Dragan's Birding Travel Tips
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ecotourism consultant, destination maker, experience curator, birder, guide, wildlife-travel writer and the @WildlifeMag award winning blogger www.10000birds.com/author/dragan, ambassador for @SwarovskiOptik
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#Belgrade #birding #birdsuniteourworld
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#Belgrade #birding #birdsuniteourworld
#Birding #Beljarica, #Belgrade, a spacious flood retention basin of seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, had a great observation of Black Woodpeckers, Great White Egret, 📷 White-tailed Eagle, Mistle Thrush, Meadow Pipit, Water Pipit, Hawfinch
🌳 #ForlandLeveObaleDunava NR 🌳
🌳 #ForlandLeveObaleDunava NR 🌳
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
#Birding #Beljarica, #Belgrade, a spacious flood retention basin of seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, had a great observation of Black Woodpeckers, Great White Egret, 📷 White-tailed Eagle, Mistle Thrush, Meadow Pipit, Water Pipit, Hawfinch
🌳 #ForlandLeveObaleDunava NR 🌳
🌳 #ForlandLeveObaleDunava NR 🌳
With a Dec-Mar dry season, #Inirida, #Colombia offers the transition #birding zone between the true Amazon forest, and the grasslands and white sand forests of the Guianan shield and the #Orinoco Basin. With 550 recorded sp., expect 200sp/week. Single-base: #Inírida.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#Colombia 🇨🇴 is one of those countries my dreams are made of, and Hilty’s "#Birds of Colombia" is a stunning book with beautiful artwork, authoritative, if concise texts and easy to navigate maps. Highly recommended!
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Hilty’s Birds of Colombia field guide review
Birds of Colombia (Lynx and BirdLife International Field Guides) by Steven L. Hilty “Sadly, a few specimens, salvaged from these shipments, were so rare that they have never been found in the wild”…
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November 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
#Colombia 🇨🇴 is one of those countries my dreams are made of, and Hilty’s "#Birds of Colombia" is a stunning book with beautiful artwork, authoritative, if concise texts and easy to navigate maps. Highly recommended!
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#lynxnaturebooks
#birdbooks
#fieldguides
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Those wild landscapes that I know, love and study: #birding #DeliblatoSands Reserve, 1hr east of #Belgrade
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November 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Those wild landscapes that I know, love and study: #birding #DeliblatoSands Reserve, 1hr east of #Belgrade
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Late November #birding #DeliblatoSands Reserve, 1hr east of #Belgrade, #Serbia – 350 km2 of forest (40%), scrub (30%) and grassland (20%) in the largest inland dune system of Europe: Lesser Spotted, and Syrian Woodpecker, Mistle Thrush, Meadow Pipit, Hawfinch, Common Linnet, European Serin
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Late November #birding #DeliblatoSands Reserve, 1hr east of #Belgrade, #Serbia – 350 km2 of forest (40%), scrub (30%) and grassland (20%) in the largest inland dune system of Europe: Lesser Spotted, and Syrian Woodpecker, Mistle Thrush, Meadow Pipit, Hawfinch, Common Linnet, European Serin
Had my first Hume's Warbler the other day... ✌️
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Had my first Hume's Warbler the other day... ✌️
