Those wild landscapes that I know, love and study: #birding #DeliblatoSands Reserve, 1hr east of #Belgrade www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM0e...

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... ✌️

#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🌴

#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

#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

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

#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

#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 ▶️ www.10000birds.com/birding-lodg...

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 🦉

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 www.birdguides.com/articles/vul... 🐻🌳 #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 🌲

#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 🌲🐻🌲

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

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. ▶️ www.10000birds.com/theres-a-bea... #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 ▶️ 10000birds.com/birding-the-... #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 ▶️ www.10000birds.com/emerging-bir... Should I turn them into a guidebook? 🌳 #ObedskaBara 1, #Beljarica 2, #DeliblatoSands 3 🌳 #birdsuniteourworld

Who are 10,000 Birds Writers and why do they contribute to the site without pay? We thought they deserved a proper introduction, so we started this series to find out: Dragan Simic — Playback is the murder of the impossible ▶️ www.10000birds.com/interviews-w... #Belgrade #birding #birdsuniteourworld

After never colder beginning of the month – literally, since the 19th century when measurements started to be recorded, early October was never so cold – weather finally became more pleasant. Off we went #birding #Beljarica Backwaters ( #Belgrade) and... ▶️ www.10000birds.com/october-2025...

Steppic habitats, scrub & mixed forest in the largest inland dune system of Europe, about an hour’ drive east of #Belgrade, or late October #birding the #DeliblatoSands Reserve: Sparrowhawk, Goldcrest, Short-toed Treecreeper, Wren, Mistle Thrush, Fieldfare, Black Redstart, Hawfinch, Linnet, Siskin🌳🌲

And finally, #birding pays off, the first #interview with me just came out: www.10000birds.com/interviews-w...

#Belgrade holds an important #PygmyCormorant winter roost, numbering around 4,000 birds, representing 2 % of the global, and over 5 % of their European population. In the last few hours of daylight, they are commuting along the Danube to their undisclosed roost. 📷Z. Nikodijevic #birding

Mid-October #birding the #Danube Backwaters' seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, yet not in this season: bone-dry at the moment! White-tailed Eagle, Great Grey Shrike, Chiffchaff, Wren, Robin, Black Redstart, Dunnock, Hawfinch — #ForlandLeveObaleDunava Reserve🌳 #Belgrade

Mid-October #birding traditional rural farming landscape by the #Paljuvi Reservoir, with old trees, shrubs, hedges, heterogeneous arable land and orchards, 1hr SW from #Belgrade: Little Owl, Green, & MS Wood, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Wren, Black Redstart, Meadow Pipit, Linnet, Serin, Reed Bunting

Looking for a new winter #birding destination? #Belgrade is the one! Smew, Hen Harrier, Red, & Black Kite, White-tailed 🦅, LE Owl, Middle Spotted, & Black Wood; Peregrine, GG Shrike, Crested Lark, Meadow, & Water Pipit, Corn Bunting🌳 Enjoyable full-day & half-day private bird drives ▶️ surl.li/lhmboq

Mid-October #birding the seasonally inundated forests of English oak, ash, and elm @ #ObedskaBara NR in the #SavaRiver floodplain, 50 min west of #Belgrade: Middle Spotted & Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Marsh Tit, Willow Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Short-toed Treecreeper, Eurasian Wren

Mid-October #birding the #Beljarica Foreland #ForlandLeveObaleDunava Reserve, #Belgrade: Redshank, Spotted Redshank, Sparrowhawk, Marsh Harrier, WT Eagle, Green Wood, 📷GG Shrike, Willow Warbler, Mistle Thrush, Stonechat, Corn Bunting #OctoberBigDay 2025 🔗 ebird.org/octoberbigday #birdsuniteourworld

#BirdIDGuide #BookReview – #Birds of #Ecuador by Freile & Restall: As we #birders like to see ourselves, we aren’t tourists but #travellers, even #explorers. And we do not carry tourist guides with us, we carry #fieldguides ▶️ 10000birds.com/birds-of-ecu... #birding #BirdBooks #HelmFieldGuides

#Birding #Ecuador sailing down the #RioNapo from the town of Coca (✈️) into #Yasuni NP: 610sp, Hoatzin, Zigzag Heron, Coppery-chested Jacamar, Crimson-crested Woodpecker, Lanceolated Monklet, Paradise Tanager, Amazonian Motmot; cabins with air-con & private bathroom, excursion boats; Jun-Jul floods 🦜

#Birding #Peru, sailing up the Rios #Ucayali & #Maranon from #Iquitos (✈️) into #PacayaSamiria, floodplain reserve about the size of Slovenia—600sp, 200birds/week: Nocturnal & Wattled Curassows, Pompadour Cotinga, Festive Parrot; cabins with air-con & private bathroom, excursion boats; Mar-Apr floods

#Birding #Peru, #ManuNP with 1025sp, 450sp/2weeks, along the paved 170km of #ManuRoad, from 4000m asl in the #Andes to 500m in the Rio Madre de Dios basin of #Amazonia, or from #Wayqecha to #CockoftheRockLodge with the Cock-of-the-Rock lek, & #ManuBiolodge with a parrot clay lick; timing May-Sep🌴🦜🦜🦜

