10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Last month, I birded my favourite local patch, Beljarica – the best eBird hotspot in Belgrade city and the 3rd best in Serbia – four times. Also, a European Roller and a Turtle Dove made their appearances, too. but because this large spillway protects the city from flooding. Photo: Gordan Pomorisac. And I felt… relieved?

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Serbia Birds Boars Otters 287

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.

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Otters Protest Protesting Protesters 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2018

Turning off the asphalt, I enter the Deliblato Sands steppe, between the Danube and the Carpathian Mountains in the northeast of Serbia, where the first bird to greet me is a Northern Wheatear , followed by a Crested Lark. A pair of European Turtle Doves on a wire, followed by two soaring Common Buzzards …. I must digress further.

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Serbia Eagles Falcons Farming 134

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

He raised his binoculars above his head and cried out with courage and clarity, “I am Sparticus!” They ranged across 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, China, Brazil, Mexico, Serbia and Uganda). Oriental Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia orientalis. Something needed to be done. calle jocote.

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2019 Farming Sparrows Charlotte 144