#Birding the islands of #SaoTomeandPrincipe 180sp, 65sp/8days incl. all 27 #endemics — more endemics/km2 than anywhere on 🌍; key areas on #SaoTome: Monte Carmo & Lagoa Amelia; on #Principe: Bela Vista above Santo Antonio, 📷 #RocaSundy Hotel & S. forests, Ilhas Tinhosas for seabirds; Jun–Aug Dec–Jan🌴
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
#Birding the islands of #SaoTomeandPrincipe 180sp, 65sp/8days incl. all 27 #endemics — more endemics/km2 than anywhere on 🌍; key areas on #SaoTome: Monte Carmo & Lagoa Amelia; on #Principe: Bela Vista above Santo Antonio, 📷 #RocaSundy Hotel & S. forests, Ilhas Tinhosas for seabirds; Jun–Aug Dec–Jan🌴
#Birding #Egypt 480 birds, 150 breeding in the country, 160sp/2weeks: Cairo — Painted Snipe, Senegal Coucal; Hurghada — White-eyed Gull, White-cheeked Tern; Luxor — Nile Valley Sunbird, Aswan — Green-backed Heron; Sinai specialties found nowhere else — Sinai Rosefinch, Palestine Sunbird; Dec to Jan🌴
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
#Birding #Egypt 480 birds, 150 breeding in the country, 160sp/2weeks: Cairo — Painted Snipe, Senegal Coucal; Hurghada — White-eyed Gull, White-cheeked Tern; Luxor — Nile Valley Sunbird, Aswan — Green-backed Heron; Sinai specialties found nowhere else — Sinai Rosefinch, Palestine Sunbird; Dec to Jan🌴
#Birding #Morocco 510sp, 210 breeding in the country, 190sp/12days; regions: Atlas mountains #Ouarzazate (📷 #HôtelLeFintOuarzazate) and #BoumaleneDades; Sahara Erfoud temporary lake of #Merzouga & dunes of #ErgChebbi (📷 #MerzougaDesertGlamping); Agadir coast Souss & Massa estuaries; late Apr-May🌴🌴
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#Birding #Morocco 510sp, 210 breeding in the country, 190sp/12days; regions: Atlas mountains #Ouarzazate (📷 #HôtelLeFintOuarzazate) and #BoumaleneDades; Sahara Erfoud temporary lake of #Merzouga & dunes of #ErgChebbi (📷 #MerzougaDesertGlamping); Agadir coast Souss & Massa estuaries; late Apr-May🌴🌴
#Birding #Panama: the #CanopyCamp in #Darien lowland rainforest, safari-style tents with wooden floors, beds, fans &private bathrooms: 250sp/5days: Harpy, & Crested Eagle, White-eared Conebill, Red-billed Scythebill, Royal Flycatcher, Pied Puffbird; five-hour-drive from Panama City; Sep to early Nov
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
#Birding #Panama: the #CanopyCamp in #Darien lowland rainforest, safari-style tents with wooden floors, beds, fans &private bathrooms: 250sp/5days: Harpy, & Crested Eagle, White-eared Conebill, Red-billed Scythebill, Royal Flycatcher, Pied Puffbird; five-hour-drive from Panama City; Sep to early Nov
#Birding the remnant oak forests in the Sava River floodplain, near #Belgrade: Sparrowhawk, Red & Black Kites, WT Eagle, Syrian, Green & MS Woods, Marsh Tit, Goldcrest, Firecrest, ST Treecreeper, Stonechat, Brambling
🌳 #JakovackiKljuc (1) 🌳 #ObedskaBara (2, 3)
🌳 #birdsuniteourworld 🌳 #seetheunseen
🌳 #JakovackiKljuc (1) 🌳 #ObedskaBara (2, 3)
🌳 #birdsuniteourworld 🌳 #seetheunseen
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#Birding the remnant oak forests in the Sava River floodplain, near #Belgrade: Sparrowhawk, Red & Black Kites, WT Eagle, Syrian, Green & MS Woods, Marsh Tit, Goldcrest, Firecrest, ST Treecreeper, Stonechat, Brambling
🌳 #JakovackiKljuc (1) 🌳 #ObedskaBara (2, 3)
🌳 #birdsuniteourworld 🌳 #seetheunseen
🌳 #JakovackiKljuc (1) 🌳 #ObedskaBara (2, 3)
🌳 #birdsuniteourworld 🌳 #seetheunseen
Likely the best place in the 🌏 to observe the #Leopard (other than Sri Lanka) is the #BeraSafariLodge among granite hills & scrub forests between Udaipur & Jodhpur, #Rajasthan, #India. 200 bird sp. incl. Sarus Crane, Rock Eagle-Owl, Bar-Headed Goose, 🦩🦩; 3hrs by road from Udaipur ✈️; late May to June