#Birding #Peru #Inkaterra #ReservaAmazonica, adjacent to #Tambopata lowland rainforest NR: 540sp. in the hotel grounds, Black-faced Cotinga, Red-bellied Macaw, Pale-winged Trumpeter, Pavonine Quetzal; canopy walk, access to #LakeSandoval; fly 30min Cuzco to #PuertoMaldonado + 45min by boat; Aug-Sep🦜

#Birding #CristalinoJungleLodge in southern #Amazonia, #Brazil: private 12K ha reserve, 596sp, 55 #endemic, 250sp/week, Cryptic Forest-falcon, Blue-and-yellow, Red-and-green & Scarlet Macaws, Brown-banded Puffbird, Pompadour & Spangled Cotingas; 1hr drive + 20min by boat from #AltaFloresta; Oct-Nov🦜

Birding #Brazil, floating #EcolodgeDaBarra @ the upper #RioTapajos, S #Amazonia, 2hrs flight from #Manaus (baggage allowance of 15kg): 500sp, Dark-winged Trumpeter, Bald Parrot, Pavonine Quetzal, Rufous-necked Puffbird, Pale-faced Antbird, White-tailed Cotinga, Rondonia Bushbird; timing Sep to Nov🌴🦜

#Birding #Amazonia, #Brazil, sailing up the #RioNegro from #Manaus: #Anavilhanas NP 🌴 Wire-tailed Manakin, Amazonian Umbrellabird, Agami Heron, + localised Klages's, & Leaden Antwren; #JauNP 🌴🦜 Harpy Eagle, Sunbittern, Blue-and-Yellow, & Scarlet Macaw, Capuchinbird, Pompadour Cotinga; timing Sep-Oct

#Birding the lowland rainforest of #Sarapiqui, #CostaRica: #SelvaVerde Lodge, 470sp, Sunbittern, Yellow-throated, & Keel-billed Toucan, Great Green Macaw, Black-faced Grosbeak, Gray-necked Wood-Rail, White-winged Becard, Violet Crowned Woodnymph, Acadian Flycatcher; 2hrs from San Jose; Aug-Oct 🌴🌴🦜🦥🌴

#Birding #CanoNegro, #CostaRica, a shallow 10K ha lagoon surrounded by rainforest, grassland and marshes, 450sp.: Jabiru, Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture, Spot-breasted Wren, Boat-billed Heron, Green Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill, American Pygmy Kingfisher; #CanoNegroLodge; 4hrs drive from San Jose; Dec-Apr🌴

#Birding #Tortuguero NP on the Caribbean coast, #CostaRica 350sp, Tiger, & Agami Herons, White-fronted Nunbird, all 6 kingfishers, Lineated Woodpecker, Sungrebe, Great Green Macaw, Great Potoo; 📷 #LagunaLodge; from San Jose drive to Pavona, plus boat ride, 6hrs, or 30min by plane; timing Aug to Oct🌴

R.I.P. Jane Goodall

#Birding Sungai Kapur Reserve rainforest & mangroves, #Borneo #Malaysia 📷 #UtanRainforestLodge 250sp: Bornean Ground-Cuckoo, Bornean Crested Fireback, Rhinoceros, &Helmeted Hornbill, Sabah Partridge, Blue-Headed Pitta, Storm's Stork, Great Argus,🦧🐘; 2.5hr east of #LahadDatu✈️; fruiting season May-Oct

#Birding #Kinabatangan River #Borneo #Malaysia 📷 #KinabatanganWetlandsResort freshwater swamps & mangrove forest 250sp., 100sp/3days: Black, & Rhinoceros Hornbill, White-fronted Falconet, Buffy Fish-owl, Large, & Sunda Frogmouth, 10 primate sp., 🦧🐘; 1.5hr by speedboat from #Sandakan ✈️; Jun-Sep

#Kinabatangan has been officially recognised as #Malaysia newest UNESCO #BiosphereReserve: 414K hectares, 315 bird species (incl. 8 hornbill sp.), 127 mammal sp. (incl. orangutans, Bornean elephants, and proboscis monkeys) #birding 🐘 #Borneo 🌴🌴 www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/267433/...

Go #birding #Serbia 376 sp.; 200+ sp. areas: 📷 #ObedskaBara 1, #Beljarica 2, #TamisRiver fish farms 3, #Ečka fish farm 4, #LabudovoOkno (Dubovac–Ram) 6 wetlands; 150+ sp.: 📷 #DeliblatoSands 5, 📷 #Djerdap 7 & #Trešnjica 8 gorges; single-base: #Belgrade; best Apr–Jun & Aug–Sep ▶️ surl.li/lhmboq #WTD25

Late September #birding oak, poplar and willow forests of the #ObedskaBara in the #SavaRiver floodplain, west of #Belgrade, #Serbia: White-tailed Eagle, Middle Spotted, Great Spotted, & Green Woodpecker, Eurasian Hobby, Marsh Tit, Willow Warbler, Short-toed Treecreeper, Hawfinch #birdwatching 🌳🌳🌳

#Birding #Kasane 480sp. #Botswana longest list, 3days/200sp: mixed broad-leaved & riverine woodland, floodplains, #ChobeRiver: Pennant-winged Nightjar, Racket-tailed Roller, Slaty Egret, Bradfield's Hornbills, Narina Trogon, African Finfoot; #ChobeGameLodge, 1:45hrs flight from Johannesburg; Nov-Apr