a scene, fill it with charismatic real-life characters, and top it off with magic–the hoot of a distant Great Gray Owl, a Burrowing Owl evading capture, an old barn sheltering young Barn Owls, a tree full of Long-eared Owls in the middle of a small town in northern Serbia.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 210