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Likely the best place in the 🌏 to observe the #Leopard (other than Sri Lanka) is the #BeraSafariLodge among granite hills & scrub forests between Udaipur & Jodhpur, #Rajasthan, #India. 200 bird sp. incl. Sarus Crane, Rock Eagle-Owl, Bar-Headed Goose, 🦩🦩; 3hrs by road from Udaipur ✈️; late May to June
#Birding the saline desert of #LittleRann which floods every monsoon, #Dasada, #Gujarat, #India: 250sp 🦩🦩🦩, MacQueen’s Bustard, Indian Courser, Long-legged Buzzard, Greater Hoopoe-Lark, Sykes’s Nightjar, Pallid Scops Owl, Variable Wheatear; #RannRiders Lodge, 2.5hrs by road from Ahmedabad ✈️; Dec-Feb
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#Birding the saline desert of #LittleRann which floods every monsoon, #Dasada, #Gujarat, #India: 250sp 🦩🦩🦩, MacQueen’s Bustard, Indian Courser, Long-legged Buzzard, Greater Hoopoe-Lark, Sykes’s Nightjar, Pallid Scops Owl, Variable Wheatear; #RannRiders Lodge, 2.5hrs by road from Ahmedabad ✈️; Dec-Feb
#Birding dry deciduous forest of #GirNationalPark #India 350sp 3days/100sp: Mottled Wood Owl, Brown Fish Owl, Jungle Nightjar, Painted Sandgrouse, Indian Pitta, Red-naped Ibis, Red-headed Vulture, Short-toed Snake Eagle, Barred Buttonquail, Lion; #GirBirdingLodge, 4hrs by road from Rajkot ✈️; Dec-Mar
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#Birding dry deciduous forest of #GirNationalPark #India 350sp 3days/100sp: Mottled Wood Owl, Brown Fish Owl, Jungle Nightjar, Painted Sandgrouse, Indian Pitta, Red-naped Ibis, Red-headed Vulture, Short-toed Snake Eagle, Barred Buttonquail, Lion; #GirBirdingLodge, 4hrs by road from Rajkot ✈️; Dec-Mar
#Birding #BlackbuckNationalPark grasslands, #Velavadar, #Gujarat, #India 300sp: Lesser Florican, Stoliczka's Bushchat, Pallid & Montagu’s Harriers, Bimaculated & Greater Short-toed Larks, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Painted Francolin, Indian Wolf; #BlackbuckLodge, 2hrs by road from Bhavnagar ✈️; Nov-Mar
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
#Birding #BlackbuckNationalPark grasslands, #Velavadar, #Gujarat, #India 300sp: Lesser Florican, Stoliczka's Bushchat, Pallid & Montagu’s Harriers, Bimaculated & Greater Short-toed Larks, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Painted Francolin, Indian Wolf; #BlackbuckLodge, 2hrs by road from Bhavnagar ✈️; Nov-Mar
#Birding tropical moist and dry deciduous forests of #Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, #India, 330sp: endemic Malabar Trogon, M. Grey Hornbill, M. Parakeet, White-bellied Woodpecker, Indian Pitta, the largest population of Asian Elephants; 📷 #KAAVSafariLodge @ #Kabini, 5hrs drive from #Bangalore ✈️; Oct-Mar
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#Birding tropical moist and dry deciduous forests of #Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, #India, 330sp: endemic Malabar Trogon, M. Grey Hornbill, M. Parakeet, White-bellied Woodpecker, Indian Pitta, the largest population of Asian Elephants; 📷 #KAAVSafariLodge @ #Kabini, 5hrs drive from #Bangalore ✈️; Oct-Mar
#Birding #SadiriLodge, 550sp, in the foothill rainforest @ 900m asl, inside the #Madidi NP (1250sp) in the #Amazonia #Bolivia, 2hrs drive from #Rurrenabaque: Military & Red-Bellied Macaws, Yungas & Cinnamon-faced Tyrannulets, Sharpbill; Sep-Nov when many sp breed
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November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
#Birding #SadiriLodge, 550sp, in the foothill rainforest @ 900m asl, inside the #Madidi NP (1250sp) in the #Amazonia #Bolivia, 2hrs drive from #Rurrenabaque: Military & Red-Bellied Macaws, Yungas & Cinnamon-faced Tyrannulets, Sharpbill; Sep-Nov when many sp breed
