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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I was canoeing the Danube backwaters inside Belgrade, Serbia, on a warm and sunny November day when a Northern Goshawk tried to catch one of two Pygmy Cormorants. Yet, one other hunting attempt in the same area I do remember. The next memorable hunt came from winter 2006/07. Northern Goshawk in Serbia, (c) Szekeres Levente.

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Serbia 2004 Eagles Chickens 256

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MAY 28, 2015

I have asked myself that same question many times over the last six months, until last week, when I was involved in an opening ceremony of five new bird hides at the Palic Lake, by the town of Subotica in the very north of Serbia, along the border with Hungary (all photos are from that area). They got the message right. And so did I.

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Serbia Birds Spain Hungary 258

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JULY 5, 2018

As you know, I started to bird from a canoe, exploring the Danube backwaters in Belgrade, Serbia. What I have always missed there and what I still miss is to experience presence of the European Beaver. And that was the time when all 400 km2 were still open to annual rhythms of flooding and represented a famous waterbird hunting ground.

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Beavers Serbia Eagles Hungary 131

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JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. They are also hunted. I don’t think so.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

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MARCH 20, 2014

even before I took binoculars, I was always chasing, hmm… impressionable experiences. The intensity of experience is not the same, but, e.g. focusing on a single bird and trying to solve the puzzle… or finding the rarest owl of India , that was a mind-blowing one. More of a hunt? Birding Europe Serbia wetlands'

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Farming Serbia Europe India 251