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Having more large carnivores — #brownbears, wolves and lynx — than anywhere else in Europe, the #Fagaras Mountains of #Romania are a #rewilding site that should become the continent’s largest forest national park: www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
#Carpathians 🌲 #bearwatching 🐻 #birding 🦉
#Carpathians 🌲 #bearwatching 🐻 #birding 🦉
Bears, wolves and rewilding in Romania's Southern Carpathian mountains
The old ways still linger in Romania’s Southern Carpathian mountains, where bears and wolves wander the forests and slow-paced villages stud the hills.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Having more large carnivores — #brownbears, wolves and lynx — than anywhere else in Europe, the #Fagaras Mountains of #Romania are a #rewilding site that should become the continent’s largest forest national park: www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
#Carpathians 🌲 #bearwatching 🐻 #birding 🦉
#Carpathians 🌲 #bearwatching 🐻 #birding 🦉
With thriving #BrownBears, Wolf and Lynx, 100+ Bison & growing Beaver population, the #Carpathians offer all 10 of Europe's woodpeckers & montane specialities, such as Pygmy Owl, Hazel Grouse & Sombre Tit
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🐻🌳 #Transfagarasan 🌲🐻 #bearwatching 🐻🌳 #birding 🌲🐻 #Romania
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🐻🌳 #Transfagarasan 🌲🐻 #bearwatching 🐻🌳 #birding 🌲🐻 #Romania
Vulture reintroductions set to 'complete' Romania's wilderness
With thriving populations of other birds and large mammals, the reintroduction of three species of vulture to Romania's mountains is set to restore the country's lost biodiversity even further. David ...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
With thriving #BrownBears, Wolf and Lynx, 100+ Bison & growing Beaver population, the #Carpathians offer all 10 of Europe's woodpeckers & montane specialities, such as Pygmy Owl, Hazel Grouse & Sombre Tit
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🐻🌳 #Transfagarasan 🌲🐻 #bearwatching 🐻🌳 #birding 🌲🐻 #Romania
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🐻🌳 #Transfagarasan 🌲🐻 #bearwatching 🐻🌳 #birding 🌲🐻 #Romania
Beech and conifer forests &the alpine zone #birding in the Romanian #Carpathians: Hazel Grouse, Ural & Boreal Owls, White-backed &Three-toed Woods, Willow &Crested Tits, Crossbill, Nutcracker, Rock Thrush, Alpine Accentor, Wallcreeper; May-Jun
#ValeaCuPesti Hotel 🌳 #Transfagarasan 🐻 #bearwatching 🌲
#ValeaCuPesti Hotel 🌳 #Transfagarasan 🐻 #bearwatching 🌲
November 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Beech and conifer forests &the alpine zone #birding in the Romanian #Carpathians: Hazel Grouse, Ural & Boreal Owls, White-backed &Three-toed Woods, Willow &Crested Tits, Crossbill, Nutcracker, Rock Thrush, Alpine Accentor, Wallcreeper; May-Jun
#ValeaCuPesti Hotel 🌳 #Transfagarasan 🐻 #bearwatching 🌲
#ValeaCuPesti Hotel 🌳 #Transfagarasan 🐻 #bearwatching 🌲
#Transfagarasan — Jeremy Clarkson’s "best road in the world," traverses the Romanian #Carpathians, where many #BrownBears come to the road, especially by the #Vidraru Lake. However habituated, they are still very wild & outright dangerous!
📷 #ValeaCuPesti Hotel 🌳🐻🌳 #bearwatching 🌲🐻🌳 #birding 🌲🐻🌲
📷 #ValeaCuPesti Hotel 🌳🐻🌳 #bearwatching 🌲🐻🌳 #birding 🌲🐻🌲
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
#Transfagarasan — Jeremy Clarkson’s "best road in the world," traverses the Romanian #Carpathians, where many #BrownBears come to the road, especially by the #Vidraru Lake. However habituated, they are still very wild & outright dangerous!
📷 #ValeaCuPesti Hotel 🌳🐻🌳 #bearwatching 🌲🐻🌳 #birding 🌲🐻🌲
📷 #ValeaCuPesti Hotel 🌳🐻🌳 #bearwatching 🌲🐻🌳 #birding 🌲🐻🌲
There are still around 20,400 #BrownBears left in Europe, but isolation means danger. Only 10 fragmented populations remain, some with fewer than 100 bears. Hunting, roads & habitat loss are breaking their territories apart
#bearwatching 🌳🌲🐻🌳 #birding 🌳🐻🌲🐻🌳 #Transfagarasan 🐻🌳 #Romania
#bearwatching 🌳🌲🐻🌳 #birding 🌳🐻🌲🐻🌳 #Transfagarasan 🐻🌳 #Romania
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
There are still around 20,400 #BrownBears left in Europe, but isolation means danger. Only 10 fragmented populations remain, some with fewer than 100 bears. Hunting, roads & habitat loss are breaking their territories apart
#bearwatching 🌳🌲🐻🌳 #birding 🌳🐻🌲🐻🌳 #Transfagarasan 🐻🌳 #Romania
#bearwatching 🌳🌲🐻🌳 #birding 🌳🐻🌲🐻🌳 #Transfagarasan 🐻🌳 #Romania
In the most of Europe, #BrownBears are mythical creatures living only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. It has become extinct, one may say, but such formulation hides the gruesome fact: it has been exterminated. By us.
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#Greece 🐻 #birding 🌲🐻🌳 #bearwatching
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#Greece 🐻 #birding 🌲🐻🌳 #bearwatching
There’s a bear! There’s a bear!
In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. It has become extinct, one may say, but such formulation hides the gruesome fact: it…
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November 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
In the most of Europe, #BrownBears are mythical creatures living only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. It has become extinct, one may say, but such formulation hides the gruesome fact: it has been exterminated. By us.
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#Greece 🐻 #birding 🌲🐻🌳 #bearwatching
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#Greece 🐻 #birding 🌲🐻🌳 #bearwatching
And the sensation of discomfort somehow vanishes. I am on a mission to finally see my first #BrownBear and everything else becomes secondary. We are in the #TaraNationalPark in western #Serbia, ranging from 1,000-1,500 m above sea level
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#birding 🌳🌲🐻🌳 #bearwatching
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#birding 🌳🌲🐻🌳 #bearwatching
Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia
A narrow forest road takes us to the chain blocking the entrance, with a sign “Area closed – bear danger”. Ranko Milanovic, Tara National Park ranger, leaves the car to open the passage.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
And the sensation of discomfort somehow vanishes. I am on a mission to finally see my first #BrownBear and everything else becomes secondary. We are in the #TaraNationalPark in western #Serbia, ranging from 1,000-1,500 m above sea level
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#birding 🌳🌲🐻🌳 #bearwatching
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#birding 🌳🌲🐻🌳 #bearwatching
The most detailed collection of site descriptions of major #birding areas near #Belgrade (x) – some of my 10,000 Birds blog posts from the last 10 years
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Should I turn them into a guidebook?
🌳 #ObedskaBara 1, #Beljarica 2, #DeliblatoSands 3
🌳 #birdsuniteourworld
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Should I turn them into a guidebook?
🌳 #ObedskaBara 1, #Beljarica 2, #DeliblatoSands 3
🌳 #birdsuniteourworld
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The most detailed collection of site descriptions of major #birding areas near #Belgrade (x) – some of my 10,000 Birds blog posts from the last 10 years
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Should I turn them into a guidebook?
🌳 #ObedskaBara 1, #Beljarica 2, #DeliblatoSands 3
🌳 #birdsuniteourworld
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Should I turn them into a guidebook?
🌳 #ObedskaBara 1, #Beljarica 2, #DeliblatoSands 3
🌳 #birdsuniteourworld